Directing

—		Dead Man's Wire … Director
—		The Conquest of Mexico … Director
—		Fordlandia … Director

2024

… Director

2022

… Director

2020

… Director

2019		Family Romance, LLC … Director
2019		Meeting Gorbachev … Director
2019		Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin … Director

2016		Salt and Fire … Director
2016		Into the Inferno … Director
2016		Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World … Director

2015

… Director

2013

… Director

2012

… Director

2011		Into the Abyss … Director
2011		Ode to the Dawn of Man … Director

2010		Cave of Forgotten Dreams … Director
2010		Happy People: A Year in the Taiga … Director

2009		My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done … Director
2009		Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans … Director
2009		La Bohème … Director

2008

… Stage Director

2007

… Director

2006

… Director

2005		The Wild Blue Yonder … Director
2005		Grizzly Man … Director

2004

… Director

2003

… Director

2002		Ten Thousand Years Older … Director
2002		Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet … Director

2001		Invincible … Director
2001		Pilgrimage … Director

2000		Tannhäuser … Stage Director
2000		Wings of Hope … Director

1999

… Director

1997

… Director

1996

… Director

1995

… Director

1993

… Director

1992

… Director

1991		Film Lesson … Director
1991		Jag Mandir: The Eccentric Private Theatre of the Maharaja of Udaipur … Director
1991		Scream of Stone … Director

1990		Echoes from a Sombre Empire … Director
1990		Lohengrin: Bayreuth Festival … Director

1989		Wodaabe: Herdsmen of the Sun … Director
1989		Giovanna d'Arco … Director

1988		The Gauls … Director
1988		The French as Seen by… … Director

1987

… Director

1986

… Director

1985

… Director

1984		Ballad of the Little Soldier … Director
1984		Where the Green Ants Dream … Director

1983

… Director

1982

… Director

1981

… Director

1979		The Making of 'Nosferatu' … Director
1979		Woyzeck … Director
1979		Nosferatu the Vampyre … Director

1977		La Soufrière: Waiting for an Inevitable Catastrophe … Director
1977		Stroszek … Director

1976		Heart of Glass … Director
1976		How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck … Director
1976		No One Will Play with Me … Director

1974		The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser … Director
1974		The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner … Director

1972

… Director

1971		Land of Silence and Darkness … Director
1971		Fata Morgana … Director
1971		Handicapped Future … Director

1970		Even Dwarfs Started Small … Director
1970		The Flying Doctors of East Africa … Director

1969

… Director

1968		Signs of Life … Director
1968		Last Words … Director

1967

… Director

1962

… Director

Acting

—		Shards of Cinema and Philosophy as Self
—		Tales from the Opera as Director
—		Jösta Hagelbäck & Werner Herzog as Self
—		No Mr. Werner Herzog, this isn't your Cinématon as Self
—		Werner Herzog, Filmmaker as Self

2024		The Fire Within: Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft as Narrator (voice)
2024		Celebrating the Rice Media Center as Self (archival footage)
2024		Orion and the Dark as Narrator (voice)

2023

as Narrator (voice)

2022		Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer as Self
2022		Tegoyo as Self (Voice)
2022		Last Exit: Space as Narrator (voice)
2022		Nosferatu: A Film Like a Vampire as Self (archive footage)

2021		Falling - Q&A as Self - Host
2021		The Extravagant Little Life of Jean-Claude D. Dreyfus as Self (archive footage)
2021		Hannelore Elsner: More Than One Life as Self (archive footage)
2021		Meteor: Sohrab Shahid Saless as Self

2020		The Andinist as The Painter (Narrator)
2020		Dear Werner (Walking on Cinema) as Narrator (voice)
2020		A Life for Movies: Lotte Eisner as Self
2020		Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds as Self - Narrator (voice)
2020		Wim Wenders, Desperado as Self
2020		AGFA Mystery Mixtape #2: Later in L.A. as Self

2019		90 Years of the Music Box Theatre as Self
2019		Tattoo Uprising as Self
2019		Meeting Gorbachev as Self
2019		Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin as Self - Interviewer and Narrator (voice)
2019		Jihad in Hollywood as Self

2018		Manaslu: Mountain of Souls as Self
2018		Paradox Bullets as Narrator (voice)
2018		The Great Buster: A Celebration as Self
2018		I'm a Soldier as Self
2018		Film Beyond Cinema: The Dumpster Kid Experiment and Other Utopias as Self

2017		Ballad of a Righteous Merchant as Self
2017		The Man Who Killed John Wayne as Self (archive footage)

2016		Salt and Fire as Man with One Story (uncredited)
2016		Into the Inferno as Narrator (voice)
2016		Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World as Self
2016		Jihad in Hollywood as Self

2015

as Perfect Being (voice)

2014		Penguins of Madagascar as Documentary Filmmaker (voice)
2014		Lemonade War as Neighborhood Hero
2014		Alfonso Sansone: Producer by Chance as Self (archive footage)
2014		Werner Herzog: On Death Row and Life as a Director as Self
2014		Life Itself as Self - Filmmaker

2013		The Unbelievers as Self
2013		Werner Herzog and Errol Morris on 'The Act of Killing' as Self
2013		An Appreciation of Les Blank by Werner Herzog as Self
2013		Home from Home – Chronicle of a Vision as Alexander von Humboldt
2013		Mistaken for Strangers as Self (uncredited)
2013		Jack Reacher: When the Man Comes Around as Self

2012		Jack Reacher as Zec Chelovek
2012		Close Up as Self (archive footage)
2012		10 Questions for Werner Herzog as Self
2012		The Killers: Unstaged as Self
2012		Dinotasia as Narrator (voice)

2011		Dubai Winter Diary VI: Light and Reflections as Self
2011		I, I, I José Lewgoy as Self
2011		Into the Abyss as Narrator (voice)
2011		On Borrowed Time as Self
2011		Champions: A Comic Tale as Self
2011		Hans Zimmer: The Sound of Hollywood as Self

2010		Werner Herzog Defends Dade as Self
2010		Cave of Forgotten Dreams as Narrator (voice)
2010		Anyone who dares will take the cold off their horse as Self
2010		When Herzog Rescued Phoenix as Narrator (voice)
2010		Happy People: A Year in the Taiga as Narrator (voice)
2010		Behind the Madness: The Making of My Son, My Son as Self
2010		I am My Films, Part 2... 30 Years Later as Self

2009		Plastic Bag as Plastic Bag (voice)
2009		The Lonely

2008		Capturing Reality as Self
2008		40 x 15: The Forty Years of the Directors' Fortnight as Self
2008		BLAST! as Narrator (voice)
2008		Bierbichler as Self
2008		Counter Shot: Departure of the Filmmakers as Self
2008		Back to Room 666 as Self (archive footage)
2008		Mister Lonely as Father Umbrillo

2007		Making of a True Story: Rescue Dawn as Self
2007		Pierre Rissient: Man of Cinema as Self
2007		Encounters at the End of the World as Narrator (voice)
2007		Munich (Filmfest) Stories - 25 years of Munich Filmfest as Self
2007		The Grand as The German
2007		All In This Tea

2006		50 Films to See Before You Die as Self
2006		Walking to Werner as Self (voice)

2005		In the Edges: The 'Grizzly Man' Session as Self
2005		Q & A with Jana Sevcikova and Werner Herzog as Self
2005		Perpetuum Mobile: Voices in the Blue Space as Self
2005		Grizzly Man as Self
2005		Dreams and Burdens as Self

2004		Incident at Loch Ness as Self
2004		The White Diamond as Narrator (voice)
2004		The Best of Tromadance Film Festival: Volume 3 as Self (voice) ("Dribble" short)
2004		Dribble as Self (voice)

2003

as Narrator (voice)

2002		Strawberryland as Turnlehrer
2002		The Boxing Prince as Self

2001

as Self

2000		The Last Documentary as Self
2000		Klaus Kinski: I'm not an actor as Self
2000		Wings of Hope as Self
2000		The Ball Is a Scumbag as Self

1999		Julien Donkey-Boy as Father
1999		A Brief History of Errol Morris as Self
1999		My Best Fiend as Self
1999		In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin as Self

1998

as Face

1997

as Narrator (voice)

1996		Stardust Stricken: Mohsen Makhmalbaf, A Portrait as Self
1996		The Transformation of the World Into Music as Self

1995		Gesualdo: Death for Five Voices as Narrator (voice)
1995		Burning Heart

1993		Dangerous Game as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1993		Bells from the Deep as Narrator (voice)

1992

as Narrator (voice)

1991		Film Lesson as Self
1991		Jag Mandir: The Eccentric Private Theatre of the Maharaja of Udaipur as Narrator (voice)
1991		SnowwhiteRosered as Self
1991		Scream of Stone as TV-Regisseur

1990		Echoes from a Sombre Empire as Self
1990		Hard to Be a God as Mita / Richard
1990		Russian adventure. Peter Fleischmann is filming "It's not easy to be a god." as Self

1989		Wodaabe: Herdsmen of the Sun as Narrator (voice)
1989		Bride of the Orient as Businger
1989		The Heart and the Legs as Self
1989		To the End of the World... and Then a Little Bit Further as Self

1987

as Self

1986

as Self

1985		Tokyo-Ga as Self
1985		The Dark Glow of the Mountain as Self (voice)

1984		Ballad of the Little Soldier as Self (voice)
1984		Where the Green Ants Dream as Lawyer (uncredited)

1983

as The Father

1982		Burden of Dreams as Self - Filmmaker
1982		Room 666 as Self
1982		The South Bank Show: Werner Herzog as Self

1981

as Narrator (voice)

1980		Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe as Self
1980		Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers as Self - Film Director: Nosferatu

1979		The Making of 'Nosferatu' as Self
1979		I Am My Films: A Portrait of Werner Herzog as Self
1979		Scénario de 'Sauve qui peut la vie' as Self (archive footage)
1979		Nosferatu the Vampyre as Hand and Feet in Box with Rats (uncredited)

1977		La Soufrière: Waiting for an Inevitable Catastrophe as Narrator (voice)
1977		Journey Through History as Self

1976		Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema as Self
1976		Heart of Glass as Glass Transporter
1976		How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck as Self

1975

as Self

1974

as Self

1971

as Hurenmörder

1968		Signs of Life as Soldier (uncredited)
1968		Die Erben von Papas Kino

1967

Writing

—		The hunger in the world explained to my son … Writer
—		The Conquest of Mexico … Writer

2024

… Writer

2022

… Screenplay

2020

… Writer

2019		Family Romance, LLC … Writer
2019		Meeting Gorbachev … Writer
2019		Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin … Writer

2016		Salt and Fire … Writer
2016		Into the Inferno … Writer
2016		Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World … Writer

2015

… Writer

2011

… Writer

2010		Cave of Forgotten Dreams … Screenplay
2010		Happy People: A Year in the Taiga … Writer

2009

… Screenplay

2007

… Writer

2006

… Author

2005		The Wild Blue Yonder … Screenplay
2005		Grizzly Man … Screenplay

2004

… Screenplay

2003

… Writer

2002

… Writer

2001

… Writer

2000

… Writer

1999

… Writer

1997

… Writer

1996

… Writer

1995

… Writer

1993

… Writer

1992

… Writer

1991

… Screenplay

1990

… Writer

1989

… Writer

1987

… Screenplay

1986

… Writer

1985

… Writer

1984		Ballad of the Little Soldier … Writer
1984		Where the Green Ants Dream … Writer

1982

… Screenplay

1981

… Writer

1980

… Writer

1979		Woyzeck … Screenplay
1979		Nosferatu the Vampyre … Writer

1977

… Screenplay

1976		Heart of Glass … Writer
1976		No One Will Play with Me … Writer

1974		The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser … Screenplay
1974		The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner … Screenplay

1972

… Writer

1971		Land of Silence and Darkness … Screenplay
1971		Fata Morgana … Screenplay
1971		Handicapped Future … Writer

1970		Even Dwarfs Started Small … Screenplay
1970		The Flying Doctors of East Africa … Writer

1969

… Writer

1968		Signs of Life … Writer
1968		Last Words … Screenplay

1967

… Screenplay

1962

… Screenplay

Production

2023

… Executive Producer

2022		Theatre of Thought … Executive Producer
2022		Flores del precipicio … Producer
2022		Last Exit: Space … Executive Producer
2022		El Poso … Producer

2019

… Consulting Producer

2018

… Consulting Producer

2017

… Executive Producer

2016		Salt and Fire … Producer
2016		Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World … Producer

2015

… Executive Producer

2014

… Executive Producer

2012

… Executive Producer

2011

… Producer

2010

… Executive Producer

2003

… Producer

2001

… Producer

1992

… Executive Producer

1991

… Producer

1990

… Producer

1987

… Producer

1985

… Producer

1984		Ballad of the Little Soldier … Producer
1984		Where the Green Ants Dream … Producer

1982

… Producer

1979

… Producer

1977

… Producer

1976		Heart of Glass … Producer
1976		How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck … Producer

1974

… Producer

1972

… Producer

1971		Land of Silence and Darkness … Producer
1971		Handicapped Future … Producer

1970

… Producer

1969

… Producer

1968		Signs of Life … Producer
1968		Last Words … Producer

1962

… Producer

Crew

2022

… Creative Consultant

2018

… Thanks

2016

… Thanks

2011

… Cinematography

2010

… Thanks … Technical Advisor

2007

… Creative Consultant

2005

… Thanks

1971		Land of Silence and Darkness … Sound Recordist
1971		Handicapped Future … Sound Recordist

Sound

2011

… Sound

2007

… Sound

1977

… Sound Engineer

1970

… Sound Recordist

1969

… Sound

1962

… Sound

Editing

2003

… Editor

1967

… Editor

1962

… Editor

Camera

2019

… Camera Operator … Director of Photography