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Werner Herzog Movies on Streaming (Summer 2026)

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A listing of Werner Herzog-directed films available on subscription and free ad/library-supported streaming services, based on the available service filters on Letterboxd as of 7/1/2026.

I compiled this for my <a href="https://boxd.it/PPFGu">inaugural 2026 Werner HerzAugust challenge</a>, taking place between Aug 1 and Aug 31 of this year. I made it to help participants find Herzog's films across multiple popular streaming services, but hopefully this will be useful to other folks just exploring his filmography.

I've arranged the titles in order of availability; You can filter by your favorite services, or look at the notes to see the full list of services for each title.

Free services Tubi and Kanopy appear to have the biggest selection of Herzog titles right now, followed by Amazon Prime, Shout Factory TV, Hoopla and Pluto TV.

(Availability of certain titles on Kanopy and Hoopla can vary depending on your local library system)

There's also some more exclusively-distributed recent works on Netflix, Disney Plus/Hulu, and MUBI, so don't count those services out necessarily.

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The Dark Glow of the Mountains (1985) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
Gasherbrum - Der leuchtende Berg
★ 8.0 (7 ratings) director: 沃纳·赫尔佐格 actor: 赖因霍尔德·梅斯纳 / Hans Kammerlander …
other title: 发光的山 / Gasherbrum - Der leuchtende Berg …
Werner Herzog follows mountaineers Hans Kammerlander and Reinhold Messner during their expedition into climbing the Gasherbrum mountains, which has some of the most difficult peaks to be conquered, and they'll do it without the use of oxygen tanks. Herzog also takes some time to hear about their past experiences with other mountains, their personal tragedies and the reasons why they are so involved with such activity.
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The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
Jeder für sich und Gott gegen alle
★ 8.7 (119 ratings) director: 沃纳·赫尔佐格 actor: 布鲁诺·斯列斯坦 / 瓦尔特·拉登加斯特 …
other title: 하늘은 스스로 돕는 자를 돕지 않는다 / カスパー・ハウザーの謎 …
The film follows Kaspar Hauser (Bruno S.), who lived the first seventeen years of his life chained in a tiny cellar with only a toy horse to occupy his time, devoid of all human contact except for a man who wears a black overcoat and top hat who feeds him.
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Fata Morgana (1971) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
Fata Morgana
★ 7.9 (10 ratings) director: 沃纳·赫尔佐格 actor: 洛特艾斯纳 / Eugen Des Montagnes
other title: 创世纪 / 海市蜃楼 …
Shot under extreme conditions and inspired by Mayan creation theory, the film contemplates the illusion of reality and the possibility of capturing for the camera something which is not there. It is about the mirages of nature—and the nature of mirage.
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Heart of Glass (1976) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
Herz aus Glas
★ 7.9 (24 ratings) director: 沃纳·赫尔佐格 actor: 约瑟夫·贝尔比奇 / Stefan Güttler …
other title: 유리의 심장 / ガラスの心 …
A small Bavarian village is renowned for its "Ruby Glass" glass blowing works. When the foreman of the works dies suddenly without revealing the secret of the Ruby Glass, the town slides into a deep depression, and the owner of the glassworks becomes obssessed with the lost secret.
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How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck (1978) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
How much Wood would a Woodchuck chuck... - Beobachtungen zu einer neuen Sprache
director: 沃纳·赫尔佐格 actor: 沃纳·赫尔佐格 / Steve Liptay …
other title: 一只土拨鼠能啃掉多少 / How much Wood would a Woodchuck chuck... - Beobachtungen zu einer neuen Sprache …
A documentary short examining the language and performance of auctioneering, filmed at the World Livestock Auctioneer Championship in Pennsylvania.
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Queen of the Desert (2015) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
Queen of the Desert
★ 4.9 (15 ratings) director: 沃纳·赫尔佐格 actor: 詹姆斯·弗兰科 / 妮可·基德曼 …
other title: 沙漠女王 / 沙漠女皇 …
A chronicle of Gertrude Bell's life, a traveler, writer, archaeologist, explorer, cartographer, and political attaché for the British Empire in the Near and Middle East at the dawn of the twentieth century. Her knowledge of the tribal leaders is used by the British to establish the Kingdoms of Iraq, Jordan and Saudi Arabia.
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Where the Green Ants Dream (1984) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
Wo die grünen Ameisen träumen
★ 7.4 (10 ratings) director: 沃纳·赫尔佐格 actor: 布鲁斯·斯宾斯 / Wandjuk Marika …
other title: 绿蚂蚁做梦的地方 / Wo die grünen Ameisen träumen …
The Australian Aborigines (in this film anyway) believe that this is the place where the green ants go to dream, and that if their dreams are disturbed, it will bring down disaster on us all. The Aborigines' belief is not shared by a giant mining company, which wants to tear open the soil and search for uranium.
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Woyzeck (1979) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
Woyzeck
★ 7.7 (30 ratings) director: 沃纳·赫尔佐格 actor: 克劳斯·金斯基 / 埃娃·马特斯 …
other title: 보이체크 / ヴォイツェック …
Having fathered an illegitimate child with his lover, Marie, feckless soldier Franz Woyzeck takes odd jobs around his small town to provide some extra money for them. One of them is volunteering for experiments conducted by a local doctor, who puts Woyzeck on a diet of peas. This serves to drive him close to madness, and the discovery that Marie is involved in an affair with the local drum major exacerbates the situation. Pushed too far, Woyzeck resorts to violence.
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Family Romance, LLC. (2019) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
Family Romance, LLC.
★ 6.9 (94 ratings) director: 沃纳·赫尔佐格 actor: 永井堇 / 石井裕一 …
other title: 家庭罗曼史有限公司 / 패밀리 로맨스 …
Love is a business at Family Romance, a company that rents human stand-ins for any occasion. Founder Yuichi Ishii helps make his clients’ dreams come true. But when the mother of 12-year-old Mahiro hires Ishii to impersonate her missing father, the line between acting and reality threatens to blur.
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Ghosts of the Elephants (2025) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
Ghost Elephants
director: 沃纳·赫尔佐格 actor: 沃纳·赫尔佐格 / Steve Boyes …
other title: Ghost Elephants / 幽灵大象 …
Set in Angola’s mist-shrouded highlands, it follows three KhoiSan master trackers on a spiritual quest to rediscover the legendary "ghost elephants" of Lisima—creatures presumed lost by technology but remembered in ancestral trance, ritual, and memory. The film is both a captivating environmental odyssey and a poetic meditation on culture, identity, and belonging.
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Huie's Sermon (1981) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
Huie's Predigt
director: 沃纳·赫尔佐格 actor: Huie Rogers
other title: 布道家 / Huie's Predigt …
Reverend Huie Rogers is a preacher at the Bible Way Church of Our Lord Jesus Christ in Brooklyn. He is the topic of this short film, during which launches into an epic call-and-response denunciation of human hubris, greed, corruption and failure. The use of lengthy shots present it less like a sermon and more a performance, and induce an almost trance-like state.
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Meeting Gorbachev (2018) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
Meeting Gorbachev
★ 7.8 (28 ratings) director: 沃纳·赫尔佐格 actor: 米哈伊尔·戈尔巴乔夫 / 沃纳·赫尔佐格 …
other title: 会见戈尔巴乔夫 / 荷索会戈巴卓夫(港) …
Mikhail Gorbachev, former president of the Soviet Union, sits down with filmmaker Werner Herzog to discuss his many achievements. Topics include the talks to reduce nuclear weapons, the reunification of Germany and the dissolution of his country.
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