







| 2026 | Ghost Elephants | Narrator (voice) |
| 2025 | Sirena | — |
| 2024 | About a Hero | — |
| The Fire Within: A Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft | Narrator (voice) | |
| Celebrating the Rice Media Center | Self (archival footage) | |
| Orion và Bóng Tối | Narrator (voice) | |
| 2023 | The Arc of Oblivion | Narrator (voice) |
| 2022 | Werner Herzog - Radikaler Träumer | Self |
| Tegoyo | Self (Voice) | |
| Last Exit: Space | Narrator (voice) | |
| Nosferatu – Ein Film wie ein Vampir | Self (archive footage) | |
| 2021 | L'extravagante petite vie de Jean-Claude D. Dreyfus | Self (archive footage) |
| Hannelore Elsner - Ohne Spiel ist mir das Leben zu ernst | Self (archive footage) | |
| Ein Leben für den Film - Lotte Eisner | Self | |
| ستاره دنباله دار: سهراب شهید ثالث | Self | |
| 2020 | El Andinista | The Painter (Narrator) |
| Dear Werner (Walking on Cinema) | Narrator (voice) | |
| Quả Cầu Lửa: Những Vị Khách Từ Vũ Trụ - Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds | Self - Narrator (voice) | |
| Wim Wenders, Desperado | Self | |
| AGFA Mystery Mixtape #2: Later in L.A. | (archive footage) | |
| The AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault | (archive footage) | |
| 2019 | 90 Years of the Music Box Theatre | Self |
| Tattoo Uprising | Self | |
| Meeting Gorbachev | Self | |
| Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin | Self - Interviewer and Narrator (voice) | |
| Jihad in Hollywood | Self | |
| 2018 | Manaslu - Berg der Seelen | Self |
| Paradox Bullets | Narrator (voice) | |
| The Great Buster: A Celebration | Self | |
| 我是一个电影战士 | Self | |
| Der Film verlässt das Kino: Vom Kübelkind-Experiment und anderen Utopien | Self | |
| 2017 | Cien años con Juan Rulfo | Self |
| Ballad of a Righteous Merchant | Self | |
| O Homem que Matou John Wayne | Self (archive footage) | |
| 2016 | Salt and Fire | Man with One Story (uncredited) |
| Into the Inferno | Self | |
| Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World | Self | |
| Jihad in Hollywood | Self | |
| 2015 | Thế Giới Kỳ Quái | Perfect Being (voice) |
| 2014 | Biệt Đội Cánh Cụt Vùng Madagascar | Documentary Filmmaker (voice) |
| Atari: Game Over | Self (archival) | |
| Lemonade War | Neighborhood Hero | |
| Alfonso Sansone - produttore per caso | Self (archive footage) | |
| Werner Herzog: On Death Row and Life as a Director | Self | |
| Life Itself | Self - Filmmaker | |
| 2013 | The Unbelievers | Self |
| Werner Herzog and Errol Morris on 'The Act of Killing' | Self | |
| An Appreciation of Les Blank by Werner Herzog | Self | |
| Die andere Heimat - Chronik einer Sehnsucht | Alexander von Humboldt | |
| Mistaken for Strangers | Self (uncredited) | |
| Jack Reacher: When the Man Comes Around | Self | |
| 2012 | Jack Reacher: Phát Súng Cuối Cùng | Zec Chelovek |
| Erdbeerland | Turnlehrer | |
| Close Up | Self (archive footage) | |
| 10 Questions for Werner Herzog | Self | |
| The Killers: Unstaged | Self | |
| Carnet de Dubaï Hiver VI: Lumière et Reflets | Self | |
| Dinotasia | Narrator (voice) | |
| Non, monsieur Werner Herzog, ceci n'est pas votre Cinématon | Self | |
| 2011 | Eu eu eu José Lewgoy | Self |
| Into the Abyss | Narrator (voice) | |
| On Borrowed Time | Self | |
| Champions: Μια αστεία ιστορία | Self | |
| Hans Zimmer - Der Sound für Hollywood | Self | |
| 2010 | Werner Herzog Defends Dade | Self |
| Hang Nơi Những Giấc Mơ Bị Lãng Quên | Narrator (voice) | |
| Wer sich traut, reißt die Kälte vom Pferd | Self | |
| When Herzog Rescued Phoenix | Narrator (voice) | |
| Durch die Nacht mit Harmony Korine und Gaspar Noé | Self | |
| Happy People: A Year in the Taiga | Narrator (voice) | |
| Behind the Madness: The Making of My Son, My Son | Self | |
| Was ich bin sind meine Filme - Teil 2... nach 30 Jahren | Self | |
| The Making of Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans | Himself | |
| 2009 | Plastic Bag | Plastic Bag (voice) |
| The Lonely | — | |
| 2008 | Capturing Reality | Self |
| 40 x 15: The Forty Years of the Directors' Fortnight | Self | |
| BLAST! | Narrator (voice) | |
| Bierbichler | Self | |
| Gegenschuss - Aufbruch der Filmemacher | Self | |
| Mister Lonely | Father Umbrillo | |
| Back to Room 666 | Self (archive footage) | |
| 2007 | Making of a True Story: Rescue Dawn | Self |
| Pierre Rissient: Man of Cinema | Self | |
| Encounters at the End of the World | Narrator (voice) | |
| Münchner (Filmfest) Geschichten - 25 Jahre Filmfest München | Self | |
| The Grand | The German | |
| All In This Tea | — | |
| 2006 | 50 Films to See Before You Die | Self |
| Walking to Werner | Self (voice) | |
| 2005 | In the Edges: The 'Grizzly Man' Session | Self |
| Q & A with Jana Sevcikova and Werner Herzog | Self | |
| Perpetuum mobile - Voces en el espacio azul | Self | |
| Grizzly Man | Self / Narrator (voice) | |
| Dreams and Burdens | Self | |
| 2004 | Incident at Loch Ness | Self |
| The White Diamond | Narrator (voice) | |
| The Best of Tromadance Film Festival: Volume 3 | Self (voice) ("Dribble" short) | |
| Dribble | Self (voice) | |
| 2003 | Rad der Zeit | Narrator (voice) |
| 2002 | Der Boxprinz | Self |
| 2001 | The 100 Greatest Films | Self |
| 2000 | Der letzte Dokumentarfilm | Self |
| Klaus Kinski - Ich bin kein Schauspieler | Self | |
| Der Ball ist ein Sauhund | Self | |
| 1999 | Julianes Sturz in den Dschungel | Self |
| Julien Donkey-Boy | Father | |
| A Brief History of Errol Morris | Self | |
| Mein liebster Feind | Self | |
| In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin | Self | |
| 1998 | Nơi Giấc Mơ Trở Thành Hiện Thực | Face |
| 1997 | Little Dieter Needs to Fly | Narrator (voice) |
| 1996 | Stardust Stricken: Mohsen Makhmalbaf, A Portrait | Self |
| Die Verwandlung der Welt in Musik: Bayreuth vor der Premiere | Self | |
| 1995 | Tod für fünf Stimmen | Narrator (voice) |
| Brennendes Herz | — | |
| 1993 | Dangerous Game | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| Glocken aus der Tiefe | Narrator (voice) | |
| 1992 | Lektionen in Finsternis | Self - Narrator (voice) |
| 1991 | Jag Mandir: Das exzentrische Privattheater des Maharadscha von Udaipur | Narrator (voice) |
| Schneeweißrosenrot | Self | |
| Cerro Torre: Schrei aus Stein | TV-Regisseur | |
| 1990 | Echos aus einem düsteren Reich | Self |
| Es ist nicht leicht, ein Gott zu sein | Mita / Richard | |
| Russisches Abenteuer. Peter Fleischmann dreht "Es ist nicht leicht, ein Gott zu sein." | Self | |
| 1989 | Wodaabe – Die Hirten der Sonne | Narrator (voice) |
| Gekauftes Glück | Businger | |
| Il cuore e le gambe (Herzog) | Self | |
| Bis ans Ende... und dann noch weiter. Die ekstatische Welt des Filmemachers Werner Herzog | Self | |
| 1988 | Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe | Self |
| 1987 | Location Africa | Self |
| 1986 | Werner Herzog: Filmemacher | Self |
| 1985 | Tokyo-Ga | Self |
| Gasherbrum - Der leuchtende Berg | Self (voice) | |
| 1984 | Ballade vom kleinen Soldaten | Self (voice) |
| Wo die grünen Ameisen träumen | Lawyer (uncredited) | |
| 1983 | Man of Flowers | The Father |
| Glaube und Währung: Dr. Gene Scott, Fernsehprediger | Narrator (voice) | |
| 1982 | Burden of Dreams | Self - Filmmaker |
| Chambre 666 | Self | |
| 1980 | Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers | Self - Film Director: Nosferatu |
| 1979 | The Making of Nosferatu | Self |
| Was ich bin, sind meine Filme | Self | |
| Quelques remarques sur la réalisation et la production du film 'Sauve qui peut (la vie)' | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | |
| 1977 | La Soufrière: Warten auf eine unausweichliche Katastrophe | Narrator (voice) |
| Viaggio nella storia | Self | |
| 1976 | Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema | Self |
| Herz aus Glas | Glass Transporter | |
| How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck: Beobachtungen zu einer neuen Sprache | Self | |
| 1975 | Lost in the Garden of the World | Self |
| 1974 | Geschichten vom Kübelkind | Hurenmörder |
| Die große Ekstase des Bildschnitzers Steiner | Self | |
| 1971 | Behinderte Zukunft | Interviewer (voice) (uncredited) |
| 1968 | Lebenszeichen | Soldier (uncredited) |
| Die Erben von Papas Kino | — | |
| 1967 | Neuer Deutscher Film Report | — |
| 2026 | Ghost Elephants | Director |
| Ghost Elephants | Writer | |
| Ghost Elephants | Producer | |
| Ghost Elephants | Screenplay | |
| 2025 | Felicidad | Producer |
| Mi casa amarilla | Consulting Editor | |
| Reeling | Executive Producer | |
| 2024 | Theater of Thought | Director |
| Theater of Thought | Executive Producer | |
| Theater of Thought | Screenplay | |
| The End | Executive Producer | |
| The Fire Within: A Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft | Director | |
| The Fire Within: A Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft | Writer | |
| 2023 | The Arc of Oblivion | Executive Producer |
| 2022 | Notas de un Dromedario | Creative Consultant |
| Flores del precipicio | Producer | |
| Last Exit: Space | Executive Producer | |
| El Poso | Producer | |
| 2020 | Quả Cầu Lửa: Những Vị Khách Từ Vũ Trụ - Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds | Director |
| Quả Cầu Lửa: Những Vị Khách Từ Vũ Trụ - Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds | Writer | |
| 2019 | Family Romance, LLC | Director |
| Family Romance, LLC | Writer | |
| Family Romance, LLC | Director of Photography | |
| Family Romance, LLC | Camera Operator | |
| Meeting Gorbachev | Director | |
| Meeting Gorbachev | Writer | |
| Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin | Director | |
| Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin | Writer | |
| Love Birds | Consulting Producer | |
| Escena final | Executive Producer | |
| 2018 | Del Arco Vacío | Thanks |
| Tutto il mondo è paese | Consulting Producer | |
| The Golden Gate | Executive Producer | |
| 2017 | A Gray State | Executive Producer |
| 2016 | Salt and Fire | Director |
| Salt and Fire | Writer | |
| Salt and Fire | Producer | |
| Into the Inferno | Director | |
| Into the Inferno | Writer | |
| Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World | Director | |
| Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World | Producer | |
| Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World | Writer | |
| The Blimp-Maker | Thanks | |
| 2015 | Queen of the Desert | Director |
| Queen of the Desert | Writer | |
| Red Army | Executive Producer | |
| 2014 | The Look of Silence | Executive Producer |
| 2013 | From One Second to the Next | Director |
| L'ultimo pastore | Thanks | |
| 2012 | The Act of Killing | Executive Producer |
| The Killers: Unstaged | Director | |
| 2011 | Into the Abyss | Director |
| Into the Abyss | Writer | |
| Into the Abyss | Producer | |
| Ode to the Dawn of Man | Director | |
| Ode to the Dawn of Man | Cinematography | |
| Ode to the Dawn of Man | Sound | |
| 2010 | Hang Nơi Những Giấc Mơ Bị Lãng Quên | Director |
| Hang Nơi Những Giấc Mơ Bị Lãng Quên | Screenplay | |
| Happy People: A Year in the Taiga | Executive Producer | |
| Happy People: A Year in the Taiga | Director | |
| Happy People: A Year in the Taiga | Writer | |
| My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done | Director | |
| My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done | Screenplay | |
| A Night Out | Technical Advisor | |
| A Night Out | Thanks | |
| 2009 | Tình Trạng Xấu: Cuộc Gọi Từ New Orleans | Director |
| La Bohème | Director | |
| 2008 | Lohengrin - Bayreuther Festspiel | Stage Director |
| 2007 | Encounters at the End of the World | Director |
| Encounters at the End of the World | Writer | |
| Encounters at the End of the World | Sound | |
| Giải Cứu Lúc Bình Minh | Author | |
| Giải Cứu Lúc Bình Minh | Director | |
| The Devil's Muse | Creative Consultant | |
| 2005 | The Wild Blue Yonder | Director |
| The Wild Blue Yonder | Screenplay | |
| Grizzly Man | Director | |
| What Is It? | Thanks | |
| 2004 | Incident at Loch Ness | Producer |
| The White Diamond | Director | |
| The White Diamond | Screenplay | |
| 2003 | Rad der Zeit | Director |
| Rad der Zeit | Writer | |
| Rad der Zeit | Producer | |
| Rad der Zeit | Editor | |
| 2002 | Ten Thousand Years Older | Director |
| Ten Thousand Years Older | Screenplay | |
| Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet | Director | |
| Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet | Writer | |
| 2001 | Invincible | Director |
| Invincible | Writer | |
| Invincible | Producer | |
| Pilgrimage | Director | |
| 2000 | Tannhäuser | Stage Director |
| 1999 | Julianes Sturz in den Dschungel | Director |
| Julianes Sturz in den Dschungel | Writer | |
| Mein liebster Feind | Director | |
| Mein liebster Feind | Writer | |
| 1997 | Little Dieter Needs to Fly | Director |
| Little Dieter Needs to Fly | Writer | |
| 1996 | Die Verwandlung der Welt in Musik: Bayreuth vor der Premiere | Director |
| Die Verwandlung der Welt in Musik: Bayreuth vor der Premiere | Writer | |
| Die Verwandlung der Welt in Musik: Bayreuth vor der Premiere | Executive Producer | |
| 1995 | Tod für fünf Stimmen | Director |
| Tod für fünf Stimmen | Writer | |
| Tod für fünf Stimmen | Producer | |
| 1993 | Glocken aus der Tiefe | Director |
| Glocken aus der Tiefe | Writer | |
| 1992 | La Donna del Lago | Director |
| Lektionen in Finsternis | Director | |
| Lektionen in Finsternis | Writer | |
| Lektionen in Finsternis | Executive Producer | |
| 1991 | Jag Mandir: Das exzentrische Privattheater des Maharadscha von Udaipur | Director |
| Jag Mandir: Das exzentrische Privattheater des Maharadscha von Udaipur | Producer | |
| Jag Mandir: Das exzentrische Privattheater des Maharadscha von Udaipur | Screenplay | |
| Cerro Torre: Schrei aus Stein | Director | |
| 1990 | Echos aus einem düsteren Reich | Director |
| Echos aus einem düsteren Reich | Writer | |
| Echos aus einem düsteren Reich | Producer | |
| 1989 | Wodaabe – Die Hirten der Sonne | Director |
| Wodaabe – Die Hirten der Sonne | Writer | |
| Wodaabe – Die Hirten der Sonne | Co-Producer | |
| Giovanna d'Arco | Director | |
| 1988 | Les Français vus par | Director |
| Les Gaulois | Director | |
| Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe | Writer | |
| 1987 | Cobra Verde | Director |
| Cobra Verde | Screenplay | |
| Location Africa | Producer | |
| 1986 | Werner Herzog: Filmemacher | Director |
| Werner Herzog: Filmemacher | Writer | |
| 1985 | Gasherbrum - Der leuchtende Berg | Director |
| Gasherbrum - Der leuchtende Berg | Writer | |
| Gasherbrum - Der leuchtende Berg | Producer | |
| 1984 | Ballade vom kleinen Soldaten | Director |
| Ballade vom kleinen Soldaten | Writer | |
| Ballade vom kleinen Soldaten | Producer | |
| Wo die grünen Ameisen träumen | Director | |
| Wo die grünen Ameisen träumen | Producer | |
| Wo die grünen Ameisen träumen | Writer | |
| 1983 | Glaube und Währung: Dr. Gene Scott, Fernsehprediger | Director |
| Glaube und Währung: Dr. Gene Scott, Fernsehprediger | Writer | |
| Huie's Predigt | Director | |
| 1982 | Fitzcarraldo | Director |
| Fitzcarraldo | Producer | |
| Fitzcarraldo | Screenplay | |
| 1979 | Woyzeck | Director |
| Woyzeck | Screenplay | |
| Nosferatu - Phantom der Nacht | Director | |
| Nosferatu - Phantom der Nacht | Producer | |
| Nosferatu - Phantom der Nacht | Writer | |
| 1977 | La Soufrière: Warten auf eine unausweichliche Katastrophe | Director |
| La Soufrière: Warten auf eine unausweichliche Katastrophe | Sound Engineer | |
| La Soufrière: Warten auf eine unausweichliche Katastrophe | Producer | |
| Stroszek | Director | |
| Stroszek | Screenplay | |
| Stroszek | Producer | |
| 1976 | Herz aus Glas | Director |
| Herz aus Glas | Writer | |
| Herz aus Glas | Producer | |
| How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck: Beobachtungen zu einer neuen Sprache | Director | |
| How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck: Beobachtungen zu einer neuen Sprache | Producer | |
| How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck: Beobachtungen zu einer neuen Sprache | Sound | |
| Mit mir will niemand spielen | Director | |
| Mit mir will niemand spielen | Writer | |
| 1974 | Jeder für sich und Gott gegen alle | Director |
| Jeder für sich und Gott gegen alle | Screenplay | |
| Jeder für sich und Gott gegen alle | Producer | |
| Die große Ekstase des Bildschnitzers Steiner | Director | |
| Die große Ekstase des Bildschnitzers Steiner | Screenplay | |
| Die große Ekstase des Bildschnitzers Steiner | Producer | |
| 1973 | Land des Schweigens und der Dunkelheit | Director |
| Land des Schweigens und der Dunkelheit | Screenplay | |
| Land des Schweigens und der Dunkelheit | Producer | |
| Land des Schweigens und der Dunkelheit | Sound Recordist | |
| 1972 | Sự Phẫn Nộ Của Thần Linh | Director |
| Sự Phẫn Nộ Của Thần Linh | Producer | |
| Sự Phẫn Nộ Của Thần Linh | Writer | |
| Fata Morgana | Director | |
| Fata Morgana | Screenplay | |
| Fata Morgana | Producer | |
| Fata Morgana | Sound | |
| 1971 | Behinderte Zukunft | Director |
| Behinderte Zukunft | Producer | |
| Behinderte Zukunft | Sound Recordist | |
| Behinderte Zukunft | Writer | |
| Behinderte Zukunft | Sound | |
| 1970 | Auch Zwerge haben klein angefangen | Director |
| Auch Zwerge haben klein angefangen | Screenplay | |
| Auch Zwerge haben klein angefangen | Producer | |
| Die fliegenden Ärzte von Ostafrika | Director | |
| Die fliegenden Ärzte von Ostafrika | Writer | |
| Die fliegenden Ärzte von Ostafrika | Sound Recordist | |
| Die fliegenden Ärzte von Ostafrika | Producer | |
| 1969 | Maßnahmen gegen Fanatiker | Director |
| Maßnahmen gegen Fanatiker | Producer | |
| Maßnahmen gegen Fanatiker | Writer | |
| Maßnahmen gegen Fanatiker | Sound | |
| 1968 | Lebenszeichen | Director |
| Lebenszeichen | Writer | |
| Lebenszeichen | Producer | |
| Letzte Worte | Director | |
| Letzte Worte | Screenplay | |
| Letzte Worte | Producer | |
| 1967 | Die beispiellose Verteidigung der Festung Deutschkreuz | Director |
| Die beispiellose Verteidigung der Festung Deutschkreuz | Editor | |
| Die beispiellose Verteidigung der Festung Deutschkreuz | Screenplay | |
| 1962 | Herakles | Director |
| Herakles | Editor | |
| Herakles | Screenplay | |
| Herakles | Producer | |
| Herakles | Sound |