A titan of New German Cinema whose adventures in filmmaking now span six decades, Werner Herzog has always been voracious in his quest for “ecstatic truth.” He has ventured deep into the Amazon, traversed the Sahara, and scaled active volcanoes—prepared to risk life and limb (his own and sometimes those of others, too) in the name of art. This collection brings together a number of his most powerful and hypnotic—and beloved—works.