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A beginner’s path through Werner Herzog’s visionary cinema of eccentric adventure and ecstatic truth.

5. Grizzly Man (2005) Perhaps the most famous of Herzog’s documentaries, Grizzly Man tells the tragic story of Timothy Treadwell; a passionate, maverick conservationist who was so concerned over the welfare of bears that he would spend summers in Alaska “protecting” them from poachers. Believing that he had befriended them, Treadwell filmed himself actively approaching and interacting with the bears for thirteen years, until they inevitably turned-on him. Using Treadwell’s own footage a...