I had no idea that Documentary Now! was back with a new season. That’s some welcome news!

Such an amazing show.

I look into ze eyes of da bear

I wish this show was on a streaming service somewhere

Paramount+ apparently!

Seasons 1 is on Prime for like 12 more days. then season 4 and 2 are on IFC if you have cable or dish you can log in and watch them. Season 3 I really couldn’t find an easy way.

Really complicated! I remember it use to be on Netflix.

Season two is on youtube as well.

Werner Herzog is a chronic animal abuser/torturer. Fuck him.

edit: to the people downvoting me, why? When you watch a Herzog film, you're watching horrific animal abuse on-screen. I provided a full list with examples in his films. Not sure why people are cool with that.

Yes I think he is talented but I just can't get behind animal abuse.

Not in the US at least. I don’t see it.

My dad used to watch this show, and his dad before him.

Season 51 probably

Werner is the fucking man. He once ate a slow cooked leather shoe in front of an audience because he lost a bet his friend and director Errol Morris. The bet was whether or not Errol Morris could get Thin Blue Line made, which in itself is epic film. The documentary essentially proves gets a man off death row who was incorrectly convicted of murder.

WernerHerzogEatsHisShoehttps://g.co/kgs/5Tiaei

Go on…

All seasons are on AMC+.

Also you get to watch episodes a week early on their streaming services. I can watch episodes 1-3 of season 4.

Sure.

• The animal abuse was so bad that the handler on set quit. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nosferatu_the_Vampyre#Animal_cruelty

• In his film Aguirre, The Wrath of God, chickens are dropped from a cliff. A horse is beaten. A horse is thrown into a river and kicked. Monkeys are rampantly abused and thrown into a river.

• In Fata Morgana, a fox is carried by the throat.

• In Stroszek, a chicken on a hot plate ("dancing", aka its feet are being burned) is shown.

• An abandoned project called Game in the Sand had animal abuse so out of control that even Herzog himself admitted it was a bit much. https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/4s9uyb/wtf_happened_with_the_rooster_in_werner_herzogs/

• I mean look at all these horrible examples for his film Even Dwarves Started Small : https://violence-hurt-animals-in-film.blogspot.com/2020/08/even-dwarfs-started-small.html

I also believe that the "penguin walking away to its death" scene in his documentary Encounters at the End of the World is staged. In that he abducted a penguin and displaced it far from its colony, causing it to walk endlessly to its death because it was lost. Purely for his film.

And it is not only animals. Herzog is also cruel to the actors he puts in his films, notably the mentally disabled man Bruno S, whom he had cast in two films. Herzog admitted to torturing and tormenting this man to get him in a certain frame of mind for his films.

Herzog is a real piece of shit, I hate how he's become kind of a meme that everyone loves and thinks is funny. He's evil.

He's a piece of shit who abuses and tortures animals.

edit: to the people downvoting me, why? When you watch a Herzog film, you're watching horrific animal abuse on-screen. Not sure why people are cool with that. The man went out of his way to be cruel to animals, it's all there on screen. Dude is the Michael Vick of movie directors but yeah lol funny man eat shoe

The first three seasons play on one of the Pluto TV comedy channels for free, and I think they still have them available for on demand streaming as well.

That poor rabbit.. but I mean.. he needs to kill something.

I'm assuming PFT stars as Werner Herzog?

My favorite documentary is Grey Gardens so I absolutely loved their Sandy Passage episode parody. It was so well done.

I had no idea they had started doing episodes about real people. That sounds like it could be interesting.

I actually don’t know about this. Can you tell me more. Maybe a piece of shit and I don’t know. He def makes incredible films.

I’m okay admiring someone’s work and not liking them as a person.

I always wanted to see a fight to the death between him and Klaus Kinski. Not sure who I would have wanted to win, tho.

No one is a Herzog fan because he's a good person. You can find a bad guy interesting and talented.

I commented this further down the thread but to make it easier I'll just put it here too. Herzog really is a terrible person. He is very talented but I honestly can't get past his horrible and unusual cruelty to animals, and people, for his films. It's hard in his case to separate art from artist, because his art is where all the abuse is. He abuses animals/people for his films, so it can't be ignored unless you dont watch them. Not sure how people are ok with supporting him, he goes out of his way to be mean.

Nosfertau - The animal abuse was so bad that the handler on set quit. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nosferatu_the_Vampyre#Animal_cruelty In his film Aguirre, The Wrath of God, chickens are dropped from a cliff. A horse is beaten. A horse is thrown into a river and kicked. Monkeys are rampantly abused and thrown into a river.

In Fata Morgana, a fox is carried by the throat.

In Stroszek, a chicken on a hot plate ("dancing", aka its feet are being burned) is shown.

An abandoned project called Game in the Sand had animal abuse so out of control that even Herzog himself admitted it was a bit much. https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/4s9uyb/wtf_happened_with_the_rooster_in_werner_herzogs/

I mean look at all these horrible examples for his film Even Dwarves Started Small : https://violence-hurt-animals-in-film.blogspot.com/2020/08/even-dwarfs-started-small.html

I also believe that the "penguin walking away to its death" scene in his documentary Encounters at the End of the World is staged. In that he abducted a penguin and displaced it far from its colony, causing it to walk endlessly to its death because it was lost. Purely for his film.

And it is not only animals. Herzog is also cruel to the actors he puts in his films, notably the mentally disabled man Bruno S, whom he had cast in two films. Herzog admitted to torturing and tormenting this man to get him in a certain frame of mind for his films.

I do find him talented, but when you're watching his films, you're literally watching the abuse on screen. That's what I can't get past.

Reddit is a fucking echo chamber. Having a different opinion on here is like swimming up a waterfall. Everyone loves to shit on the biased propaganda spewed on sites like Facebook and on main stream media platforms, when in reality this platform is just as skewed.

It really is. I mean it's funny how Reddit picks and chooses who is evil and who isn't. Like

Ellen, a bully = evil, unforgiveable, horrible person.

Herzog, who consistently tortured animals on screen = nah he's cool

This is headline city man.

yo ho yo ho a pirates life for meeee

You got floor all in my lima beans!

https://youtube.com/channel/UCpBwwlsBzq45pQfHR_HFepQ

All three seasons are available on that YouTube channel. I don’t know if it is available in all countries though.

Wild. Thanks for the info.

What's he up to? What is he doing?

This is probably based on the doc ‘My best Fiend’

CBB and N4Y? hello!

Can we get another Blue Jean Committee episode?

How can you not love hot soccer mom and the hunk?

"Yeah but a streaming service I have" - all Redditors

I have watched it so many times!!! It’s literally my favorite episode of anything ever. Pitter patter

I got married in Iceland last year and made sure to go to Arborg so I could see where they have the annual Al Capone Festival.

It's 53, I think.

I'm really bummed that Bill is only being an EP and not appearing this season. I know why, but he's amazing in Doc Now.

Nice!

In case you really wanted to really know Alexander Skarsgård plays a Werner Herzog type character called Rainier Wolz who tries to make a sitcom pilot in a remote village

It was an amazing 2 part episode!

Oh man I gotta rewatch this series. Seeing this reminded me of that episode and how funny and insane the idea of an Al Capone festival is

It's weird if you have AMC+ through Amazon prime. For some reason season 4 is separate from the other seasons in its own area.

With a cameo by H. R. Giger as played by Matt Gourley?

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That's abhorrent. Thank you for bringing this up! I had no idea.

The Blue Jean Committee was my favorite.

Oh lord I ADORE Warner Herzog. His character on Jack Reacher is just the tip of the iceberg.

His POV is so grim, graphic and extreme, OVER. THE. TOP.

His documentary on volcanoes: "Zee Earth cares nothing for your stupid little dreams, it incinerates your stupid dreams and spits them out as ash and blinding smoke that chokes and fills your lungs with death," the first 9 words are a direct quote. The rest is in the spirit of WH.

WH describing something while making Fitzcarraldo: "standing in a sun-dappled, twittering Peruvian glade, he declares, 'The trees are in misery, and the birds are in misery. I don’t think they sing. They just screech in pain. . . . Taking a close look at what’s around us, there is some sort of harmony: it’s the harmony of overwhelming and collective murder.'"

I love this man!

It's from this article: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2006/04/24/the-ecstatic-truth

Tubi has a great collection of his films and various documentaries about him.

These two episodes were amazing. Skarsgård's version of Werner Herzog is spot on. Hilarious.

Nope, Alexander Skarsgård. He does an amazing job too, it's hysterical.

To clarify, he makes both a documentary about the indigenous people of a remote area in the mountains between Russia and Kazakhstan, while simultaneously filming the pilot for a 90s era sitcom there. At the same time.

It's really fucking funny.

Bummer.

Should that exclude him from being the subject of comedic parody with which he has zero involvement -- to the extent thay they don't even use his actual name?

You call a man who is afraid a “chicken”. But what do you call a man who is afraid of chickens🐓? 🤔

I don’t think anyone asked since I don’t think anyone knew

Article says it's "Burden of Dreams."

Another interesting one.

It’s mainly Burden of Dreams, but it’s got a little of My Best Fiend in it, plus a sprinkle of other Herzog stuff - Grizzly Man, Into the Abyss, Happy People, and probably a few other references I missed.

No, AMC+. Also on IFC with a provider login.

As a cable subscriber, I can also see episodes 1-3 on IFC.com (and S1 and S2, but not S3) with a provider login. But they're airing on IFC a week behind streaming.

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The movie he ate the shoe for was Gates of Heaven...

I just heard the Herzog impression clip on the NPR review describing the two simultaneous projects and laughed so hard at a red light the driver next to me was certain I was a madman.

Why would you want Klaus Kinski to win? By all accounts he was a monster who probably sexually abused his daughters.

Season 3 looks to be on AMC+ (which has all seasons as well)

Lol I mean it’s obvious why - there’s like 15 fuckin streaming services and they all have like 3 things worth watching

We’ve come full circle - I think original cable was better than the clusterfuck we have with streaming services now.

> His character on Jack Reacher is just the tip of the iceberg.

I think back to that more frequently than I would like. Specifically, would I eat my own finger to save my life. Gruesome choice.

"Always the bullet."

Yesterday evening I was going through my streaming services to see if there was anything new or at least new to me to watch and ended up settling on some Netflix slasher movie that came out last year.

This episode was so fucking absurd and hysterical, loved it.

He also decided to move to Orlando to be closer to Disney World

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCm3ar5uw64

Loved him in Parks & Rec

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCm3ar5uw64