In the mid-1990s, Lena Herzog was a student in California, studying philosophy at Mills College and taking classes at Berkeley. When she first met Werner Herzog, a renowned filmmaker by then ...

A teenage Werner Herzog needed just one thing after he decided filmmaking was his destiny: a camera. He found one at a film school in Munich and walked off with it — something he calls "more ...

Herzog was born in Munich, Germany, in 1942, the mid-point of World War II. His family left Munich for the Bavarian Alps when Herzog was just two weeks old, after a narrow escape from bombing.

Venice Film Festival is set to confer filmmaker Werner Herzog with the award Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement this year.