Filmmaker Werner Herzog talks about his documentary “Death Row Portraits.” Conceived as a companion to “Into the Abyss,” his documentary about a triple homicide in Texas, “Death Row Portraits” focuses on five inmates awaiting their appointment with a lethal injection in the Texas and Florida prison systems. “Death Row Portraits” is playing April 25-26 at IFC Center.

German film director, producer and screenwriter, Werner Herzog, explores the American death penalty in his new documentary, Into the Abyss, about a triple homicide in Texas.

In a small town in Texas, two young men knock on the door of a woman’s house as she's making cookies. They ask to use her phone. But as her back is turned, they kill her and then two other innocent bystanders all so they can enjoy a brief joyride in her car. In the end, one murderer is sentenced to life in prison. The other is given the death penalty.

German film director, producer and screenwriter Werner Herzog explores the American death penalty in his new documentary Into the Abyss, about a triple homicide in Texas.

It may just be the best use of 3D technology yet: to bring moviegoers to a place they will never, ever, be able to visit. That's what director Werner Herzog does with Cave of Forgotten Dreams. He tells Kurt Andersen how he came to film one of the most amazing discoveries of our time — the 30,000-year-old...

Bonus Track: Kurt Andersen's Full Conversation with Werner Herzog

Director Werner Herzog latest film, "Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans," a re-imagining of Abel Ferrara’s 1992 film “Bad Lieutenant.” It stars Nicolas Cage as Terence McDonagh, a drug-addled detective investigating the murder of five African immigrants. "Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans,"opens in New York Friday, November ...

Filmmaker Werner Herzog shares the diaries he compiled during the production of his 1982 film "Fitzcarraldo." His book, Conquest of the Useless, vividly recounts the emotional, physical and psychological toll exacted by moving a 320-ton steamship over a hill in the Peruvian jungle without the use of any special ...

Werner Herzog traveled to Antarctica for his new film about the miraculous mysteries of nature, "Encounters at the End of the World." It opens June 11 at Film Forum.

Werner Herzog is committed to authentic filmmaking. For his 1982 movie Fitzcarraldo, Herzog had his crew hoist a steamboat – a full-scale vessel weighing hundreds of tons – up and over a mountaintop. And for his latest movie, Rescue Dawn, he took his cast and crew deep ...