Nothing if not appropriate for summer blockbuster season, Werner Herzog’s latest feature, based on his 1997 documentary Little Dieter Needs to Fly, offers a suitably fantastic tale of war, freedom, ...

Nothing if not appropriate for summer blockbuster season, Werner Herzog’s latest feature, based on his 1997 documentary Little Dieter Needs to Fly, offers a suitably fantastic tale of war, freedom and ...

Conveyer of ecstatic truths and filmmaker extraordinaire Werner Herzog’s latest is Rescue Dawn, an action-drama based on U.S. pilot Dieter Dengler’s harrowing survival struggle after being shot down ...

Incongruous Herzog The first time Werner Herzog came to Williamstown in 2005, he showed a clip from his 1997 documentary, "Little Dieter Needs to Fly" wherein the subject, Dieter Dengler, opens and ...

Now in its second season, “History’s Great Escapes With Morgan Freeman” (9 p.m., History, TV-14) recalls a legendary break that inspired two memorable films. Shot down over Laos in 1966, German-born ...

Every Man for Himself and God Against All: A Memoir ; by Werner Herzog, translated from German by Michael Hofmann; Penguin Press; 368 pp., $30.00 Like Dieter Dengler, the German-born American airman ...

Just when it seemed Independence Day might be the exclusive province of Michael Bay’s Transformers, MGM rushes in with Rescue Dawn. Nothing if not appropriate, Werner Herzog’s latest feature, based on ...