| 2026 | Bucking Fastard | Writer |
| 2026 | Celebrity Caregiver | Executive Producer |
| 2026 | Bucking Fastard | Director |
| 2025 | Ghost Elephants | |
| 2025 | Felicidad | Producer |
| 2025 | Ghost Elephants | |
| 2022 | The Fire Within: A Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft | |
| 2022 | Theater of Thought | |
| 2022 | Theater of Thought | |
| 2022 | The Fire Within: A Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft | |
| 2020 | Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds | |
| 2019 | Family Romance, LLC | |
| 2019 | Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin | |
| 2019 | Family Romance, LLC | |
| 2019 | Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin | |
| 2018 | Meeting Gorbachev | |
| 2018 | Meeting Gorbachev | |
| 2016 | Salt and Fire | |
| 2016 | Salt and Fire | |
| 2016 | Into the Inferno | |
| 2016 | Into the Inferno | |
| 2016 | Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World | |
| 2016 | Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World | |
| 2015 | Queen of the Desert | |
| 2015 | Queen of the Desert | |
| 2013 | From One Second to the Next | |
| 2011 | Into the Abyss | |
| 2011 | Into the Abyss | |
| 2010 | Cave of Forgotten Dreams | |
| 2010 | Cave of Forgotten Dreams | |
| 2010 | Happy People: A Year in the Taiga | |
| 2010 | Happy People: A Year in the Taiga | |
| 2009 | My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done | |
| 2009 | La bohème | |
| 2009 | My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done | |
| 2009 | Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans | |
| 2007 | Encounters at the End of the World | |
| 2007 | Encounters at the End of the World | |
| 2006 | Rescue Dawn | |
| 2006 | Rescue Dawn | |
| 2005 | The Wild Blue Yonder | |
| 2005 | Grizzly Man | |
| 2005 | Grizzly Man | |
| 2005 | The Wild Blue Yonder | |
| 2004 | The White Diamond | |
| 2004 | The White Diamond | |
| 2003 | Wheel of Time | |
| 2003 | Wheel of Time | |
| 2002 | Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet | |
| 2002 | Ten Thousand Years Older | |
| 2001 | Pilgrimage | |
| 2001 | Invincible | |
| 2001 | Invincible | |
| 2000 | Wings of Hope | |
| 2000 | Christ and Demons in New Spain | |
| 1999 | My Best Fiend | |
| 1999 | My Best Fiend | |
| 1997 | Little Dieter Needs to Fly | |
| 1997 | Little Dieter Needs to Fly | |
| 1995 | Death for Five Voices | |
| 1994 | The Transformation of the World into Music | |
| 1993 | Bells from the Deep: Faith and Superstition in Russia | |
| 1993 | Bells from the Deep: Faith and Superstition in Russia | |
| 1992 | Lessons of Darkness | |
| 1991 | Scream of Stone | TV-Regisseur |
| 1991 | Scream of Stone | Director |
| 1991 | Jag Mandir | |
| 1990 | Echoes From a Somber Empire | |
| 1990 | Echoes From a Somber Empire | |
| 1989 | Wodaabe – Herdsmen of the Sun | |
| 1987 | Cobra Verde | |
| 1987 | Cobra Verde | |
| 1986 | Portrait Werner Herzog | |
| 1984 | Where the Green Ants Dream | |
| 1984 | The Dark Glow of the Mountains | |
| 1984 | Ballad of the Little Soldier | |
| 1984 | Ballad of the Little Soldier | |
| 1984 | Where the Green Ants Dream | |
| 1982 | Fitzcarraldo | |
| 1982 | Fitzcarraldo | |
| 1981 | God's Angry Man | |
| 1981 | Huie's Sermon | |
| 1979 | Woyzeck | |
| 1979 | Woyzeck | |
| 1979 | Nosferatu the Vampyre | |
| 1979 | Nosferatu the Vampyre | |
| 1977 | La Soufrière | |
| 1977 | Stroszek | |
| 1977 | Stroszek | |
| 1976 | Heart of Glass | |
| 1976 | How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck | |
| 1976 | No One Will Play with Me | |
| 1976 | Heart of Glass | |
| 1975 | Lost in the Garden of the World | Self |
| 1974 | The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser | |
| 1974 | The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser | |
| 1974 | The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner | |
| 1974 | The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner | |
| 1972 | Aguirre, the Wrath of God | |
| 1972 | Aguirre, the Wrath of God | |
| 1971 | Fata Morgana | |
| 1971 | Fata Morgana | |
| 1971 | Land of Silence and Darkness | |
| 1971 | Handicapped Future | |
| 1971 | Land of Silence and Darkness | |
| 1970 | Even Dwarfs Started Small | |
| 1970 | Even Dwarfs Started Small | |
| 1969 | The Flying Doctors of East Africa | |
| 1968 | Signs of Life | |
| 1968 | Precautions Against Fanatics | |
| 1968 | Signs of Life | |
| 1967 | Last Words | |
| 1966 | The Unprecedented Defence of the Fortress Deutschkreuz | |
| 1964 | Game in the Sand | |
| 1962 | Herakles | |