"Little Dieter Needs To Fly"
1997
Directed by Werner Herzog

Unusual portrait of an unusual man, Werner Herzog's Little Dieter Needs to Fly shares the unforgettable, mostly true story of pilot Dieter Dengler, a German who came to America at age 18 and joined the navy. Flying a mission over Laos in 1966, he was shot down and made a prisoner of war. Revisiting some of the locations where Dengler experienced the horrors of war, Herzog recreated some of the events and reportedly suggested imagery that his clearly traumatized subject would then make a part of his story. "Herzog sees his mission as a filmmaker not to turn himself into a recording machine, but to be a collaborator. He does not simply stand and watch, but arranges and adjusts and subtly enhances, so that the film takes the materials of Dengler's adventure and fashions it into a new thing" (Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times).  80 minutes.