Werner Herzog's 10 best films ranked in order of greatness

qayum Khan on Instagram: "In Encounters at the End of the World, Werner Herzog films a lone penguin doing the unthinkable: leaving its colony and waddling inland toward the Antarctic mountains the exact opposite direction of food, ocean, and survival. No storm. No predator. Just one tiny bird quietly choosing the wrong way. Herzog famously frames it like an existential drama, wondering if the penguin is having a crisis.. a little feathery philosopher rejecting the script nature wrote for it. Tha

Nihilist Penguin on Instagram: "But why ? . The “Nihilist Penguin” refers to a famous scene from Werner Herzog’s documentary Encounters at the End of the World, featuring a disoriented penguin that abandons its colony and heads inland towards the mountains, away from food and safety, seemingly without purpose, leading Herzog to muse on its existential crisis and its potentially fatal, non-conformist path. The term, while catchy, sparks debate, with some seeing pure nihilism and others interpreti