Little Dieter Needs to Fly (1997)
A lot of Herzog's more documentary stuff can be hit or miss. I'd had this film on my Prime watchlist for... four, maybe five years. It was at the bottom and I could never bring myself to watch it. Well, with my forced sobriety and subsequent depression resulting from said sobriety, I have found myself utterly bored, day in day out. Decided to start chipping away at my huge ass watchlist and landed on this one as it is only about an hour and twenty minutes long.
What a visceral film! I would not call this fun entertainment. The story of a German born American who immigrated to the US after WWII and fell in love with flying as a result of his town being bombed by fighter planes as a child, who then became a POW after he joined the Navy and got sent to Vietnam in 1966. I can't even begin to imagine the horror that man faced in his youth.
Worth a watch. Short, to the point, and unlike anything I've seen before.
9/10