Werner Herzog was born in September 1942 in Munich, Germany, at a turning point in WWII. Soon Germany would be defeated and a new world would have to be made out the rubble and horrors of the war. Fleeing the Allied bombing raids, Herzog's mother took him and his older brother to a remote, rustic part of Bavaria where he would spend much of his childhood hungry, without running water, in deep poverty. It was there, as the new postwar order was emerging, that one of the most visionary filmmakers of the next seven decades was formed. The wildly productive working life that followed - spanning the seven continents and encompassing both documentary and fiction - was an adventure as grand and otherworldly as any depicted in his many classic films.