Najaar 1941, La Rochelle aan de Franse kust: 50 Duitse militairen drinken zich zat en maken plezier in een Franse nachtclub. Voor hen kan dit de laatste keer zijn, aangezien ze de volgende morgen aan boord van een onderzeeër zullen gaan, om zo veel mogelijk vijandelijke schepen tot zinken te brengen.

Journalist Robert Krohn ontmoet Veronika Voss, een labiele filmster uit vervlogen tijden. Tussen hen ontstaat een merkwaardige relatie, waarbij Robert gedreven wordt door journalistieke interesse en medelijden. Hij ontdekt dat Veronika aan de morfine verslaafd is.

Het verhaal gaat over de jongen Krabat. Hij komt op een molen bij het Koselmoeras, waar hij gaat werken als leerjongen. De molen blijkt een school voor zwarte kunst te zijn. De molenaar is Meester in de zwarte kunst.

Walter Steiner is een timmerman, maar ook een legendarische skiër die ontzagwekkende resultaten boekt. Werner Herzog legt de man vast op camera en probeert het moment dat Steiner in de lucht zweeft vast te houden en te doorgronden.

Reverend Huie Rogers is a preacher at the Bible Way Church of Our Lord Jesus Christ in Brooklyn. He is the topic of this short film, during which launches into an epic call-and-response denunciation of human hubris, greed, corruption and failure. The use of lengthy shots present it less like a sermon and more a performance, and induce an almost trance-like state.

Kurt Raab is een goeige technische ontwerper met een kennelijk harmonieus gezinsleven. Maar in het conservatieve gedachten patroon van Kurt Raab, het spendeer gedrag van zijn vrouw en het concentratieprobleem van zijn zoontje zijn vege voortekens te zien.

Night after night, not long before dawn, two young adults, Patricia and Emile, meet on a sound stage to discuss learning, discourse, and the path to revolution. Scenes of Paris's student revolt, the Vietnam War, and other events of the late 1960s, along with posters, photographs, and cartoons, are backdrops to their words. Words themselves are often Patricia and Emile's subject, as are images, sounds, and juxtapositions.

The year is 1997, and World Peace seems to have come, with most classic weapons of mass destruction having been abandoned. However, orbiting the Earth there is the European/American space station FLORIDA ARKLAB, capable of controlling the weather at any location on the planet underneath. A civil project by nature, it might be abused as an offensive weapon, since it could deliver devastation to any potential adversary simply by creating natural disasters such as storms and floods. No wonder the space station soon becomes the central point in rising political tensions between East and West, next stop World War 3 (as indicated by the tagline "The end of our future has already begun"). We follow the main protagonist Billy Hayes, an astronaut aboard the station, as he wades through a plot of secrecy and sabotage trying to tell friend from foe in the process.

In the Bavarian village of Schladerbach, the kobold Hatschipuh and his comrades live, of whose existence only Grandpa Reiter is aware. When the building constructor Lederer builds himself a new mansion, the subterranean settlement of the kobolds gets destroyed, and Grandpa Reiter sees himself forced to move them into his barn. But this abode as well is soon threatened: Since the farm is no longer profitable, Father Reiter plans to sell it…

Ballad of the Little Soldier is a 1984 documentary film about child soldiers in Nicaragua.

Ferdinand Weitel, a forklift driver, is desperate: Insurance agent Arno von Mehling, a true sales talent, has had contracts signed in record amounts. Now Weitel is wandering through the corridors of the insurance company trying to save what can still be saved - on Shrove Tuesday of all days. The department for customer service and complaints is in a colorful mood and has no ear for Weitel's worries. Finally, secretary Annerose Waguscheit takes heart and tells him about the evening carnival ball "Traum-Police", where he can safely find Mr. Mehling.

A documentary short examining the language and performance of auctioneering, filmed at the World Livestock Auctioneer Championship in Pennsylvania.

Werner Herzog takes a film crew to the island of Guadeloupe when he hears that the volcano on the island is going to erupt. Everyone has left, except for one old man who refuses to leave.

The writer Charmain Colson entertains a circle of old friends. One day, when the group receive an anonymous message saying Memento Mori/Remember you must die, they all panic in fear and angst.

Aguirre, a Spanish father, left his family to work as a sewer worker in Germany. His son joined and he does hire. One day, the boy dies in an accident as well as German sewer worker who tries to save him. Aguirre tries to reach out to his widow and children who turn away. He understands that it is because he is a foreign worker and they reproach him as a foreigner, to be the cause of death of the German sewage worker. The universe Aguirre then collapses.

The documentary follows Gene Scott, famous televangelist involved with constant fights against FCC, who tried to shut down his TV show during the 1970s and '80s, and even argues with his viewers, complaining about their lack of support by not sending enough money to keep going with the show.