Werner Herzog: He has taken his camera to parts of the world no other director would dare to go, and told stories in ways no one had ever even considered. These five masterpieces, which blur the line between 'fiction' and 'documentary', illustrate why Werner Herzog is the most daring, visionary, and dangerous filmmaker of our lives.

Even Dwarfs Started Small (1970): Featuring a cast composed entirely of little people (the first time that had been done since the 1938 western The Terror Of Tiny Town), Even Dwarves Started Small is a brutal, uncompromising allegory about the consequences of imprisonment and rebellion..

Fata Morgana (1971): In one of the strangest and most mesmerizing films ever made, world-renowned director Werner Herzog brings his cameras to the Sahara desert in order to film mirages.

But Fata Morgana (literally, "mirage") is much more than that - as Herzog combines the apocalyptic, often hallucinatory images he discovered in the desert (plane wreckage, exotic beasts, and one of the oddest musical acts ever filmed) with passages from the Mayan creation myth, transforming a simple trick of the light into what he calls "a science-fiction elegy of demented colonialism."

Heart Of Glass (1977): Perhaps most notable for the fact that all but one of the cast perform quite literally under the hypnotic spell of the director himself, Heart Of Glass is one of Werner Herzog's most stylised, challenging and visionary films. A stunning piece of work, in 1977 the film was awarded the German Gold Film Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Cinematography.

When the owner of the local glass factory passes away without divulging the secret formula for making a magical ruby glass, the residents of a 19th Century Bavarian Village find their community falling apart as they are gripped by superstition and madness. Desperate for help, the villagers turn to a local prophet, but his visions predict only further collapse and apocalyptic doom. Heart Of Glass tells an allegorical tale in a style that can only be described as hypnotic.

The Enigma Of Kaspar Hauser (1974): In 1828, as if out of nowhere, a young man appeared in Nuremberg's town square. He had no history, spoke only a few words, and could not stand upright. Having been locked in a basement for 17 years, Kaspar Hauser was more beast than man.

Who was he, and where did he come from?

Despite attempts by townsfolk to understand and civilize him, Kaspar became little more than a sideshow attraction. And though the mystery of his origins remained unanswered, perhaps the biggest question of all was, why did someone want him dead?

Based on a true story, Werner Herzog's poignant, often funny, and unforgettable tale of "the enigma of the century" - punctuated by a brilliant performance from Bruno S.

Stroszek (1977): After being released from prison, Berlin street musician Bruno Stroszek (Bruno S.) finds himself lost in a world where he simply doesn't belong. So along with his prostitute girlfriend (Eva Mattes) and an eccentric neighbour (Clemens Scheitz), Stroszek moves to America, where he's told, everyone is rich. It doesn't take long, however, after moving into a mobile home and taking a job as a mechanic, for Stroszek to realise that the streets of Railroad Flats, Wisconsin aren't paved with gold.

Featuring a remarkable cast and one of the most bizarre, memorable endings in film history. Werner Herzog's Stroszek is a brilliant tragicomedy which explores what happens when the American dream becomes a nightmare.