German filmmaker Werner Herzog recommends five documentaries you have to watch
Fireball: Visitors From Darker Worlds’, about how meteors have shaped human culture – listed his favourite works including one of his own.Speaking to The Guardian Herzog revealed that, despite his profession, he watches just a handful of films each year, adding that “the issue with most documentaries” is that they “have not divorced [the medium] from journalism”.Regardless, he recommended five key documentaries, starting with Joshua Oppenheimer’s The Act Of Killing (2012) about the 1965–66 genocide in Indonesia.He then moved on to “arguably the best documentary ever made”: Jean Rouch’s The Mad Masters (1955).