| — | Werner Herzog cineasta | Self |
| — | Untitled Bong Joon-ho Animated Film | |
| 2024 | Celebrating the Rice Media Center | Self (archival footage) |
| 2021 | ستاره دنباله دار: سهراب شهید ثالث | Self |
| 2020 | AGFA Mystery Mixtape #2: Later in L.A. | Self |
| 2020 | Dear Werner (Walking on Cinema) | Narrator (voice) |
| 2020 | El Andinista | The Painter (Narrator) |
| 2019 | Jihad in Hollywood | Self |
| 2019 | Tattoo Uprising | Self |
| 2018 | Paradox Bullets | Narrator (voice) |
| 2018 | 我是一个电影战士 | Self |
| 2017 | Cien años con Juan Rulfo | Himself |
| 2016 | Jihad in Hollywood | Self |
| 2014 | Werner Herzog: On Death Row and Life as a Director | Self |
| 2013 | An Appreciation of Les Blank by Werner Herzog | Self |
| 2013 | Werner Herzog and Errol Morris on 'The Act of Killing' | Self |
| 2012 | The Killers: Unstaged | Self |
| 2010 | Wer sich traut, reißt die Kälte vom Pferd | Self |
| 2010 | The Making of Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans | Himself |
| 2010 | Was ich bin sind meine Filme - Teil 2... nach 30 Jahren | Self |
| 2010 | Future States | Plastic Bag (voice) |
| 2008 | 40 x 15: The Forty Years of the Directors' Fortnight | Self |
| 2004 | The Best of Tromadance Film Festival: Volume 3 | Self (voice) ("Dribble" short) |
| 1976 | Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema | Self |
| 1967 | Neuer Deutscher Film Report | |
| — | Schegge di cinema e filosofia | Self |
| 2008 | Bierbichler | Self |
| 2005 | In the Edges: The 'Grizzly Man' Session | Self |
| 2000 | Der letzte Dokumentarfilm | Self |
| 1999 | In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin | Self |
| 1996 | Stardust Stricken: Mohsen Makhmalbaf, A Portrait | Self |
| 1995 | Brennendes Herz | |
| 1985 | Sonntagsgespräch | Self |
| 1968 | Die Erben von Papas Kino | |
| — | Tales from the Opera | Director |
| 1989 | Il cuore e le gambe (Herzog) | Self |
| 1979 | Scénario de Sauve qui peut (la vie). Quelques remarques sur la réalisation et la production du film | Self (archive footage) |
| 1979 | Okay | Self |
| 1979 | Bayerischer Filmpreis | Self |
| — | Jösta Hagelbäck & Werner Herzog | Self |
| — | Non, monsieur Werner Herzog, ceci n'est pas votre Cinématon | Self |
| 2024 | Orion and the Dark | Narrator (voice) |
| 2024 | The Fire Within: Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft | Narrator (voice) |
| 2023 | The Arc of Oblivion | Narrator (voice) |
| 2022 | The U.S. and the Holocaust | Hermann Göring |
| 2022 | Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer | Self |
| 2022 | Last Exit: Space | Narrator (voice) |
| 2022 | Nosferatu – Ein Film wie ein Vampir | Self (archive footage) |
| 2022 | Tegoyo | Self (Voice) |
| 2021 | Ein Leben für den Film - Lotte Eisner | Self |
| 2021 | Hannelore Elsner - Ohne Spiel ist mir das Leben zu ernst | Self (archive footage) |
| 2021 | L'extravagante petite vie de Jean-Claude D. Dreyfus | Self (archive footage) |
| 2020 | Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds | Self - Narrator (voice) |
| 2020 | Disney Gallery / Star Wars: The Mandalorian | Self - The Client |
| 2020 | Wim Wenders, Desperado | Self |
| 2019 | The Mandalorian | The Client |
| 2019 | Meeting Gorbachev | Self |
| 2019 | Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin | Self - Interviewer and Narrator (voice) |
| 2019 | 90 Years of the Music Box Theatre | Self |
| 2018 | The Great Buster: A Celebration | Self |
| 2018 | Manaslu - Berg der Seelen | Self |
| 2018 | Der Film verlässt das Kino: Vom Kübelkind-Experiment und anderen Utopien | Self |
| 2017 | O Homem que Matou John Wayne | Self (archive footage) |
| 2017 | Ballad of a Righteous Merchant | Self |
| 2016 | Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World | Self |
| 2016 | Into the Inferno | Narrator (voice) |
| 2016 | Salt and Fire | Man with One Story (uncredited) |
| 2015 | Freaks of Nature | Perfect Being (voice) |
| 2015 | The Late Show with Stephen Colbert | Self |
| 2015 | Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter | Self |
| 2014 | Penguins of Madagascar | Documentary Filmmaker (voice) |
| 2014 | Life Itself | Self - Filmmaker |
| 2014 | Late Night with Seth Meyers | Self |
| 2014 | Lemonade War | Neighborhood Hero |
| 2014 | Alfonso Sansone - produttore per caso | Self (archive footage) |
| 2013 | Rick and Morty | Shrimply Pibbles (voice) |
| 2013 | The Unbelievers | Self |
| 2013 | Mistaken for Strangers | Self (uncredited) |
| 2013 | Die andere Heimat - Chronik einer Sehnsucht | Alexander von Humboldt |
| 2013 | Jack Reacher: When the Man Comes Around | Self |
| 2012 | Jack Reacher | Zec Chelovek |
| 2012 | Dinotasia | Narrator (voice) |
| 2012 | On Death Row | Werner Herzog |
| 2012 | Close Up | Self (archive footage) |
| 2012 | 10 Questions for Werner Herzog | Self |
| 2011 | Into the Abyss | Narrator (voice) |
| 2011 | On Borrowed Time | Self |
| 2011 | Champions: Μια αστεία ιστορία | Self |
| 2011 | Eu eu eu José Lewgoy | Self |
| 2011 | Hans Zimmer - Der Sound für Hollywood | Self |
| 2011 | Carnet de Dubaï Hiver VI: Lumière et Reflets | Self |
| 2010 | Cave of Forgotten Dreams | Narrator (voice) |
| 2010 | Happy People: A Year in the Taiga | Narrator (voice) |
| 2010 | When Herzog Rescued Phoenix | Narrator (voice) |
| 2010 | Werner Herzog Defends Dade | Self |
| 2010 | Behind the Madness: The Making of My Son, My Son | Self |
| 2009 | Parks and Recreation | Keg Jennings |
| 2009 | Plastic Bag | Plastic Bag (voice) |
| 2009 | The Lonely | |
| 2008 | Mister Lonely | Father Umbrillo |
| 2008 | Capturing Reality | Self |
| 2008 | Gegenschuss - Aufbruch der Filmemacher | Self |
| 2008 | Back to Room 666 | Self (archive footage) |
| 2008 | BLAST! | Narrator (voice) |
| 2007 | Encounters at the End of the World | Narrator (voice) |
| 2007 | The Grand | The German |
| 2007 | Making of a True Story: Rescue Dawn | Self |
| 2007 | All In This Tea | |
| 2007 | Pierre Rissient: Man of Cinema | Self |
| 2007 | Münchner (Filmfest) Geschichten - 25 Jahre Filmfest München | Self |
| 2006 | The Henry Rollins Show | |
| 2006 | 50 Films to See Before You Die | Self |
| 2006 | Walking to Werner | Self (voice) |
| 2005 | American Dad! | Werner Herzog (voice) |
| 2005 | Grizzly Man | Self / Narrator (voice) |
| 2005 | The Colbert Report | |
| 2005 | Dreams and Burdens | Self |
| 2005 | Perpetuum mobile - Voces en el espacio azul | Self |
| 2005 | Q & A with Jana Sevcikova and Werner Herzog | Self |
| 2004 | Incident at Loch Ness | Self |
| 2004 | The White Diamond | Narrator (voice) |
| 2004 | Dribble | Self (voice) |
| 2004 | Kulturplatz | Self |
| 2003 | Rad der Zeit | Narrator (voice) |
| 2002 | Der Boxprinz | Self |
| 2002 | Erdbeerland | Turnlehrer |
| 2001 | The 100 Greatest Films | Self |
| 2000 | Julianes Sturz in den Dschungel | Self |
| 2000 | Der Ball ist ein Sauhund | Self |
| 2000 | Klaus Kinski - Ich bin kein Schauspieler | Self |
| 1999 | Mein liebster Feind | Self |
| 1999 | Julien Donkey-Boy | Father |
| 1999 | A Brief History of Errol Morris | Self |
| 1998 | What Dreams May Come | Face |
| 1997 | Little Dieter Needs to Fly | Narrator (voice) |
| 1996 | Die Verwandlung der Welt in Musik: Bayreuth vor der Premiere | Self |
| 1995 | Die Harald Schmidt Show | Self |
| 1995 | Tod für fünf Stimmen | Narrator (voice) |
| 1993 | Dangerous Game | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| 1993 | Glocken aus der Tiefe | Narrator (voice) |
| 1992 | Lektionen in Finsternis | Narrator (voice) |
| 1991 | Cerro Torre: Schrei aus Stein | TV-Regisseur |
| 1991 | Filmstunde | Self |
| 1991 | Jag Mandir: Das exzentrische Privattheater des Maharadscha von Udaipur | Narrator (voice) |
| 1991 | Schneeweißrosenrot | Self |
| 1990 | Es ist nicht leicht, ein Gott zu sein | Mita / Richard |
| 1990 | Echos aus einem düsteren Reich | Self |
| 1990 | Russisches Abenteuer. Peter Fleischmann dreht "Es ist nicht leicht, ein Gott zu sein." | Self |
| 1989 | The Simpsons | Walter Hotenhoffer (voice) |
| 1989 | The Simpsons | Werner Herzog (voice) |
| 1989 | The Simpsons | Dr. Lund (voice) |
| 1989 | Wodaabe - Die Hirten der Sonne. Nomaden am Südrand der Sahara | Narrator (voice) |
| 1989 | Gekauftes Glück | Businger |
| 1989 | Bis ans Ende... und dann noch weiter. Die ekstatische Welt des Filmemachers Werner Herzog | Self |
| 1987 | Location Africa | Self |
| 1986 | Werner Herzog: Filmemacher | Self |
| 1985 | Tokyo-Ga | Self |
| 1985 | Gasherbrum - Der leuchtende Berg | Self (voice) |
| 1984 | Wo die grünen Ameisen träumen | Lawyer (uncredited) |
| 1984 | Ballade vom kleinen Soldaten | Self (voice) |
| 1983 | Man of Flowers | The Father |
| 1982 | Burden of Dreams | Self - Filmmaker |
| 1982 | Chambre 666 | Self |
| 1982 | The South Bank Show: Werner Herzog | Self |
| 1981 | Glaube und Währung: Dr. Gene Scott, Fernsehprediger | Narrator (voice) |
| 1980 | Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe | Self |
| 1980 | Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers | Self - Film Director: Nosferatu |
| 1979 | Nosferatu - Phantom der Nacht | Hand and Feet in Box with Rats (uncredited) |
| 1979 | The Making of Nosferatu | Self |
| 1979 | Was ich bin, sind meine Filme | Self |
| 1977 | La Soufrière: Warten auf eine unausweichliche Katastrophe | Narrator (voice) |
| 1977 | Viaggio nella storia | Self |
| 1976 | Herz aus Glas | Glass Transporter |
| 1976 | How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck: Beobachtungen zu einer neuen Sprache | Self |
| 1975 | Midi Première | Self |
| 1975 | Lost in the Garden of the World | Self |
| 1974 | Die große Ekstase des Bildschnitzers Steiner | Self |
| 1974 | Spécial cinéma | Self |
| 1971 | Geschichten vom Kübelkind | Hurenmörder |
| 1968 | Lebenszeichen | Soldier (uncredited) |
| 1964 | Grimme-Preis-Verleihung | Self |
| 1951 | Deutscher Filmpreis | Self |
