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Documentaries like Lessons of Darkness

Not everyone loves Lessons of Darkness for the same reason. Pick the one that was yours, and the picks follow.

The 3 reasons people love Lessons of Darkness

Read them all. One will sound more like you than the others.

  1. You like burning oil fields filmed like an alien world.

  2. You like images carried by Wagner and Verdi.

  3. You like Werner Herzog's strange, poetic way of seeing.

Picks that share your reasons

Which reasons were yours?

Tick them here or with “That’s me” above. The picks re-sort by how many of your reasons they share.

  • Powaqqatsi1988

    • burning oil fields filmed like an alien world
    • images carried by Wagner and Verdi

    Good for you if you like faces and crowds filmed in slow motion.

  • Naqoyqatsi2002

    • burning oil fields filmed like an alien world
    • images carried by Wagner and Verdi
    • Werner Herzog's strange, poetic way of seeing

    Good for you if you like letting images wash over you for an hour and a half.

  • The Image Book2018

    • burning oil fields filmed like an alien world

    Good for you if you like images cut, saturated and set against each other.

  • Encounters at the End of the World2008

    • Werner Herzog's strange, poetic way of seeing

    Good for you if you like Werner Herzog's odd questions to odd people.

  • Voyage of Time: Life's Journey2017

    • burning oil fields filmed like an alien world

    Good for you if you want galaxies, volcanoes and cells as pure images.

  • 2001: A Space Odyssey1968

    • burning oil fields filmed like an alien world

    Good for you if you like spaceships waltzing to the Blue Danube in perfectly composed frames.

  • Apocalypse Now1979

    • burning oil fields filmed like an alien world
    • images carried by Wagner and Verdi

    Good for you if you like images of war that look like a fever dream.

  • The Wild Blue Yonder2005

    • burning oil fields filmed like an alien world
    • Werner Herzog's strange, poetic way of seeing

    Good for you if you like Werner Herzog turning real footage into a science fiction tale.

  • Human2015

    • burning oil fields filmed like an alien world
    • images carried by Wagner and Verdi

    Good for you if you like aerial images of the Earth that hold you still.

  • Waltz with Bashir2008

    • burning oil fields filmed like an alien world

    Good for you if you like dreamlike animated images, like soldiers rising from the sea at night.

  • Angel's Egg1985

    • burning oil fields filmed like an alien world
    • Werner Herzog's strange, poetic way of seeing

    Good for you if you like Yoshitaka Amano's designs in dark, flooded streets.

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