Burden of Dreams

Oh, AI can make sort-of-OK imagery and will negate the film industry? Great, well Werner Herzog spent years in the jungle, hired engineers to design a way of getting a 320-ton steamboat over a mountain, killed and maimed a few people in the whole filmmaking process and negotiated a land treaty for a native tribe to make "Fitzcarraldo," but yeah I'm sure it'll be the same. The great documentarian Les Blank immortalized the insanity of the making of "Fitzcarraldo" in "Burden of Dreams," and it is absolutely gripping. Even if you haven't watched "Fitzcarraldo," you can't help but get sucked into the absolutely wild production of it - and then you will want to watch it, and ask yourself if it was worth it, and then ask yourself what art is worth. 

There is no one like Werner Herzog 

This feat of engineering took years to accomplish 

Klaus Kinski, the lead actor - according to Herzog (immaculately believable), the tribe they worked with offered to kill him because he was so irritating. But Kinski had some fair points! He was trapped in a jungle and nearly injured more than once. Very hard to imagine Jason Robards, the original lead who got dysentery midway through and had to leave, in this role, but I'm sure he would have been great too.