Award-winning documentary directed by Werner Herzog, about Dieter Dengler… who as a young German boy, witnessed allied bombings over Germany and who after moving to the U.S. after the war became enlisted in the Navy to fight in Vietnam. He was shot down, taken prisoner and tortured and escaped on foot through the jungle after a harrowing journey. Told through archival footage, dream sequences, recreations in actual jungle locations, exotic music, and surreal imagery.