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Grizzly Man

Werner Herzog, Director

2005 | 103 | Sundance Film Festival

Appeared at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival Filmmaker Werner Herzog (AGUIRRE) has been drawn repeatedly to dark tales of delusional obsessives at odds with the natural world. In this award-winning documentary, Herzog recounts the story of Timothy Treadwell, a charming idealist who fancied himself the lone guardian of the grizzly bear. For more than a decade, Treadwell filmed and lived among grizzlies in the wilds of Alaska, a reckless intimacy that inevitably ended when he and his girlfriend were killed and eaten by a bear in 2003. Best Documentary, Directors Guild of America.