The 2006 film is based on true events. Our TV movie pick for tonight (Wednesday, 3 June) is Rescue Dawn, the 2006 war ...

In 1998, Werner Herzog released the documentary "Little Dieter Needs to Fly," about the German-American pilot and Vietnam POW Dieter Dengler, to much fanfare among critics and documentarians. In this ...

Christian Bale doesn’t wear tights, a mask or cape in his latest film, “Rescue Dawn,” but his character is no less heroic than Batman. Bale, currently filming the next Batman movie, “The Dark Knight,” ...

German film director Werner Herzog made a promise to his friend, Dieter Dengler, a decorated Vietnam war hero he often visited at his home in Marin County. Herzog vowed to make a movie about his ...

When Navy bomber pilot Dieter Dengler turned up alive, six months after being shot down and taken captive in Laos in 1966, Bruce Henderson was there to greet the plane that delivered him back to his ...

Nothing if not appropriate for summer blockbuster season, Werner Herzog’s latest feature, based on his 1997 documentary Little Dieter Needs to Fly, offers a suitably fantastic tale of war, freedom and ...

If you’re looking to watch something intense, gripping and genuinely underrated based on a true story, this war film deserves to jump straight to the top of your list. Often overshadowed by bigger ...

Reid Goldberg is a features writer for Collider. Having grown up in the Midwest, he attended the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee. While he's begrudingly accepted that a FIlm Studies degree wasn't ...

It was supposed to be a "routine" bombing mission, but it becomes a lot less routine when the squadron crosses over into Laos: Dieter Dengler's plane is brought down by anti-aircraft fire. Though he ...

“Little Dieter Needs to Fly is not a great Werner Herzog film, but because it’s a good Werner Herzog film, it’s of greater interest than almost anything else out there at the moment.” So began my ...