Self-taught naturalist Timothy Treadwell spent many summers living unarmed in the wilds of Alaska, obsessively filming the activities of grizzly bears. His methods were seen by qualified researchers as misguided, cavalier and exceptionally dangerous, and ended with his death by bear attack in 2003.

Werner Herzog realized one of his most (and justly!) renowned films with this portrait of the tragic environmentalist Timothy Treadwell. Grizzly Man is perhaps the German auteur’s most lucid rumination on a theme so central to his prolific career: humanity’s tenuous relationship with nature.