Man on Wire is the story of Frenchman Phillippe Petit. In 1974 Petit walked a tight rope stretched between the tops of the towers of the World Trade Center in New York…without a net or rope. Petit was up for around an hour before police arrested him.

Though legendary director Werner Herzog easily leaps between fiction (RESCUE DAWN) and nonfiction (GRIZZLY MAN), he returns to documentary with this beautifully shot film. In ENCOUNTERS AT THE END OF THE WORLD, Herzog narrates his exploration of McMurdo Station, the Antarctic home to more than a thousand people during the region’s “warmest” months.  [...]