Little Dieter Needs to Fly

Werner Herzog directed this interesting documentary about a German man who came to America after WWII because he wanted to become a pilot. He joins the Navy and finds himself as a pilot in Vietnam where he is shot down and becomes a POW in a hellish camp for months. The film is basically the man telling his story to the camera. Herzog takes him back to the location of many of the key events of his story and asks him to reinact them. His stories of torture in the camp and then his miraculous escape are tense and make me very glad that I am sitting here comfortably in my own roon rather than fighting snakes for a rat to eat. It's quite a story and Herzog provides some strong imagery to back it up. Plus, I now know how to escape from handcuffs (should the occasion ever arise).