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Little Dieter Needs to Fly (1997) is streaming on Amazon Prime. Also available on Kanopy with a participating library card.
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You can watch Little Dieter Needs to Fly (1997) on Kanopy with a participating library card, rent on Apple TV+, or buy on Apple TV+.
Three decades after German-American pilot Dieter Dengler was shot down over Laos, he returns to the places where he was held prisoner during the early years of the Vietnam War. Accompanied by director Werner Herzog, Dengler describes in unusually candid detail his captivity, the friendships he made, and his daring escape. Not willing to stop there, Herzog even persuades his subject to re-enact certain tortures, with the help of some willing local villagers.
A haunting, meditative stillness settles over the jungle as an aging pilot revisits the terrain of his former captivity. This intimate conversation between survivor and filmmaker captures the fragile, luminous edges of human endurance.
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Werner Herzog, Dieter Dengler, Eugene Deatrick
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Little Dieter Needs to Fly
You can watch Little Dieter Needs to Fly (1997) on Kanopy with a participating library card, rent on Apple TV+, or buy on Apple TV+.
IMDb
7.5/10
RT Critics
93%
Director
Cast
Werner Herzog, Dieter Dengler, Eugene Deatrick
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