Herzog’s new documentary, Into the Abyss, is not, however, the anti-death penalty polemic that his personal opposition to capital punishment might lead you to expect.

Werner Herzog's Into the Abyss is far bleaker than Errol Morris' Tabloid, but no less nuts.

November 11, 2011 Werner Herzog Goes ‘Into The Abyss’ of Capital Punishment Herzog’s film, which debuts today, opens at a time when debate over capital punishment has taken on renewed urgency.

Into the Abyss: A Tale of Death, a Tale of Life On one level, Werner Herzog's "Into the Abyss" is an appeal to end capital punishment, but it's not the kind of documentary that drives policy change.

Werner Herzog recently premiered his documentary, Into the Abyss, at the Telluride and Toronto Film Festivals, to polarizing reviews. It deals with death row inmates in the time before their ...

Werner Herzog on Capital Punishment, Interviewing Inmates and the Notes he Never Got (Q&A) "On Death Row," the four part docu-series follow up to Herzog's festival darling, "Into the Abyss ...

Werner Herzog is easily one of the most prolific filmmakers of his generation and continues to make films that are both compelling and mysterious examinations of the human soul. With thematic threads ...

Nearly every Werner Herzog movie has at least one Holy Crap moment, and the filmmaker’s gripping new death row documentary Into the Abyss, opening today in select theaters, is no exception.

Werner Herzog's "Into the Abyss" is the second high-profile 2011 documentary to focus on a murder for which men were sentenced to death.

If I were evaluating Werner Herzog's new documentary Into the Abyss solely on the basis of entertainment value, I could tell you that it's great. It's not an instant classic like Grizzly Man, but ...

Into the Abyss: A Tale of Death, a Tale of Life On one level, Werner Herzog's "Into the Abyss" is an appeal to end capital punishment, but it's not the kind of documentary that drives policy change.