Werner Herzog directed this fascinating 1982 film about a man pursuing a dream with almost monomaniacal zeal – a description which may have fit Herzog’s approach to filming on location. Klaus Kinski plays Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald, whose plan is to bring opera to the Amazonian jungle. It’s a plan that requires him to drag a large riverboat across a mountain to traverse from one body of water to another – and Herzog, in recreating the efforts, took no shortcuts. I first saw this movie when it was released 34 years ago, and I’ve been a diehard Herzog fan ever since. Find the History cable network’s sister network History2 (or H2), tune in, and see why.