Out now on Blu-ray, this 1972 art-house classic by German director Werner Herzog depicts a gradual descent from bad intentions through madness and deepening hallucination. Klaus Kinski stars as a conquistador who gains control through fear and violence over a mission seeking El Dorado in the depths of the Amazon. Eventually, the lure of gold is supplanted by a nihilistic will to power and to shape history that could serve as a metaphor for Hitler.
