Seven years before Francis Ford Coppola released Apocalypse Now, and 28 years before Dreamworks released The Road to El Dorado, Werner Herzog went into the Peruvian jungle with the half-deranged Klaus Kinski and made a film about Spanish conquistadors traveling down the unforgiving Amazon river in search of the mythical city of El Dorado. It is a movie about madness and power and obsession. The use of the hand-held camera, giving the film an immediate documentary feel, predates by almost 25 years the “novel” use of a hand-held camera in Breaking the Waves . “I, the wrath of God, will marry my own daughter and with her I’ll found the purest dynasty the earth has ever seen.” On a sinking man-made raft full of monkeys, even.