Burden of Dreams (1982) is a feature-length documentary and making-of directed by Les Blank, shot during and about the chaotic production of Werner Herzog's 1982 film Fitzcarraldo, filmed in the jungles of South America.
Field of Dreams | California Dreams Tour | Island Dreams | Hoop Dreams | Winter Dreams | Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) | Dreams That Money Can Buy | Henry John Burden | Gandalf Murphy and the Slambovian Circus of Dreams | Dreams | Winter Dreams (ballet) | Vegas, City of Dreams | The Hall of the Olden Dreams | Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) (song) | Legal burden of proof | Joseph: King of Dreams | James A. Burden II | Dreams of Children | Cocktails & Dreams | Willie Burden | Violet's Dreams | The Wizard of Oz in Concert: Dreams Come True | The White Man's Burden | The Stealers of Dreams | These Dreams | The Interpretation of Dreams | The Book of Dreams | The Black Man's Burden | Public Dreams Society | Power of Dreams |
The film contains excerpts and commentary on several Herzog films, including Signs of Life, Heart of Glass, Fata Morgana, Aguirre, the Wrath of God, The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner, Fitzcarraldo, and the Les Blank documentary Burden of Dreams.
Blank went on to direct Burden of Dreams (1982), a feature-length documentary about Herzog and the making of Fitzcarraldo.