A devastating and heart-wrenching take on grizzly bear activists Timothy Treadwell and Amie Huguenard, who were killed in October of 2003 while living among grizzlies in Alaska.
AMG Plot: Filmmaker Werner Herzog adds another real-life character to his growing pantheon of people who walk a fine line between visionary genius and madness in this documentary. Timothy Treadwell was a self-styled authority on bears who, starting in 1990, would spend as much time as possible each year in Alaska, camping out near a grizzly bear habitat. While Treadwell claimed to love the bears and felt as one with them, he had no formal training in their behavior, and while familiarizing himself with the creatures he would walk within a few feet of them with a video camera in hand. To many, Treadwell seemed part man of nature, part conjuror, and part self-promotion expert, but the part that guided his kinship with the bears failed him in 2003, when he and his girlfriend were killed in a grizzly attack. Treadwell shot hundreds of hours of footage of himself and the grizzlies, and Herzog has used this footage as the core of Grizzly Man, a documentary look at Treadwell's life and death, while also including interviews with people who knew him, animal experts, and scientists. Acclaimed British guitarist Richard Thompson composed and performed the film's musical score. — Mark Deming
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Werner Herzog | Self |
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Carol Dexter | Self - Treadwell's Mother |
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Val Dexter | Self - Treadwell's Father |
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Sam Egli | Self - Egli Air Haul |
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Franc G. Fallico | Self - Coroner |
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Willy Fulton | Self - Pilot |
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Marc Gaede | Self - Ecologist |
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Marnie Gaede | Self - Ecologist |
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Sven Haakanson Jr. | Self - Alutiiq Museum Director |
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Amie Huguenard | Self |
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David Letterman | Self |
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Jewel Palovak | Self |
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Kathleen Parker | Self - Close Friend |
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Warren Queeney | Self - Actor and Close Friend |
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Timothy Treadwell | Self |
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Larry Van Daele | Self - Bear Biologist |
| Director | Werner Herzog |
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| Writer | Werner Herzog | |
| Producer | Kevin L. Beggs, Alana Berry, Billy Campbell, Phil Fairclough, Nick Huntley, Andrea Meditch, Erik Nelson, Tom Ortenberg, Jewel Palovak | |
| Musician | Richard Thompson | |
| Photography | Peter Zeitlinger | |
| Packaging | Keep Case |
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| Nr Discs | 1 |
| Screen Ratios | Anamorphic Widescreen (1.85:1) |
| Audio Tracks | ENGLISH: Dolby Digital 5.1 |
| Subtitles | English (Closed Captioned) | Spanish |
| Distributor | Lions Gate |
| Layers | Single side, Single layer |
| Edition Release Date | Dec 26, 2005 |
| Regions | 1 |