this film be excellent . fear of watch documentary movie . cancel your shrink and watch little dieter story . you would not believe how captivate this fine piece of film making be until you have experience it . i be eager to say that it even out go almost any vietnam war movie and include apocalypse now . it a real story and it a personal story and a story about the love for fly and the dream of be a pilot and the nightmare of be shoot down above enemy territory . all be shoot in a return to . style at location and herzog ask the question and dieter answer them in a memorable german english accent and and with fine remembrance point out what happen where about 25 year before . there be this part that i tell friend over and over again represent bail out from his u navy plane and dieter become a pow of the vietcong . blindfold for the great part of the day and he be be drag through the southeast asian jungle for mile and mile on bare foot . torture and insult and disorientate and hunger and cover with infectuous wound and they arrive in a small and friendly village to spend the night . the next morning and after walk for several hour and dieter discovers someone steal his wed ring from his finger . that be it . he can take no more . he start to cry and a a result of complete exhaustion . the vietcong men react surprise . dieter manage to explain what happen . immediately and the group return to the village and start search for the person that steal the ring . they find the man and immediately chop of his finger and return the ring to dieter . the movie be full of these mind boggling and surprising situation . the immense cultural difference and the clash of east and west and the fear of the unknown ( i. e. all that stand for america on the one hand and the asian jungle and his secret on the other ) can be sense the entire movie . back problem . that because you sit at the edge of your seat for two hour and do not notice .