Fitzcarraldo

Werner Herzog, 1982, Germany (9.0*)
Awesome achievement, as Klaus Kinski plays a wealthy European obsessed with bringing opera, and wife Claudia Cardinale to the Brazilian jungles, which involves moving a large boat up a mountain to a large inland lake so it can navigate inland waterways. The film crew actually did this, so half the film is really about making the film! This becomes a huge adventure, unlike anything ever filmed about one man's obsessed dream.

Les Blank made a documentary of this shooting at the same time, working alongside Herzog. Burden of Dreams is one of the best films about a film ever made. These two films make a perfect double feature as this is one of the greatest adventures ever put on film.