Timothy “Grizzly Man” Treadwell was an amateur ‘bear whisperer’ and nature enthusiast, who spent 13 years of his life trying to befriend and protect the bears in Alaska. He took copious amounts of footage up until his death in 2003 of a bear mauling.

Director Werner Herzog pieced this documentary together with Treadwell’s footage to tell his story, including a scene where the director listens to the recording of the final mauling, and is visibly shaken. This is a documentary about hubris and about misunderstanding the fact that some animals should be left alone.