Herzog's film of the Gulf War oil fires filmed in 1991, appears to be aiming for something bigger than the standard documentary put out a fire thing. I would venture to guess it is some sort of hallucinatory vision of the end of the world set in a literally burning desert hell.
The film is particularly effective when the oil fires are being photographed from a helicopter that slowly flies near them and in some cases even through them.
The background music consisted of Wagner, Mahler and Grieg. The music adds a deliberate grandeur to the fire imagery of the film reinforcing the "fires in Hell" theme.
Herzog's only interview is with a woman who has seen her children die during the war and has lost the power to speak. I would assume that people living in hell don't get much of a chance to speak for themselves.
The film is about an hour long and is available on YouTube.
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