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Les Blank's 1982 documentary Burden of Dreams, about the production of the film, documents the many hardships of the production. Blank's footage, some of which also appears in Herzog's Portrait Werner Herzog and My Best Fiend contains some of the only surviving footage of Robards and Jagger in Fitzcarraldo and many scenes documenting the ship's journey over the mountain.
Herzog's personal diaries from the production were published in 2009 as the book Conquest of the Useless, published by Ecco Press. The book includes an epilogue with Herzog's views on the Peruvian jungle 20 years later.
The Metalocalypse episode "Dethcarraldo" parodies elements of the film, including a scene where a massive boat is pulled over a mountain.
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