Ghost Elephants

About Ghost Elephants

In Angola's mist-shrouded highlands, three KhoiSan master trackers embark on a spiritual quest to rediscover the legendary "ghost elephants" of Lisima, creatures presumed lost but remembered in ancestral trance, ritual, and memory.

Werner Herzog's Ghost Elephants is a 2026 documentary film. At 99 minutes long, it arrived in February 2026.

Werner Herzog takes the lead as Self - Narrator (voice), Steve Boyes as Self, Kerllen Costa as Self - Environmental Anthropologist, and Xui as Self. Written by Werner Herzog.

Shelv files it under nature documentary, human animal relationship, animal documentary, and elephant. In the United States it streams on Disney Plus, Hulu, and YouTube TV.

In the Footsteps of Elephant, A Life Among Elephants, and March of the Penguins make useful companions to Ghost Elephants. It scores 7.6 out of 10 from 69 TMDB voters and it carries a NR rating.