German actor Klaus Kinski appeared in over 130 films and built a 40-year career on explosive intensity, much of it tied to a documented personality disorder.

This episode separates his fabricated war-hero mythology from reality, examines his violent collaborations with director Werner Herzog, and confronts the abuse later revealed by his daughters.

• The invented desertion story later dismantled by Werner Herzog
• His 1950 psychiatric hold and clinical diagnosis
• The fast, cheap European film industry that suited his temperament
• The volatile Herzog partnership on Aguirre and Fitzcarraldo
• Daughter Pola's 2013 abuse revelations, corroborated by Nastassja