One of my favorite films is Fitzcarraldo, a Werner Herzog film that I was introduced to by my friend Ned Shenton.  This film, and a companion film, Burden of Dreams, about the making of Fitzcarraldo, are wacky stories about the Amazon, Opera, impossible goals, mystery, and darkness.

Fitzcardboardaldo, is an homage to Fitzcarraldo, done by artist Robin Frohardt, rendered in corrugated cardboard models.  The companion piece, The Corrugation of Dreams is even funnier, with it's over dubbing of Werner Herzog's voice reflecting about the drama and angst of the Amazon and the jungle.


So, for your viewing pleasure, here thanks to YouTube I present both the Originals and the Cardboard trailers of Fitzcarraldo and Fitzcardboardaldo and Burden of Dreams and The Corrugation of Dreams.

As with everything, nothing is simple.  

It turns out most of what I have wanted to download is on YouTube and for that I use a free program called 

YTD Video downloader  (http://www.youtubedownloadersite.com).  

I use the non-upgraded version.  You can see the difference between the basic free version versus the $30/year ! version at 

http://www.youtubedownloadersite.com/premium.html?ft=0  

Contrary to its name, the documentation makes the claim "Download from YouTube, Facebook and 60+ popular sites".  I don't know if that is indeed true, but it seems to have done the job for me in the past.

Frequently when looking for such things, I use http://download.com.  They are a pretty good place to get reliable, free software that is free of bad stuff.  Here is a list of the video downloaders that they use: 

http://download.cnet.com/windows/download-managers/?tag=bc  

You might find something there if YTD Video Downloader doesn't work on a site.

Another very useful tool I always have around is VLC Media Player 

http://www.videolan.org/

This is an amazing program that seems to be able to play almost any video, and can convert from a video formatted in one representation to another representation.

Good luck and let me know if you find and really good downloaders.