The Wild Blue Yonder is a 2005 science fiction fantasy film by German director Werner Herzog.

Most of the film consists of recontextualized documentary footage which is overlaid with fictional (sometimes fantastical) narration.

The film is about an extraterrestrial (played by Brad Dourif) who came to Earth several decades ago from a water planet (The Wild Blue Yonder) after it experienced an ice age.

An exploratory mission was launched to Blue Yonder (represented using archive footage from the STS-34 Space Shuttle mission and Henry Kaiser's diving expedition in Antarctica)[1][3] to explore the possibility of establishing a new, uninfected human colony on the planet.

After finding Blue Yonder suitable for human habitation, the astronauts returned home 820 years later, only to discover that Earth had been abandoned in their absence.