Love him or hate him, it seems everybody who's ever come across the work of Danish auteur Lars von Trier has a strong opinion about him. The man has the ability to divide audiences like few others and stands as one of the great provocateurs of world film today. But buried in the hubbub of the arguments he tends to cause it's easy to overlook just what a great innovator and influencer of film he has been. One of the four founders of the Dogme 95 movement, von Trier championed a return to simplicity in film that influenced film makers around the globe and whose repercussions are still being felt today. He's challenged ideas about how to use technology, experimented with how film can interact with an audience and consistently shown a fantastic eye for the brightest young talents in his part of the world with more than a few young actors launching their careers thanks to roles in a von Trier film. He casts a huge shadow as a producer and distributor of film, his companies owning production houses, sound stages, sales outfits and just about anything else you could care to name, right on down to porn label Puzzy Power.

Beyond the industry influence von Trier has always proven a fascinating person. Famously neurotic he refuses to fly and, as a consequence, will likely never set foot away from continental Europe - a fact that infuriated many Americans when his very America-critical Dogville was released. He has gone on record stating that his own fears and neuroses served as a primary influence for his sterling TV horror mini-series The Kingdom - a series that will likely never be finished due to far too many of the cast dying off. Von Trier is famous for his ego as much as his work - the 'von' is purely an affectation that he added to his own name in film school to make himself sound more important - and can be so difficult for actors to work with on set that while shooting Dancer in the Dark Bjork famously removed her blouse, tore it into strips and ate it when he refused to consider a costume change. Which says as much about her as him, true enough, but you get the point.

What follows beneath are trailers for all of his theatrical features, two films he has written for other directors and his TV series The Kingdom. As much as there is, however, there are a few things missing that I'd really like to add: if anyone out there has a trailer for his TV movie Medea, his non-Kingdom TV series work, any of his student work, or the D-Dag millennium project he did for Danish national television with the other three Dogme founders please upload them to the system.