Her films were taught for decades in U.S. film schools for their pictographic excellence, her images bold and dramatic. The context in which they were made, however, was so difficult to justify that ...

Some might wonder why, in 2025, yet another documentary about Leni Riefenstahl, Hitler's favorite propagandist, is needed. The answer, provided by Riefenstahl filmmaker Andres Veiel during a Q&A ...

To what degree was infamous filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl a Nazi collaborator who knew about Adolf Hitler’s concentration camps? In the documentary “Riefenstahl,” which debuted at the 2024 Venice Film ...

Bad timing explains the Film Society of Lincoln Center’s presentation of Riefenstahl, Andres Veiel’s documentary about the late German actress and filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl. The exhibition of ...

Leni Riefenstahl, the German filmmaker whose daringly innovative documentaries about a Nazi rally in Nuremberg in 1934 and the Berlin Olympics of 1936 earned her both acclaim as a cinematic genius and ...

Propagandists for evil, when exposed, have their work cut out for them. After the Nazis were defeated, “Triumph of the Will” director Leni Riefenstahl, stripped of her Third Reich protections but ...

A new documentary about Leni Riefenstahl shows that aesthetics and politics are inextricably linked, and that no image is innocent when wielded by the state. Leni Riefenstahl checks her appearance for ...

That’s not how Leni Riefenstahl wanted to be remembered. No, she preferred a more self-serving myth – that she was “only an artist,” perhaps a bit naïve, who took on filmic “assignments” from the ...

Ready to watch 'Leni Riefenstahl: Her Dream of Africa' on any device? Figuring out where to stream, rent, buy, or watch how to watch the Ray Müller-helmed movie can be tricky so we at Moviefone are ...

Leni Riefenstahl checks her appearance for the recording of the three-part documentary Speer und Er by director Heinrich Breloer (1999) (© Bavaria Media) A woman roaming the mountainside splashes her ...