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 ...

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 ...

Berlin is making a bid to host the Olympic and Paralympic Games, potentially marking a century since the controversial 1936 Games held under Nazi rule. Mayor Kai Wegner is set to unveil the city's ...

Leni Riefenstahl wanted to be remembered. The German filmmaker, who directed the infamous 1935 Nazi propaganda film “Triumph of the Will” that was commissioned by Adolf Hitler, intended for her estate ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...