In 1934, German filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl directed and produced the film "Triumph of the Will," funded directly by Adolf Hitler. It has long been universally regarded as the gold standard of ...

Democracy is on the decline across the globe, with the rise of populist leaders who attack minority groups and the institutions that function as a check and balance. This worrying creep towards ...

Decades’ worth of legendary film critics cite the stylistic brilliance of Leni Riefenstahl. Pauline Kael described her two most infamous works, Triumph Of The Will and Olympia, as “the two greatest ...

Leni Riefenstahl’s Triumph of the Will (1935) is rightly famous (and notorious) as the most powerful propaganda film ever made: a documentary account of the Nazis’ massive, staged-for-the-camera ...

Der neue Film „Riefenstahl“ von Andres Veiel über die Nazi Propaganda-Filmerin Leni Riefenstahl (1902 – 2003) stößt auf großes Interesse. Er verzeichnet bereits nach wenigen Tagen für einen ...

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 ...

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 ...

Steven Bach (1938-2009) author of the biography “Leni: The Life and Work of Leni Riefenstahl”, interviewed in 2007 by Richard Wolinsky. This podcast was first posted May 5, 2017. Leni Riefenstahl was ...

Brandeis University professor Thomas Doherty looks back on the Nazi director's 1938 visit to Hollywood ahead of the BBC Radio 4 broadcast of Colin Shindler's new radio play 'Leni Goes to Hollywood.' ...

Leni Riefenstahl remains a problem to be solved, not because there’s any doubt about who she was, but because we are uncertain as to who we are. Riefenstahl, a filmmaker of exceptional talent, worked ...

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 ...