A dancer and a movie star before turning to directing, Leni Riefenstahl was unable to continue making films after the war -- punishment for her "Triumph of the Will," a record of the Nuremberg ...

Recent access to Leni Riefenstahl’s estate has prompted new discussions in Germany about her politics and a reconsideration of her photographs of the Nuba people in Sudan.

Is Leni Riefenstahl’s Olympia Nazi propaganda – or the greatest film about sport ever made? Nicholas Barber takes a look.

The German filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl died September 8 at the age of 101. Riefenstahl is above all known for her close collaboration with the Nazi regime in the thirties, when at Hitler’s ...

Riefenstahl’s epic life in film was fittingly chronicled in an epic motion-picture documentary, The Wonderful, Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl (1993), made by the director Ray Müller.

The debate about Leni Riefenstahl has been parsed in books and articles, in television interviews, in Sontag's indictment, and in the fantastic three-hour-long 1993 documentary "The Wonderful ...

That would make for an illuminating study, but I’d like to concentrate on the photograph’s caption, “Leni Riefenstahl’s photographs celebrate the beauty and sensuality of tribal people in ...

Riefenstahl proves that the best documentary subjects are monsters The Nazi propagandist is seen in a startling new film repeatedly refusing to talk about her relationship with Hitler – and it ...

The death of Leni Riefenstahl, maker of the classic Nazi-era German documentaries “Triumph of the Will” and “Olympia,” raises again some arguments endlessly debated but never resolved. To ...

Maughan and Riefenstahl are in the same WhatsApp group, cut from the same cloth, although at different historical times. One used film to manipulate public opinion, whilst the other used ...

The infamous and virtuosic Nazi filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl made the two documentaries she became legendary for, “Triumph of the Will” (1935) and “Olympiad” (1938), nearly 90 years ago. She ...