Only now as she approaches her 100th birthday next month does the legendary Leni Riefenstahl admit that age is slowing down the pioneering film maker who became notorious as Adolf Hitler's favourite ...

Historian Jérôme Bimbenet discusses the paradoxes of the German director, who is the subject of a new documentary 'Riefenstahl' by Andres Veiel.

Many scenes—imperial eagles silhouetted against the sky, drummers drumming—offered shot-for-shot echoes of “Triumph of the Will” (1935), Leni Riefenstahl ’s propaganda film about the Nazis.

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.

PCSA stated that it expelled the media house because of an opinion piece stating that journalist Karyn Maughan shared similarities with the Nazi filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl in that she operated as ...

The expulsion stems from the group’s refusal to retract a column comparing News24 journalist Karyn Maughan to Nazi propagandist Leni Riefenstahl.

Her colonial style of dress is meant to cast Riefenstahl as an ethnographer, an aging photographer-researcher, while the African man’s towering, gleaming body is fully exposed. His is a lean and ...

A new documentary film proves Leni Riefenstahl to have been a convinced Nazi right up to her death Leni Riefenstahl became famous with films she produced for the Nazis between1932 and 1945.

Tom Jacobson's new plays 'The Bauhaus Project' and 'Crevasse' are thrilling in the scope of their ambition. They are also unsettling as America faces its own fascist peril.

Helene 'Leni' Riefenstahl died 21 years ago at age 101, after spending more than half her life trying to shed aspects of a questionable legacy.

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 ...