Leni Riefenstahl was a liar. She was many other things: a dancer, an athlete, an actress, a feminist, an explorer, a best-selling author and even the world's oldest licensed scuba diver. But she was ...

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 ...

EXCLUSIVE: German filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl won Venice Film Festival’s now defunct Mussolini Cup for best foreign film twice in the 1930s for Triumph of the Will and Olympia. The films, capturing the ...

Had she been born in America instead of Germany – or had she emigrated at some point before 1932 – Leni Riefenstahl might have gone down in history as one of Hollywood’s greatest stars. Tall and ...

Filmmaker and actor Leni Riefenstahl has been the subject of a slew of documentaries over the years, many attempting to unravel the truth about her relationship with the Nazi Party. Was the director ...

Kino Lorber has acquired North American rights to Andres Veiel’s Venice prizewinning documentary “Riefenstahl,” a critical portrait of Leni Riefenstahl, a filmmaker and Nazi propagandist who was close ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Propagandists for evil, when exposed, have their work cut out for them. After the Nazis were defeated, “Triumph of the Will” ...

Andres Veiel’s documentary Riefenstahl – unpicking the deceits of German filmmaker and Nazi propagandist Leni Riefenstahl – has scored a slew of deals following its world premiere at Venice and North ...

Her documentaries earned her acclaim as a cinematic genius, as well as criticism for putting her talent at the service of Hitler. By Alan Riding This cleareyed documentary looks at how Leni ...

Toward the end of her long and controversial life (she died at age 101 in 2003), German director Leni Riefenstahl, forever infamous as “Hitler’s filmmaker,” began to earn some grudging respect - if ...