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Commissioned to make a propaganda film about the 1936 Olympic Games in Germany, director Leni Riefenstahl created a celebration of the human form....
Olympia: Part One – Festival of the Nations
Explores Leni Riefenstahl's artistic legacy and her complex ties to the Nazi regime, juxtaposing her self-portrayal with evidence suggesting...
Riefenstahl
Set in the early part of 20th century Europe. There lived a dancer who becomes the romantic bone of contention between a humble shepherd and an...
Lowlands
Film journalist and critic Rüdiger Suchsland examines German cinema from 1933, when the Nazis came into power, until 1945, when the Third Reich...
Hitler's Hollywood
Dr. Johannes Krafft climbs a 12,000-foot mountain over and over again to search for his wife, who was lost on their honeymoon. Another couple makes...
The White Hell of Pitz Palu
This documentary recounts the life and work of one of most famous, and yet reviled, German film directors in history, Leni Riefenstahl. The film...
The Wonderful, Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl
A young woman, Junta, lives apart from her village and, for her solitude and strangeness, is considered to be a witch; when she comes to the village...
The Blue Light
Professional dancer Diotima finds herself the apex of a love triangle when she is pursued by two mountain climbers, Vigo and his older friend.
The Holy Mountain
An expedition goes in search of a party lost in the Arctic the year before. The English language version of this German film was made at the same...
S.O.S. Iceberg
A meditation on the first 100 years of German cinema, featuring an assembly of German filmmakers.
The Night of the Filmmakers
A young Italian girl living in the Dolomites falls in love with a member of a tourist party skiing on the nearby mountains.
The Great Leap
In a lonely outpost atop the treacherous Mont Blanc, an intrepid scientist lives with minimal connection to the world below. Through the telegraph,...
Storm Over Mont Blanc
Riefenstahl explores the undersea world of coral reefs in various oceans around the world. Soundtrack by Giorgio Moroder.
Underwater Impressions
Leni, a daring young girl, is visiting for the second time a ski-resort. The local ski-teachers agree to organize a "fox-hunt" for her. Leni and...
White Ecstasy
The perfect body as an object of cult worship. Based on the mass sports and body worship movement of the 1920s, the film propagates physical training...
Ways to Strength and Beauty
At the age of 97 Riefenstahl returns to Sudan for one final farewell to the Nuba that she lived with for 8 months and photographed and filmed...
Leni Riefenstahl: Her Dream of Africa
An expedition goes in search of a party lost in the Arctic the year before. This is the English language version of the German film S.O.S. Eisberg...
Les Champions d'Hitler
LENI
From Stag Beetle to Swastika narrates in a richly detailed, associative montage the boundless possibilities of manipulating images and using images...
From Stag Beetle to Swastika
Edited from almost 100 km of film footage shot during the Games, this feature documentary is a breathtaking portrait of the 1976 Montreal Olympics....
Games of the XXI Olympiad
Filmmaker Jonas Mekas films 160 underground film people over four decades.
Birth of a Nation
An interview with infamous German filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl carried out by Sandra Maischberger in preparation for the subject's 100th birthday, and...
The Immoderation of Me - Sandra Maischberger meets Leni Riefenstahl
Kino kolossal - Herkules, Maciste & Co
Das Schicksal derer von Habsburg
The film tells the cultural story of Berlin during the Weimar Republic through interviews with a number of persons who were involved in literature,...
Memories of Berlin: The Twilight of Weimar Culture
A semi-documentary account of the author Thomas Wolfe's trip to Berlin in the summer of 1936.
Memories of a Summer in Berlin
Documentary continuing Breloer's exploration of Speer's life, focusing on the post-Spandau years.
Speer und er: Nachspiel - Die Täuschung
An investigation of Leni Riefenstahl’s infamous film production of “Tiefland” during the Holocaust, one which used Sinti extras...
Time of Darkness and Silence
Countless people around the world know the pictures from Leni Riefenstahl's films, even if they have not seen them in their entirety. The work of the...
Leni Riefenstahl - The End of a Myth