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Free Film School #49: Tonight I'm Gonna Docu Tonight (Part 2)
Crave Online
If you like sea life, Heyerdahl is the man for you. Leni Riefenstahl (1902-2003) directed what is one of the most stirring and one of the most chilling documentaries of all time in Triumph of the Will, a Nazi propaganda film made during the terrifying ...


 
SoundSpike
Concert: Rammstein in Anaheim, CA
SoundSpike
Imagine a Technicolor Leni Riefenstahl film shot on a Ridley Scott "Aliens"-inspired set with a Wagnerian metal soundtrack on a stage hotter than the surface of the sun. Yes, Rammstein is Beavis' wet dream come to life. Surely there was a pyromaniac ...

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Telegraph.co.uk
London 2012 Olympics: torch relay began life as propaganda for Nazi Germany
Telegraph.co.uk
The most incriminating evidence of all can be found in 'Olympia', the official 1936 Games film directed by the Nazi sympathiser Leni Riefenstahl and funded by the party to the tune of 2million Reichsmarks. Riefenstahl may have fought to maintain some ...


 
BBC News
African viewpoint: Last of the Nuba?
BBC News
When Leni Riefenstahl published her pictorial masterpiece, The Last of the Nuba, back in 1974, she had spent many years among the Nuba in Sudan's remote central valleys, committing to moving and still films the lives of these Africans and their ...

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TIME
Secrets of the New All-TIME 100 Movies List
TIME
Leni Riefenstahl, meet Kathryn Bigelow. Killer of Sheep: Charles Burnett's portrait of a black family in the Watts section of Los Angeles circa 1973 finally got a proper theatrical and DVD release in 2007. That's when I saw the movie and was awed by it ...

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DJ Spooky's Remix Of 'Birth Of A Nation' At Twain House
Hartford Courant
Q: "Birth" is cited, along with Leni Riefenstahl's "Triumph of the Will," as the two movies in history that are both artistically brilliant and morally evil. What do you think of its artistic qualities? A: I guess you could say that propaganda creates ...


 
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Boston.com
In order to provide Leni Riefenstahl with impressive footage for her film “Olympia,” her cinematic celebration of the athletic perfection of the master-race, they conflated Athenian torch races and the sacred flame to come up with the torch relay ...

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