This article is part of Climbing's ongoing Who's Who biographical study of climbing's all-time greats, achievers, and, in the case of Aleister Crowley and Leni Rienfenstahl, its most notorious and ...

“My life would have been nicer if I’d died at the peak of my career,” says Leni Riefenstahl in Andres Veiel’s new documentary about her, simply titled “Riefenstahl.” It’s a revealing if characteristic ...

Beginning on March 13, Brave New World Repertory Theatre will debut its 2024 Season with the world premiere of “Leni’s Last Lament,” a one-woman show about the controversial World War II filmmaker ...

NEW YORK — I wish this movie came out 50 years ago. Or at least when Leni Riefenstahl, the incredibly gifted film director and close associate of the Nazi party, was alive and on her decades-long “I ...

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. By Thomas Rogers Two decades ...

Andres Veiel’s documentary “Riefenstahl,” which challenges the carefully crafted public persona of one of Germany’s most controversial directors, is one of 17 German films playing in the various ...

Leni Riefenstahl wanted to be remembered. The German filmmaker, who directed the infamous 1935 Nazi propaganda film “Triumph of the Will” that was commissioned by Adolf Hitler, intended for her estate ...

Look at the world through Leni Riefenstahl’s lens, and a high diver doesn’t just dive. She flies. In one of the iconic images from her award-winning 1938 film Olympia, you see nothing but a glistening ...