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Film Triumph of the Will (1935)

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Filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl's legacy rose and fell with her disreputable subjects, Adolf Hitler and his Third Reich — such that, despite her innovations in cinematography and her poetic, Wagnerian approach, the Nazi-symbol asterisk beside her name assures that any reference to "Riefenstahl" comes with a "tsk-tsk" caveat. With that in mind, a warning: Triumph of the Will, her notorious documentary on the 1934 Nazi Party Convention, is the most impressive (and insane) propaganda film ever commissioned. Part pre-WWII Nuremberg travelogue (in which the city's Gothic architecture and waterways break up the Nazi marches) and part ode to der Führer, Riefenstahl's "verité" document continues to fascinate and disturb.

– Jason Jude Chan

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