[IronJack]

Say what you want, Triumph of the Will is one of the most powerful uses of the film medium in existence. Riefenstahl used her incredible talents in the service of evil, of that there is little doubt. But there is equally little doubt of her talent.

[Dirk McQuickly]

Frank Capra once related how he watched Triumph of the Will when embarking on his "Why We Fight" series, and that it scared the bejeezers out of him because it made the Nazis look invincible. All one has to do is watch all of Hitler's adoring citizenry to understand the grip that fascism had on the psyche of that nation -- a huge lesson in why America needs to be wary of the Clintons and their ilk. Evil leadership is poison.

[sonsofliberty2000]

I have no doubt of her prowess of fim making talent. I only hate the way she used it. Some left Nazi Germany and used their talent elsewhere, ie Einstein, Ernest Chain (who worked with Fleming on Penicillin), Max Perutz (Nobel Prize winner for work on haemoglobin) Edward Teller(managed Los Alamos research on the hydrogen bomb), and Hans Bethe(Nobel Prize for discovery of the reactions which supply the energy in the stars) to name a few.

[veronica]

Riefenstahl used her incredible talents in the service of evil, of that there is little doubt.

Exactly right. And her "talent" will forever be tarnished by the fact that she served to promote the agenda of one of the monsters of men, hence she has the blood of thousands and thousands on her hands. I am sure she's boiling in Hell, as we speak. :)

[justshutupandtakeit]

Not only that but anyone who saw Triumph of the Will should have immediately known a huge war was coming. But the idiots just stuck their heads back into the sand and pretended nothing had changed.