Triumph of The Will

Triumph of the Will (Triumph des Willens) is a filmed record of the 1934 Nazi Party Convention, in Nuremberg. No, it is more than just a record: it is an exultation of Adolf Hitler, who from the moment his plane descends from Valhalla-like clouds is visually characterized as a God on Earth. The "Jewish question" is disposed of with a few fleeting closeups; filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl prefers to concentrate on cheering crowds, precision marching, military bands, and Hitler's climactic speech, all orchestrated, choreographed and illuminated on a scale that makes Griffith and DeMille look like poverty-row directors….

Triumph of the Will (Triumph des Willens) is a filmed record of the 1934 Nazi Party Convention, in Nuremberg. No, it is more than just a record: it is an exultation of Adolf Hitler, who from the moment his plane descends from Valhalla-like clouds is visually characterized as a God on Earth. The "Jewish question" is disposed of with a few fleeting closeups; filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl prefers to concentrate on cheering crowds, precision marching, military bands, and Hitler's climactic speech, all orchestrated, choreographed and illuminated on a scale that makes Griffith and DeMille look like poverty-row directors.

The infamous propaganda film of the 1934 Nazi Party rally in Nuremberg, Germany.

This film, Leni Riefenstahl’s documentary of the 1933 Nazi Party rally was thought lost for almost 70 years. Digitally remastered and enhanced with English subtitles, this little known epic was as ground-breaking as her later Triumph of the Will. Extremely rare, limited pressing.

The tank has been in existence for almost 100 years. They changed the face of warfare but how can science explain their effect? After every major war the tank is written off by its critics as a relic, but with every generation it reinvents itself and is victorious on the battlefield once again. Naked Science gets into the worlds best tank and asks how technology has made these machines triumphant.

This first propaganda film of Leni Riefenstahl recounts the Nazi Party Rally in Nuremberg from 30 August to 3 September 1933 and celebrates the victory of the Nazis in achieving power when Adolf Hitler assumed the role of Chancellor of Germany in February 1933. 'Der Sieg des Glaubens' is pure Nazi propaganda for the Nazi Party, which funded and promoted the film. The film is of great historic interest because it shows Hitler and the SA leader Ernst Röhm on close and intimate terms, before Röhm was shot on the orders of Hitler during the Night of the Long Knives on 1.