This cleareyed documentary looks at how Leni Riefenstahl, the director of the Nazi propaganda film “Triumph of the Will,” tirelessly tried to rewrite history. By Manohla Dargis When you purchase a ...

In December 1944, on the misty road between Poteau and Recht, American and German forces clashed in a chaotic ambush that produced some of the most recognizable footage of the Battle of the Bulge.

Critic Rüdiger Suchsland follows From Caligari to Hitler (2014), his documentary history of German cinema between the world wars, with a sequel on the moviemaking of the Third Reich, as controlled by ...