As a document of the allure of demonic power, it must be seen and shuddered at.

| Nov 23, 2022

I don't know if it is a major work of documentary cinema, but of course, Riefenstahl frames it with a formal virtuosity that manages to captivate me for its compositional care, despite the reprehensible propaganda diatribes. Full review in Spanish

| Original Score: 7/10 | Apr 22, 2022

The movie is the embodiment of an evil and destructive philosophy, but it must remain accessible for both new filmmakers and students of history, especially if it inspires them to contemplate the moral limits of their respective fields.

| Mar 14, 2016

That Triumph of the Will is a great propaganda film, there is no doubt, and various surveys have named it so. But I doubt that anyone not already a Nazi could be swayed by it.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Feb 17, 2016

Making a supreme effort to put aside the socio-ethical considerations this is, in purely cinematic terms, incredible filmmaking.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Feb 17, 2016

Nazis or no, two hours of marching and speechifying is pretty damn dull; maybe this is what they mean by "the banality of evil."

| Feb 17, 2016

Leni Riefenstahl's infamous masterwork sits with The Birth of a Nation in the pantheon's "outcast unclean" section.

| Feb 17, 2016

The result is a film that is simultaneously monotonous and horrifying -- a historically important but artistically bereft fascist "industrial," a movie that, despite its almost constantly tracking camerawork, is stillborn.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Feb 17, 2016

The most famous and infamous propaganda film of all time is revealing for its stern depiction of the way Hitler's Germany sought to present itself to its own countrymen and to the outside world.

| Original Score: A | Sep 19, 2011

One of the most boring films ever made.

Full Review | Original Score: 0/5 | Aug 21, 2009

Technically brilliant, and still one of the most disturbing pieces of propaganda around.

| Jun 24, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Jun 19, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 10, 2005

One of the most frightening films ever made...a repellant reminder of the power that Hitler had over the German people.

| Sep 16, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 2, 2004

Este exemplo clssico do Cinema usado como arma de propaganda poltica extremamente eficiente e bem realizado - o que o torna ainda mais assustador.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 20, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 8, 2004

The grandather of documentaries still shines after all these years.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Feb 6, 2004

As sickening as it might be to watch, it's this alternate point of view that is important in helping us learn from the past.

| Jul 2, 2003

It's a reminder of the past and of the power of the moving image, for sure, but more than anything we look at the Nazis and roll our eyes, content that we're seeing a bygone era of loonies.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 29, 2002