OLYMPIA PART 1: FESTIVAL OF THE NATIONS (Olympia 1. Teil - Fest der Volker) (1938) - ♦♦♦♦♦

Directed by - Leni Riefenstahl

"Still regarded as perhaps the single most important sports documentary ever made, as well as one of the most innovative and trend setting films of the genre in general, in the first part, Leni Riefenstahl chronicles the gathering of the nations of the world in Berlin for the 1936 Olympics around the time of Nazi occupation, that is perfectly organised and looks most disciplined as the host nation. A masterpiece of propaganda cinema that goes beyond the barriers such a definition would imply and can be admired by anyone regardless of their political beliefs."

Documentary, Germany