Leni on film

My penultimate note on Leni Riefenstahl (there may be one more because I have Olympia, her documentary on the Berlin Olympics of 1936 coming from Netflix): I watched the 3-hour documentary "The Wonderful, Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl" over the weekend. It makes a great companion to the Steven Bach book for a couple different reasons. Naturally, it's valuable because she went on camera, at age 90, to address some of the controversies which have been attached to her, though as Bach noted, much of what she claims contradicts the other evidence out there; even more interesting to me was that the documentary contains footage from most of the films Bach covers, from her early mountain films, to the closest thing she got to a Hollywood studio film ("SOS Iceberg"), to the infamous "Triumph of the Will," to the shorter propaganda film she made of a Nuremberg Nazi rally the year before "Triumph" (and which Hitler had suppressed later because it prominently featured Ernst Rohm, whom Hitler had assassinated on the Night of the Long Knives). It also has some of the footage she took of the Nuba, an African tribe she lived with briefly in the 1960's, and some of the underwater film she shot while scuba diving in her 80's and 90's. A very interesting film, and the combo of the film and the Bach book should just about cover everything I need to know about Riefenstahl.