The way it was

From the way that we are watching the film, I consider “Triumph of the Will” to be a documentary. If we were German citizens during World War II, then I would label this a propaganda film. However, for the purposes of us watching this film for education, it would be a documentary. While documentaries typically have a narrator, this film is not the typical run of the mill movie so I don’t expect it to meet the unspoken requirements of a documentary. The film glorifies the Nazi movement, tricking the German public that the Nazi’s were actually about spreading good rather than evil. Little tidbits, like Leni Reifenstahl lowering the camera angle below Adolf Hitler’s face and showing how the public goes crazy when Hitler acknowledges them, shows how powerful Hitler’s presence was even though he was not in complete power yet. It's also amazing to think of all the edits that Leni went through, combining live with filmed footage. The music that was chosen really added to how "beneficial and great" that Nazi movement will be, while in reality we all know what truly happened. And While I don’t agree that the movie makes the Nazi movement look “beautiful”, I think it does portray a positive outcome of wealth and prosperity while the people of Germany were very weak and susceptible and just wanted their nation to prosper like they did previously. The potential repercussions of this misguided vision would be what happened in Germany. The public was taken by surprise as to what the Nazi’s were doing and were so scared  to be killed than rebelled and basically let nature take its course. So many innocent people were killed, while it all could have been prevented.