Leni Reifenstahl was commissioned by Adolf Hitler to film the Nazi Nuremberg Party Rally in 1934. Using 30 cameras and many assistants, the result was Triumph of the Will. She next produced Olympia, a monumental two-part documentary of the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin. The film is constructed chronologically to capture mounting tension of the competitions. 45 cameras were positioned level with the athletes, floated by balloons, or placed in pits dug into the fields, even under water for the diving sequence which she edited to have a visual poetry with its own laws of time and space. Her editorial skills enabled her to whittle 200 hours of footage into a coherent and passionate display of physical prowess and a film of often astounding beauty.