At the other end, there are the likes of Leni Riefenstahl, whose reputation as a filmmaker has rightly been blackened by the Nazi crimes she used her talents to celebrate.
Ms Riefenstahl, whose work included the Nazi propaganda films Triumph of the Will, about the 1934 Nazi Party Nuremberg Rally and Olympia, glorifying the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, has twice been cleared of complicity with the Nazis by war crimes courts following the collapse of the Nazi regime at the end of World War II.