This course deals with cinematic fascism on three levels of signification. First we will see and discuss some famous examples of the silent, classic era of German film that have been retrospectively considered precursors of Nazi ideology: The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Wiene, 1919), Nosteratu (Murnau, 1921), and The Nibelungen--Siegfried's Death (Lang, 1924). The second part of our inquiry into the regime responsible for the Holocaust deals with films commissioned by the Nazis or on the margin's of fascist ideology: Hitler Youth Quex (1933), Triumph of the Will (Riefenstahl, 1934-36), Olympia (Riefenstahl, 1936, excerpts), La Habanera (1937), Jus Süß (Harlan, 1943) and Germany, Awake, an Erwin Leiser documentary on Nazi film. The last third of our enterprise is devoted to the critical treatment of the "Thousand-Year Reich" and its murderous history in works by directors of the New German Cinema: Aguirre (Herzog, 1972), The Tin Drum (Schloendorff/Grass, 1979), a portion of Wings of Desire (Wenders, 1987). Other titles--or exchanges--to be negotiated. Most films will be shown in 16mm.