Shoah
Director Claude Lanzmann spent 11 years on this sprawling documentary about the Holocaust, conducting his own interviews and refusing to use a single frame of archival footage. Dividing Holocaust witnesses into three categories – survivors, bystanders, and perpetrators – Lanzmann presents testimonies from survivors of the Chelmno concentration camp, an Auschwitz escapee, and witnesses of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, as well as a chilling report of gas chambers from an SS officer at Treblinka.
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- —
- Box office
- $20.2K
- Language
- Yiddish
- holocaust (shoah)
- world war ii
- history of mankind
- history and legacy
- historical documentary
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Produced in
France
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- PremiereNew York City's Cinema Studio23 Oct 1985
- TheatricalNR1 Nov 1985
- TVPart 1 - PBS27 Apr 1987
- TVPart 2 - PBS 28 Apr 1987
- TVPart 3 - PBS 29 Apr 1987
- TVPart 4 - PBS 30 Apr 1987
United KingdomGB
- TVBBC Four- Part 125 Jan 2015
- TVBBC Four- Part 21 Feb 2015
FranceFR
- Theatrical (limited)UParis21 Apr 1985
- TVPart 1 - TF130 Jun 1987
- TVPart 2 - TF11 Jul 1987
- TVPart 3 - TF1 2 Jul 1987
- TVPart 4 - TF1 3 Jul 1987
GermanyDE
- TV03 Jul 1987
IsraelIL
- PremiereJerusalem Cinematheque1 Jun 1986
ItalyIT
- PremiereVenice Film Festival28 Aug 1985
- TV1 Jul 1987
NetherlandsNL
- Physical12DVD7 Oct 2016
- TV12NPO 229 Apr 2019
South KoreaKR
- Digital / OTT12Collectio14 Nov 2025
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Shoah was released on 21 April 1985.
Audience reviews
2- A10/10
Andres Gomez
4/14/2016
This is one of this movie that cannot leave anyone unmoved. I honestly can say that I didn't get to comprehend the extension and meaning of the Holocaust until I watched this 9h documentary. Probably, I still don't even get to be close to its understanding now but this has been clear to me after watching the movie. This is the kind of historic document with incalculable value to leave proof of what happened dur…
- C7/10
CinemaSerf
4/4/2022
Told by way of a sort of travelogue of sites of holocaust atrocity, and augmented most potently by survivors, their families and by former Nazis themselves, this documentary reveals in very considerable - and considered - detail the true horrors of the concentration camps. Claude Lanzmann doesn't use any actuality - and, oddly enough, that makes the actuality of the now peaceful sites all the more poignant when descr…
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