Claude Lanzmann's unmitigated masterpiece. A very rare documentary on the Holocaust that relies on no archival footage. Rather, through interviews with survivors, perpetrators and camp neighbors, Lanzmann takes the famous Hannah Arendt quote about the banality of evil and shows it in all its horror. There is simply no document like this. It is long, it is grave and it is unmissable. You cannot have a complete cinematic take on this horrible era in recent history and not see this landmark film.
Review of Shoah
