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Shoah Blu-ray is Claude Lanzmann's monumental and deeply influential documentary masterpiece, widely regarded as one of the most important films ever made. More than a decade in the making, this extraordinary work confronts the Holocaust through firsthand testimony, creating an unforgettable cinematic examination of memory, history and human experience.
Over a decade in the making, Claude Lanzmann's nine-hour-plus opus is a monumental investigation of the unthinkable: the murder of more than six million Jews by the Nazis. Using no archival footage, Lanzmann instead focuses on first-person testimonies from survivors, former Nazis and other witnesses, employing a circular, free-associative method in assembling them.
The intellectual yet emotionally overwhelming Shoah is not a film about excavating the past but an intensive portrait of the ways in which the past is always present. A landmark achievement in documentary filmmaking, it remains one of the most essential cinematic works ever created.
Directed by: Claude Lanzmann
1985 / 566 min / French, Italian, Polish, German, English, Hebrew, Yiddish / 4 Discs
Film Info
• France
• 1985
• 566 minutes
• Color/Black and White
• 1.37:1
• French, Italian, Polish, German, English, Hebrew, Yiddish
• Spine #663
Shoah [Blu-ray] - Pre-Order 9/15
DIRECTOR-APPROVED FOUR-BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
• 2K digital restoration with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
• Three additional films by director Claude Lanzmann:
• A Visitor from the Living (1999, 68 minutes)
• Sobibór, October 14, 1943, 4 p.m. (2001, 102 minutes)
• The Karski Report (2010, 49 minutes)
• Conversation between Lanzmann and critic Serge Toubiana
• Interview with Lanzmann from 2003 about A Visitor from the Living and Sobibór
• Interview with Caroline Champetier, assistant cameraperson on Shoah, and filmmaker Arnaud Desplechin
• All I Had Was Nothingness (2025), a new film by Guillaume Ribot, edited from previously unreleased footage and recounting the production of Shoah
• Trailer
• English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
• PLUS: An essay by critic Kent Jones and writings by Lanzmann