Claude Lanzmann Movies

At the occasion of the sixtieth anniversary of Israel, Claude Lanzmann made an interview of Ehud Barak, on March 1st, 2008.

A powerful new film about Jan Karski, the Polish resistance figure who attempted to expose the Warsaw Ghetto and Belzec, and met with President Frankl...

A place: Theresienstadt. A unique place of propaganda which Adolf Eichmann called the "model ghetto", designed to mislead the world and Jewish people...

This film tells the life story of Ziva Postec, emphasizing the period when she was editing Shoah from 350 hours of footage.

The ideologies underlying the foundation of modern Israel are explored in this documentary, the third of a trilogy (created over a twenty year span) e...

The process of making Shoah.

A documentary directed by Eric Friedler about Jerry Lewis' never released movie "The Day The Clown Cried".

Marcel Ophuls' riveting film details the heinous legacy of the Gestapo head dubbed "The Butcher of Lyon." Responsible for over 4,000 deaths in occupie...

After his retirement, french philosopher and bullfighting enthusiast Francis Wolff decides to embark on a journey to France, Spain and Mexico joined b...

Since 1999, Claude Lanzmann has made several films that could be considered satellites of Shoah, comprised of interviews conducted in the 1970s that d...

A chronicle of the Holocaust, told by the resilient survivors who lived through it.

Documentary interview with Yehuda Lerner, who at 17 participated in a prisoner revolt at the Nazi-run Sobibor extermination camp. Originally filmed fo...

Director Claude Lanzmann spent 11 years on this sprawling documentary about the Holocaust, conducting his own interviews and refusing to use a single...

An interview with a WWII Red Cross official who wrote a glowing report on a Jewish ghetto-cum-death camp.

Using interviews and other footage shot especially for this documentary, French director Claude Lanzmann investigates the state of Israel in 1972. Thi...

Napalm is the story of the breathtaking and brief encounter, in 1958, between a French member of the first Western European delegation officially invi...