Claude Lanzmann

We Shall Not Die Now (2019)

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

A Philosopher in the Arena (2019)

After his retirement, french philosopher and bullfighting enthusiast Francis Wolff decides to embark on a journey to France, Spain and Mexico joined by two mexican filmmakers who hardly know anything about bullfighting, a culture whose days seem to be numb ...

Ziva Postec: The Editor Behind the Film Shoah (2018)

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

Shoah: Four Sisters (2018)

Since 1999, Claude Lanzmann has made several films that could be considered satellites of Shoah, comprised of interviews conducted in the 1970s that didn't make it into the final, monumental work. He has just completed a series of four new films, built aro ...

Napalm (2017)

Napalm is the story of the breathtaking and brief encounter, in 1958, between a French member of the first Western European delegation officially invited to North Korea after the devastating Korean war and a nurse working for the Korean Red Cross hospital, ...

The Clown (2016)

A documentary about Jerry Lewis' never-released movie "The Day the Clown Cried". ...

Claude Lanzmann: Spectres of the Shoah (2015)

The process of making Shoah. ...

The Last of the Unjust (2013)

A place: Theresienstadt. A unique place of propaganda which Adolf Eichmann called the "model ghetto", designed to mislead the world and Jewish people regarding its real nature, to be the last step before the gas chamber. A man: Benjamin Murmelstein, last p ...

The Karski Report (2010)

A powerful new film about Jan Karski, the Polish resistance figure who attempted to expose the Warsaw Ghetto and Belzec, and met with President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter. ...

Lights And Shadows (2008)

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

Sobibor, October 14, 1943, 4 p.m. (2001)

Documentary interview with Yehuda Lerner, who at 17 participated in a prisoner revolt at the Nazi-run Sobibor extermination camp. Originally filmed for inclusion in Lanzmann's 1985 documentary Shoah. ...

A Visitor from the Living (1999)

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

Tsahal (1994)

The ideologies underlying the foundation of modern Israel are explored in this documentary, the third of a trilogy (created over a twenty year span) exploring the Jewish experience. The two earlier documentaries, "Porquoi Israel," and "Shoah," have had gre ...

Hôtel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie (1988)

Marcel Ophuls' riveting film details the heinous legacy of the Gestapo head dubbed "The Butcher of Lyon." Responsible for over 4,000 deaths in occupied France during World War II, Barbie would escape—with U.S. help—to South America in 1951, where he li ...

Shoah (1985)

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, a ...

Israel, Why (1973)

Using interviews and other footage shot especially for this documentary, French director Claude Lanzmann investigates the state of Israel in 1972. This movie concentrates on Israelis going about their business of everyday living. ...

Delphine Seyrig (1970)

Shoah: Four Sisters (2018)

Since 1999, Claude Lanzmann has made several films that could be considered satellites of Shoah, comprised of interviews conducted in the 1970s that didn't make it into the final, monumental work. He has just completed a series of four new films, built aro ...

Napalm (2017)

Napalm is the story of the breathtaking and brief encounter, in 1958, between a French member of the first Western European delegation officially invited to North Korea after the devastating Korean war and a nurse working for the Korean Red Cross hospital, ...

The Last of the Unjust (2013)

A place: Theresienstadt. A unique place of propaganda which Adolf Eichmann called the "model ghetto", designed to mislead the world and Jewish people regarding its real nature, to be the last step before the gas chamber. A man: Benjamin Murmelstein, last p ...

The Karski Report (2010)

A powerful new film about Jan Karski, the Polish resistance figure who attempted to expose the Warsaw Ghetto and Belzec, and met with President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter. ...

Lights And Shadows (2008)

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

Sobibor, October 14, 1943, 4 p.m. (2001)

Documentary interview with Yehuda Lerner, who at 17 participated in a prisoner revolt at the Nazi-run Sobibor extermination camp. Originally filmed for inclusion in Lanzmann's 1985 documentary Shoah. ...

A Visitor from the Living (1999)

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

Tsahal (1994)

The ideologies underlying the foundation of modern Israel are explored in this documentary, the third of a trilogy (created over a twenty year span) exploring the Jewish experience. The two earlier documentaries, "Porquoi Israel," and "Shoah," have had gre ...

Shoah (1985)

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, a ...

Israel, Why (1973)

Using interviews and other footage shot especially for this documentary, French director Claude Lanzmann investigates the state of Israel in 1972. This movie concentrates on Israelis going about their business of everyday living. ...

Elise, or Real Life (1970)

In the middle of the Algerian war, Elise, from Bordeaux, "goes" to Paris to join her brother to earn her living in an automobile factory. There she meets Arezki, an Algerian nationalist activist with whom she falls in love. A chronicle of working life at t ...