Shoah (1985)
ThumbScore
👍 89%audience score Estimated from TMDB user ratings and critic scores, calibrated to Google's former audience score. Google stopped publishing it in 2026.
Critics Score
🎬 100%
(RT: 100%, MC: 99) RT = Rotten Tomatoes (critic reviews). MC = Metacritic (weighted critic average). Critics Score is the average of both.
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Cast
Claude Lanzmann as Self - Interviewer
Simon Srebnik as Self
Michael Podchlebnik as Self
Motke Zaidl as Self
Jan Karski as Self
Paula Biren as Self
Abraham Bomba as Self
Inge Deutschkron as Self
Is Shoah good?
Yes. 89% audience score, estimated from 228 TMDB ratings. Critics gave it 100%.
Overview
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. Wikipedia ↗
