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Shoah

Name: Shoah
Released: 1985

1985

Over nine and a half hours built entirely from present-day interviews and no archival footage, Claude Lanzmann's monumental documentary gathers the testimony of survivors, bystanders, and perpetrators of the Holocaust. An overwhelming, essential work.

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A Holocaust documentary centered heavily on occupied Poland, extermination sites, and testimony.

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