New on Blu-ray: SHOAH (1985) - Criterion Collection

Shoah 1985 Criterion Collection New On Bluray

Product Description: 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 (of survivors and former Nazis, as well as 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, and it is inarguably one of the most important cinematic works of all time.

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Director: Claude Lanzmann

Starring: Simon Srebnik, Michael Podchlebnik, Motke Zaïdl, Hanna Zaïdl, Jan Piwonski, Itzhak Dugin

Genre: Documentary

Runtime: 568 min

Rating: Not Rated

Language: French

Studio: Criterion

Home Video Release Date: September 15, 2026

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Codec: MPEG-4 AVC
Resolution: 1080p
Aspect Ratio: 1.37:1
Region: Region A/1

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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); and 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
Cover by Sam Smith