Shoah

Director Claude Lanzmann's epic Holocaust documentary eschews previously seen film footage for interviews with death camp survivors, workers, and former Nazi officials, all witnesses to the horror, contrasted with glimpses of the surviving camps today. Focusing on the Chelmno, Treblinka, and Auschwitz extermination camps, as well as the Warsaw ghetto, the gut-wrenching documentary ("Shoah" meaning "the catastrophe" in Hebrew) is a remarkable look at the unthinkable and unforgettable. 9 1/4 hrs. On four discs. Standard; Soundtrack: English, French, German, Italian, Hebrew, Polish, and Yiddish Uncompressed PCM mono; Subtitles: English (SDH); documentary; interviews; bonus films "A Visitor from the Living" (1999), "Sobibor, October 14, 1943, 4 pm" (2001), "The Karski Report" (2010); theatrical trailer. #essay.