Claude Lanzmann

The title of the film refers to the exact place, day, month, year and hour of the most successful uprising ever to be mounted in a Nazi extermination camp. Yehuda Lerner was 16 years old on that afternoon, when he used an axe to split the skull of an SS guard. Before Sobibor, Lerner had managed to escape from eight other concentration camps where he was imprisoned. The film consists of material from Claude Lanzmann's interviews with Lerner in 1979. (Berlinale.de)

Claude Lanzmann directed this 9 1/2 hour documentary of the Holocaust without using a single frame of archive footage... (imdb)

Using interviews and other footage shot especially for this documentary, French director Claude Lanzmann investigates the state of Israel in 1972. (Allmovie)

Documentary about the Israeli army, as officers recall the 1973 war.

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

A place: Theresienstadt. A unique place of propaganda which 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 president of the Theresienstadt Jewish Council, forced to negotiate day after day until the end of the war with Eichmann. Lanzmann's new film reveals a little-known aspect of the Holocaust, and sheds light on the origins of the "Final Solution". (imdb)

A documentary mainly consisting of an interview, originally filmed for Lanzmann's "Shoah", with Jan Karski, a former Polish resistance fighter during World War Two. Karski discusses his mission to Washington in 1943 to brief President Roosevelt on the Polish resistance, the liquidation of the Warsaw ghetto and the Belzec concentration camp.

The story of the brief encounter, in 1958, between a French member of the first Western European delegation invited to North Korea after the devastating Korean war and a nurse working for the Korean Red Cross hospital in Pyongyang. Nurse Kim Kun Sun and the French delegate had only one word in common: "Napalm". Claude Lanzmann returned without the permission to film and each take represents an extraordinary victory over the permanent control of the regime's political police. (Unifrance)

A documentary about four women from different parts of Eastern Europe who found themselves improbably alive at the end of the Second World War.