The French documentarian and writer Claude Lanzmann, whose 1985 magnum opus Shoah stands as the medium’s definitive meditation on the Holocaust, has died. One of the greatest documentaries ever made, ...

It is not given to most filmmakers to change the world, but French filmmaker Claude Lanzmann, who died Thursday at age 92, did it not once but twice. And with the same film. That would be 1985’s ...

FILE - In this Feb.14, 2013 file photo, French film director Claude Lanzmann holds the Honorary Golden Bear at the 63rd edition of the Berlinale, International Film Festival in Berlin, Germany.

For many in the film world and beyond, Claude Lanzmann's 566-minute documentary Shoah, first released in 1985, remains a milestone that has yet to be surpassed. Even Lanzmann himself, who went on to ...

A quarter-century after it transformed how the world regarded the Holocaust, the Claude Lanzmann documentary Shoah has been rereleased in the United States - an event that the 85-year-old director ...

Claude Lanzmann, born 83 years ago in a northern Paris suburb, to parents of Ukrainian-Belarusian Jewish origin, is internationally famed as the director of the 1985 film “Shoah.” This epic film’s ...

PARIS — French director Claude Lanzmann, whose 9½-hour masterpiece “Shoah” bore unflinching witness to the Holocaust through the testimonies of Jewish victims, German executioners and Polish ...

Director Guillaume Ribot revisited outtakes from the nine-hour Holocaust documentary to reveal how it was made and the toll it took on its creator. By Jordan Mintzer For many in the film world and ...

Claude Lanzmann, the French journalist, historian and director best known for his seminal Holocaust documentary “Shoah,” has died. He was 92. A spokesperson for the publishing house Gallimard ...

Claude Lanzmann, the French journalist, historian and director best known for his seminal Holocaust documentary “Shoah,” has died. He was 92. A spokesperson for the publishing house Gallimard ...