Tag: shoah

Shoah (1985) 8.7

Shoah (1985)

Storyline:Claude Lanzmann directed this 9 1/2 hour documentary of the Holocaust without using a single frame of archive footage. He interviews survivors, witnesses, and ex-Nazis (whom he had to film secretly since the...

Because I Was a Painter (2013) 6.5

Because I Was a Painter (2013)

Storyline:User Reviews: Saw this last night at Jewish International Film Festival in Sydney and was appalled by it. There was so little merit in this unfocused and ill-conceived attempt to illustrate the work of a han...

Sobibór, October 14, 1943, 4 p.m. (2001) 7.3

Sobibór, October 14, 1943, 4 p.m. (2001)

Storyline:A gripping account of the prisoners uprising at the Nazi extermination camp of Sobibor in 1943.User Reviews: From the director of "Shoah," Claude Lanzmann, comes a documentary on the only successfu...

Defiance (2008) 7.2

Defiance (2008)

Storyline:On the run and hiding in the deep forests of the then German-occupied Poland and Belorussia (World War II), the four Bielski brothers find the impossible task of foraging for food and weapons for their survi...