The installments... have a cumulative power. Their points of confluence - the deaths of family members, improbable escapes, the hardship of life in ghettos and camps - underscore the horror and, at times, the grim absurdity of surviving extermination. Full Review

The approximately 270-minute running time becomes a hushed demand for the viewer to sit with historical cruelty and listen as its victims teach to the future, its effect a cumulative cry of warning for today. Full Review

The accumulation of detail, the sense of the range of outrages seen and experienced, is conveyed by allowing these women to truly sink into their narratives. Full Review

Rating: 8/10 -- Lanzmann's original intent was to step-by-step document the Final Solution, so female survivors were seen only briefly. This is a timely response to Holocaust denial. Full Review

Rating: 4/4 -- By uniting these four interviews in particular, Claude Lanzmann emphasizes the impossibility of moral clarity in the unthinkable circumstances into which Germany's invasion of Eastern Europe threw its Jewish population. Full Review

Rating: 4/4 -- Even without a lot of cuts for time, each story is perfectly paced, and filled with little details that big-picture histories tend to miss. Full Review

A stunning four-part satellite to Claude Lanzmann's masterwork. Full Review