Claude Lanzmann
French documentary filmmaker (1925–2018)
3.88body-of-work score · ranked #285 of 2631 directors · 3 films in our library
A director's score is the sum of their films' composite canon scores — methodology.
- Born
- November 27, 1925 · Bois-Colombes
- Died
- July 5, 2018 · 12th arrondissement of Paris
- Nationality
- France
- Work
- journalist, writer, film director, screenwriter
Films in our library, ranked
Ranked by composite canon score across 20+ authoritative lists, awards and polls — our ordering, with every placement citing its evidence on the film's page.
- 1
1985 · France · documentary
Sight & Sound 2022 critics' poll #27 · Hoberman's annual top 10 1985 #1 · Hoberman's annual top 10 1989 #1
3.1811 citations - 2Sobibor, October 14, 1943, 4 p.m.Sobibor, 14 octobre 1943, 16 heures
2001 · France · documentary
Cahiers du Cinéma annual top 10 2001 #8 · Hoberman's annual top 10 2001 #6
0.492 citations - 30.211 citation
Complete filmography
All 12 directorial credits recorded on Wikidata, in chronological order; films in our library link to their canon-score page.
- 1973Pourquoi Israël
- 1985Shoah
- 1985Shoah: First Era
- 1985Shoah: Second Era
- 1994Tsahal
- 1997A Visitor from the Living
- 2001Sobibor, October 14, 1943, 4 p.m.
- 2008Lights and Shadows
- 2010The Karski Report
- 2013The Last of the Unjust
- 2017Napalm
- 2018Shoah: Four Sisters