Critic Reviews
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Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
Only half an hour long, this is the greatest film ever made about the concentration camps.
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Phil Hall, Film Threat
One of the greatest documentaries ever made.
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Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Still remains timely.
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Widgett Walls, Needcoffee.com
Regardless, this is a film that must be viewed. It's almost a prerequisite to being human to have to come face to face with your own capacity for inhumanity. Only after you recognize it can you deal with it.
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Dan Jardine, Apollo Guide
Provokes contemplative self-inquiry, and moves us beyond our initial and immediate emotionally simplistic knee-jerk horror and disgust.
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James Kendrick, Q Network Film Desk
Of all the films made about the Holocaust, Alain Resnais' Night and Fog (Nuit et brouillard) is quite possibly the most moving and thought-provoking,
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Christopher Null, Filmcritic.com
When it comes to Holocaust documentaries, there is simply no further word than Alain Resnais's Night and Fog.
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, TV Guide's Movie Guide
A landmark documentary that is arguably the foremost film ever made about the Holocaust.
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John A. Nesbit, Old School Reviews
Every time I see another film that references the Holocaust, my mind instantly flashes back to this remarkable documentary
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Featured Audience Ratings
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A film that is hard but necessary to watch. Extremely powerful.
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Easily the most unforgettable and moving documentary you will ever see. The sober narrative contrasted with the grave footage of Nazi atrocities makes for a very moving experience. The camera also glides over the ruins which perfectly augments the narrative's meditation on who is… More
Easily the most unforgettable and moving documentary you will ever see. The sober narrative contrasted with the grave footage of Nazi atrocities makes for a very moving experience. The camera also glides over the ruins which perfectly augments the narrative's meditation on who is culpable for these crimes. The runtime is short, but the impact lasts long after your viewing.
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Powerful, gruesome documentary footage of Nazi concentration camps. A hard but necessary watch, should be required viewing for students the world over.
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It's brilliant, but I can't say I really liked it. Probably the roughest film I've ever seen. Not for the faint of heart.
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Powerful, short, and disturbing. Looking back over half a century later, this is a vivid primary reminder. A reel of images that capture the immensity while it was still too recent to analyze... it was something to be seen and quietly observed, the mouth was too slack-jawed to form a… More
Powerful, short, and disturbing. Looking back over half a century later, this is a vivid primary reminder. A reel of images that capture the immensity while it was still too recent to analyze... it was something to be seen and quietly observed, the mouth was too slack-jawed to form a response. There is no way to analyze a film which simply lays bare the image and nothing more.
This is a film not merely about the concentration camps, not merely about any time or place, but inhumanity wherever and whenever it has occured.
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Really unexceptional Woody Allen movie.
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Short but haunting. Potentially the most important documentary about the Holocaust filmed within that time period. A triumph for Resnais.
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Night and Fog is one of the greatest documentaries of all time and for a reason. Not only is it a honest and horrifying realistic look into the terrors of the Nazi concentration camps and their madness, but also one that doesn't sugarcoat anything. What we see is real and that… More
Night and Fog is one of the greatest documentaries of all time and for a reason. Not only is it a honest and horrifying realistic look into the terrors of the Nazi concentration camps and their madness, but also one that doesn't sugarcoat anything. What we see is real and that makes it the most terrifying and heart wrenching, by the time the short was hitting it's stride around the halfway mark, I was in tears and just angry and feeling hopeless. The images and video depicted is truly as horrific as it is mesmerizing, I found myself pulled into it while at the same time repulsed and sick to my stomach. The Nazi's all denied responsibility in their inhuman crimes and monstrous deeds performed against the over 9,000,000 Jews that died at their hands. It really is hard to feel any pity, when these people were responsible for such cruelty and evil they inflicted on innocent people. Not only does Night and Fog capture this but it causes deep seeded emotion to come out and gives justice to the horrors of those that endured them. Not for the faint of heart, but one that I think everyone should watch and endure at least once.
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Not for the faint of heart. This is probably the best documentary on the nazi concentration camps during WW2. A big influence on Schindler's List.
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