Attention, Documentary Filmmakers: 6 Lessons from the Making of 'Shoah.'

Claude Lanzmann's "Shoah," which celebrates its 30th anniversary this year, is widely considered to be the most important Holocaust film ever made, and regularly ranks among the greatest documentaries of all time.  The nine-and-a-half-hour-long epic took the maverick French filmmaker 12 years to make, beginning in 1973 and ending in 1985. During that time, Lanzmann and his crew amassed more than 225 hours of footage – some of it secretly obtained at great risk. The film was groundbreaking on its release, eschewing traditional archival footage and instead relying almost entirely on first-person testimony to paint a horrific portrait of mass murder in the Nazi death...

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