That image of the women's hair will be ingrained in my mind forever. I actually vomited. Night and Fog stands beside Baraka as one of the most powerful documentaries of all-time, one exposing the beauty of our world, and the other, this one, exposing the very heart of darkness, the very core of the deepest abyss imaginable.

Resnais summoned the courage to bring us the blackened, cold piece of cinema that every other filmmaker was afraid to bring us. There's nothing else to say; the film speaks for itself. I'm not even going to tell you that it's a must-see, because I wouldn't blame anyone that decides to pass this beast up... but it is, without question, one of the greatest films ever made.

i can't in good conscience rate the realities of human suffering. this is gonna stick with me for a while

"a concentration camp is built like a stadium or hotel: with contractors, estimates, bids and no doubt a bribe or two. no specific style—that's left to the imagination."

creates an almost surreal horror out of the mundane machinery of genocide.

Unspeakable, deafening horror, not only because of its succession of images, but in the juxtaposition between the visual impact and the musical undercurrent.

i don't know what to say

I have never—never—seen footage like this before. As a Jew who has been alive for 18 years, I thought my perception of The Holocaust was fully developed. I was wrong.

A painful and unflinching look at the horrors of the concentration camps of the Holocaust and how we must never forget them. I’ve never seen a documentary more honest, raw, and depressing in my entire life. The fact that at some point in human history we did this, and we did this to other human beings, is nearly incomprehensible. An absolute must-see.

...and people actually deny this?

knowing that he couldn't possibly represent the horror that reality represented for those in the camps faithfully, resnais still depicts a scarring watch that could never be put in words, such as the events unfolded here.
the calm and foggy empty buildings represent the violence enacted here, with archive footage making sure you remember it.
the night could be neverending, as much as many of us would like to think this was an expection and a relict of old times, resnais makes sure to remember the agents of such horrors are still among us, and their ideas have not died out.

J'ai jamais su comment donner une note à ce genre de film. Je vais y aller avec la plus haute, seulement d'un point de vue anthropologique.
Still a beautiful piece of cinema.

Est-ce un film vraiment nécessaire, aujourd'hui, peut-être que non, mais à l'époque, oui. Les images sont choquantes, comme de faits, et elles devraient l'être. Un film choquant qui ne m'a pas choqué.

Difficult to watch, but easily one of the most essential and relevant shorts of all time.

Something like this feels entirely wrong to rate it like but I still want to remember I watched it. Easily the most horrifying footage I’ve ever seen but it’s one of those things that I believe ever person should have to see at least once. It’s history at its absolute worst.