Time Out and The Guardian listed Shoah as the best documentary of all time in 2016 and 2013 respectively. In a 2014 British Film Institute (BFI) Sight and Sound poll, film critics voted it second of the best documentary films of all time. In 2012 it ranked 29th and 48th respectively in the BFI's critics' and directors' polls of the greatest films of all time. The same polls in 2022 placed it 27th among critics and 72nd among directors.
Time Out and The Guardian listed Shoah as the best documentary of all time in 2016 and 2013 respectively. In a 2014 British Film Institute (BFI) Sight and Sound poll, film critics voted it second of the best documentary films of all time In 2012 it ranked 29th and 48th respectively in the BFI's critics' and directors' polls of the greatest films of all time The same polls in 2022 placed it 27th among critics and 72nd among directors