What is Shoah's IQ Score?

Shoah has an IQ Score of 190/200 on TV Intelligentsia's Intelligence Quotient framework, placing it in the Masterclass tier. The score breaks down to 46/50 Cognitive Stimulation, 50/50 Educational Value, and 46/50 Craft & Quality.

Is Shoah educational?

Shoah is strong on educational value, 50/50 on TVI's rubric, which covers academic content, emotional intelligence, critical thinking, life skills, and knowledge transfer.

How does TV Intelligentsia calculate IQ Score?

TV Intelligentsia's current published formula is round((Cognitive Stimulation × 0.4 + Educational Value × 0.35 + Craft & Quality × 0.25) × 4), scoring titles from 0 to 200 across five tiers. TVI publishes a three-dimension breakdown only when those values reproduce the displayed composite. The framework is published at tvintelligentsia.com/methodology/.

Shoah , IQ Score 190/200

Shoah has an IQ Score of 190/200 on TV Intelligentsia's Intelligence Quotient rubric, placing it in the Masterclass tier.

By Jordan Robinson, MD, MPH·Updated 2026-07-24·Methodology

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190/ 200

Masterclass TVI Essential

Measurably increases domain knowledge or cognitive capacity

Shoah poster, IQ Score 190/200, Masterclass tier on TV Intelligentsia

Score Breakdown

Cognitive Stimulation/50

Educational Value/50

Craft & Quality/50

IQ = round((Cognitive × 0.4 + Educational × 0.35 + Craft × 0.25) × 4) · How we score →

What these dimensions mean

Cognitive Stimulation: how much the title demands of your mind, its structural complexity, ideas, and sustained intellectual engagement.
Educational Value: what you take away, across academic content, emotional intelligence, critical thinking, life skills, and knowledge transfer.
Craft & Quality: production excellence in service of the work, its direction, writing, performance, and aesthetic intent.

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Why you should trust this score

Scored under Jordan Robinson, MD, MPH

Physician and founding editor. Maintains the adult catalog against the published rubric and reviews the rubric application.

Methodology

Published rubric, v1.3

Formula

round(C × 0.40 + E × 0.35 + Q × 0.25) × 4

Database scale

2,587 titles, version-controlled

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TVI Essential · Consensus

Shoah scores 190/200 on the TVI IQ Score, Masterclass tier. Claude Lanzmann's 9.5-hour documentary about the Holocaust, no archival footage, only contemporary interviews with survivors, perpetrators, and bystanders, earning Cultural Impact, Intellectual Substance, and Lasting Significance. TVI Essential is an editorial designation; IQ Score is a content rating, not an intelligence measurement.

The TVI Take

Claude Lanzmann's 9.5-hour documentary about the Holocaust, no archival footage, only contemporary interviews with survivors, perpetrators, and bystanders. Exceptional educational value, the oral testimony structure preserves human memory in a way no other film achieves.

One of the most important documents in cinema history.

People & Production Claude Lanzmann · France 14 connections