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Based on a true story, Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List stars Liam Neeson as Oskar Schindler, a German businessman in Poland who sees an opportunity to make money from the Nazis' rise to power. He ... read more read more...starts a company to make cookware and utensils, using flattery and bribes to win military contracts, and brings in accountant and financier Itzhak Stern (Ben Kingsley) to help run the factory. By staffing his plant with Jews who've been herded into Krakow's ghetto by Nazi troops, Schindler has a dependable unpaid labor force. For Stern, a job in a war-related plant could mean survival for himself and the other Jews working for Schindler. However, in 1942, all of Krakow's Jews are assigned to the Plaszow Forced Labor Camp, overseen by Commandant Amon Goeth (Ralph Fiennes), an embittered alcoholic who occasionally shoots prisoners from his balcony. Schindler arranges to continue using Polish Jews in his plant, but, as he sees what is happening to his employees, he begins to develop a conscience. He realizes that his factory (now refitted to manufacture ammunition) is the only thing preventing his staff from being shipped to the death camps. Soon Schindler demands more workers and starts bribing Nazi leaders to keep Jews on his employee lists and out of the camps. By the time Germany falls to the allies, Schindler has lost his entire fortune -- and saved 1,100 people from likely death. Schindler's List was nominated for 12 Academy Awards and won seven, including Best Picture and a long-coveted Best Director for Spielberg, and it quickly gained praise as one of the finest American movies about the Holocaust. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi

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Directed by: Steven Spielberg

Release Date: December 15, 1993

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  • jmanard52
    June 29, 2008
    jmanard52
    Spielbergs masterpiece. An amazing cast makes this one of the all time best movies.
  • MrsInsomnia
    April 28, 2012
    MrsInsomnia
    A masterpiece
  • spielberg00
    November 19, 2011
    spielberg00
    Steven Spielberg's historical and biographical motion picture adaptation of Thomas Keneally's Booker Prize-winning novel Schindler's Ark is not moving, but rather changing the ways we view the Holocaust.

    Aside from the first scene, the final scene, and the strong emphas... read moreis on a girl in a red coat in one scene, all 3 hours and 16 minutes of SCHINDLER'S LIST are filmed at an Oscar-winning standard in pure black and white. Though black and white usually comes across to me as a beautiful and heavenly, the coloring is truly meant to emphasize the misery and agony of the Holocaust. And that's how the black and white aspect impacts throughout the entire film.

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  • DreamExtractor
    September 14, 2011
    DreamExtractor
    Shindler's List is not only the greatest holocaust film ever made, its by far one of the greatest film in the history of cinema, and my 9th favorite film ever made. It stars Liam Neeson as Oskar Schindler, a German businessman in Poland who sees an opportunity to make money from... read more the Nazis' rise to power. He starts a company to make cookware and utensils, using flattery and bribes to win military contracts, and brings in accountant and financier Itzhak Stern (Ben Kingsley) to help run the factory. By staffing his plant with Jews who've been herded into Krakow's ghetto by Nazi troops, Schindler has a dependable unpaid labor force. For Stern, a job in a war-related plant could mean survival for himself and the other Jews working for Schindler. However, in 1942, all of Krakow's Jews are assigned to the Plaszow Forced Labor Camp, overseen by Commandant Amon Goeth (Ralph Fiennes), an embittered alcoholic who occasionally shoots prisoners from his balcony. Schindler arranges to continue using Polish Jews in his plant, but, as he sees what is happening to his employees, he begins to develop a conscience. He realizes that his factory (now refitted to manufacture ammunition) is the only thing preventing his staff from being shipped to the death camps. Soon Schindler demands more workers and starts bribing Nazi leaders to keep Jews on his employee lists and out of the camps. By the time Germany falls to the allies, Schindler has lost his entire fortune and saved 1,100 people from likely death. This plot is too incredible to describe, but if I were going to try, I would tell everyone thats its the story of two men, one a hero, and another a monster, and its about the hero who tricked the monster so he could save hundreds of Jews from being killed by the Nazi army, and how this one man became one of the greatest people in the history of the world, and this movie spared no expense to show us that. Liam Neeson and Ralph Fiennes play two of some of the greatest roles and history, the hero and villain, the man who saved and the man who killed, and they both play their part perfectly. Steven Spielberg has filmed three of some of my favorite films of all time, The Terminal, Saving Private Ryan, and this movie, and if I had to choose the best, there is no doubt in my mind this is on top. The horrors in this film will never be able to leave your head, no matter how much you try, my god what a phenomenal film.
  • fb729949618
    July 31, 2011
    fb729949618
    Masterpiece to say the least. One of the best movies of ALL TIME. Spielberg sir....you are a genius.
  • moonrivers
    July 26, 2011
    moonrivers
    Spielberg's magnum opus and, by my poor reckoning, the work for which he'll longest be remembered for (at least to date) and one of the best ever made. The incomprehensible despair, inhumanity and savagery of presumed righteousness versus the frailty of human hope vividly render... read moreed. Unforgettable.
  • fb100001048934982
    July 21, 2011
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    Steven Spielberg's 'Schindler's List' is one of those films where you can say it's more of a piece of art than an actual movie. The film is practically perfect in every way except for its run-time, which makes watching the movie almost grueling. The acting is brilliant, with Nees... read moreon showing a formidable presence as the enigmatic lead, but an underrated Ralph Fiennes steals the show in each one of scenes. He is perhaps the most perfectly portrayed Nazi in cinema. The cinematography is excellent, and the choice of using black-and-white is almost ingenious. Speilberg only alienates viewers from his masterpiece by compromising the pace in exchange for a more absolute storytelling experience. It may be Spielberg's masterpiece, but the truth is, it isn't quite as entertaining or enthralling as 'Saving Private Ryan'.
  • fb1710827246
    July 9, 2011
    fb1710827246
    Whoever saves one life, saves the world entirely. Very powerful movie that will surely move you. Accurate in its portrayal of horror, violence, fear and impending death, you will surely wonder about humanity. And at the end, where it counts: redemptive from acts of selfless givin... read moreg; it will truly inspire any. It is an experience. After a few weeks, you will remember the scenes in Schindler's List as though they were your own. And even after a few months more, the profound feeling lingers. I certainly feel it will for the rest of my life.
  • murphmann93
    June 23, 2011
    murphmann93
    Exceptional and heart wrenching. They're are no words to describe how poignant this film is. Liam Neeson is absolutely fantastic, one of his outstanding roles as an actor!
  • FiLmCrAzY
    June 22, 2011
    FiLmCrAzY
    Well its the first time i've ever watched this movie and it was worth the wait!
    My review based on the fact that its a true story, then the movie is very sad and an emotional story that is depicted brilliantly through Spielburgs fanastic direction and through Neesons and Fiennes... read more fantastic performances, also everyone that acted in this movie were brilliant!
    This movie displays a very moving, inspirational and touching story of the horrors the jews had to go through during the war and shows the wondering and truly amazing individuals quest to trying to save as many jews as possible. You watch this movie and you won't control yourself enough to not start crying.

    Spielburg did a fantastic job of this movie and so thoroughly deserving of the 10 nominations and 7 awards that this movie recieved!
    I loved the way it was in black and white and that near the beginning of the movie your introduced; or spielburg draws your attention to one little girl in particular who is wearing a red coat the only colour within the movie, i guess its a way of making you ore aware of that little girl so that through the movie your wondering what happended to her which you do find out!
    A truly lovely movie.
    Fiennes does a brilliant performance as psychotic german who will shoot anyone that he pleases and he is also quite amusing in this movie as well.
    I dont know whether he is ment to actually be funny in this emotional movie but that is the way i understood it as.

    Avery lovely and brilliant all round movie that shouldnt be missed! A classic movie that will just blow you away.!

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Critic Reviews

Owen Gleiberman
November 6, 2009
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly

Schindler's List is a film whose meanings are to be found less in its uplifting outline than in its harrowing flow of images -- images of fear, hope, horror, compassion, degradation, chaos, and death. Full Review

Todd McCarthy
February 19, 2008
Todd McCarthy, Variety

This is the film to win over Spielberg skeptics. Full Review

Jonathan Rosenbaum
February 5, 2007
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader

Spielberg does an uncommonly good job both of holding our interest over 185 minutes and of showing more of the nuts and bolts of the Holocaust than we usually get from fiction films. Full Review

Janet Maslin
May 20, 2003
Janet Maslin, New York Times

Rising brilliantly to the challenge of this material and displaying an electrifying creative intelligence, Mr. Spielberg has made sure that neither he nor the Holocaust will ever be thought of in the ... Full Review

Desson Thomson
January 15, 2002
Desson Thomson, Washington Post

For a movie -- or more accurately, a Hollywood-approved art movie -- this often-stunning work puts the Holocaust into bracing perspective. Full Review

Peter Travers
May 12, 2001
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone

Schindler's List, despite blatant compromises, is a rending historical document.

Roger Ebert
January 1, 2000
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

What is most amazing about this film is how completely Spielberg serves his story. The movie is brilliantly acted, written, directed and seen. Full Review

John Hartl
January 1, 2000
John Hartl, Film.com

In a severe, uncompromising manner that none of his previous films has approached, Spielberg has captured the terror of the Nazi reign as well as the determination and resourcefulness of those who res...

James Berardinelli
January 1, 2000
James Berardinelli, ReelViews

Because this film touches us so deeply, the catharsis has a power that few -- if any -- other moments in film history can match. Full Review

Rita Kempley
January 1, 2000
Rita Kempley, Washington Post

Schindler's List is a ruthlessly unsentimental portrait of a German war profiteer's epiphany that inspires neither sorrow nor pity, but a kind of emotional numbness. Full Review

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    • Amon Goeth: You commited this crime?
    • OD/Chicken Boy: *sniff* N-No.
    • Amon Goeth: But you know who did it?
    • OD/Chicken Boy: Yes. [points to man Goeth just shot]
    • Oskar Schindler: A man steals something, he's brought in before the Emperor, he throws himself down on the ground. He begs for his life, he knows he's going to die. And the Emperor pardons him. This worthless man, he lets him go.
    • Oskar Schindler: I could have got more.
    • Itzhak Stern: The list is an absolute good...The list is life.
    • Amon Goeth: So who stole the chicken? A man walks around with a chicken and nobody notices this?
    • Oskar Schindler: Hey, hey, what are you doing?! These are my workers; they should be on my train!
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