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Schindler's List

Play trailer Poster for Schindler's List R,  1993,  3h 15m,  History/ Drama Play Trailer Watchlist
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98% Tomatometer 135 Reviews 97% Popcornmeter 250,000+ Ratings
Businessman Oskar Schindler arrives in Kraków in 1939, ready to make his fortune from World War II, which has just started. After joining the Nazi party primarily for political expediency, he staffs his factory with Jewish workers for similarly pragmatic reasons. When the SS begins exterminating Jews in the Kraków ghetto, Schindler arranges to have his workers protected to keep his factory in operation, but soon realizes that in so doing, he is also saving innocent lives.
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Critics Consensus

Schindler's List blends the abject horror of the Holocaust with Steven Spielberg's signature tender humanism to create the director's dramatic masterpiece.

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Wendy Ide The Times (UK) Jan 22, 2024
Spielberg employs all the emotive Hollywood tools at his disposal and the result is a remarkable film with wide appeal and real importance. Neeson is phenomenal, but matched by towering performances from Ben Kingsley and Ralph Fiennes. Go to Full Review
Eleanor Ringel Cater Atlanta Journal-Constitution Apr 15, 2021
Using every ounce of his awe some technical skill, the man who sent T. rex and Indiana Jones racing through our imagination brings us a story of human horror beyond imagination. Go to Full Review
Susan Stark Detroit Free Press Apr 15, 2021
4/4
Once in a very great while, a movie insinuates itself so deeply into your consciousness that it offers not vicarious experience but instead, direct experience. Steven Spielberg's heartfelt, monumental Schindler's List is such a movie. Go to Full Review
Matt Brunson Film Frenzy Dec 26, 2025
4/4
It’s doubtful this will relinquish its lofty status any time soon, not so long as its message of hope existing and even thriving within horrendous circumstances continues to resonate. Go to Full Review
Nadir Samara Screen Rant Oct 31, 2024
8/10
The story of Oskar Schindler is as complicated as it is riveting and Steve Zaillian’s script tells us the story in a way World War II films never had. Go to Full Review
Grant Watson Fiction Machine Feb 7, 2024
10/10
It brought the Holocaust to a mass non-Jewish audience at a time when survivors were dying of old age, and testimony was at risk of being lost. Go to Full Review
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Hermione R Apr 25, 2019 The best movie I have ever seen. Not my favorite, but this movie was not made to be liked, it was made to teach you and to open your eyes. This movie certainly did that. See more
Draco R Apr 19, 2019 The power this movie presents is too much to put into words.
Apr 6, 2019 For my first movie review of this semester I chose Schindler's List as the film I would like to study and analyze to attempt to understand the impact that the Holocaust had on modern Jewish and non-Jewish thinking. The movie is directed by the famous Steven Spielberg and follows the life of Oskar Schindler, played by Liam Neeson, and his quest at saving all the Polish-Jews he can by initially employing them into his factories and then after witnessing the brutal realities of the Holocaust first hand, Schindler vows to save every Jew possible; his character progression from being not caring for the Jewish people to becoming a savior to them in a dark time is one of the most important shifts of character throughout the entire film. This film is set in Germany during World War II in the midst of the Holocaust and even though it is three hours long and gruesome to watch at times with some difficult to swallow scenes that are all in black and white, the movie should be recognized as not just the best Holocaust film ever but one of the best films ever made because of how pivotal Schindler was at saving the lives of thousands of Jews. The Holocaust is known as the Shoah by Jewish people and Schindler's List has an accurate description of what it would be like to be living as a Jew in Germany during World War II and it was gruesome. In modern history there has never been a mass genocide relatable to the Holocaust and this drastic event still has an impact on Jewish people today, specifically the grave of Oskar Schindler is showed in the epilogue of the film and Jewish people who Schindler managed to save are seen tossing rocks onto his gravesite as a show of respect to a man who risked his life for the betterment of his own people. See more
Finn S Apr 3, 2019 Schindler's List is a good movie (its undoubtedly the greatest movie by arguably the most accomplished director of modern film), yet I highly doubt its anyone's "favorite movie". Do your self a favor, set up a block of time when your okay with getting real deep, give yourself a little time after to be emotionally screwed with, this isn't a movie to throw on during Saturday date night. After all, its a movie about a Nazi Pary Member and war profiteer who buys Jewish factory workers as a way to save them from concentration camps. It just might be the heaviest movie you will ever watch. See more
Theodore W Mar 27, 2019 Great movie, I can't believe that a comedy movie could have ever exceeded Joe Dirt, I am happy to say that I was wrong. The nazi's are such evil characters, it would be crazy if they were actually real right? Need a sequel pronto or this score will go down! I want Jack Black to play as adolf hitler in it aswell. See more
Anakin M Mar 26, 2019 Captures the horror of the Holocaust very well. The cinematography is maybe the best I've ever seen, and all the actors are perfect. Spielberg's masterpiece. See more
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Synopsis Businessman Oskar Schindler arrives in Kraków in 1939, ready to make his fortune from World War II, which has just started. After joining the Nazi party primarily for political expediency, he staffs his factory with Jewish workers for similarly pragmatic reasons. When the SS begins exterminating Jews in the Kraków ghetto, Schindler arranges to have his workers protected to keep his factory in operation, but soon realizes that in so doing, he is also saving innocent lives.
Director
Steven Spielberg
Producer
Branko Lustig, Gerald R. Molen
Screenwriter
Steven Zaillian
Distributor
Universal Pictures
Production Co
Universal Pictures, Amblin Entertainment
Rating
R (Language|Actuality Violence|Some Sexuality)
Genre
History, Drama
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Dec 15, 1993, Wide
Rerelease Date (Theaters)
Dec 7, 2018
Release Date (Streaming)
Mar 5, 2013
Box Office (Gross USA)
$96.6M
Runtime
3h 15m
Sound Mix
Surround, Dolby Digital, DTS, Dolby Atmos, Stereo
Aspect Ratio
Flat (1.85:1)
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