Schindler's List

R

Released Dec 15, 1993

3 hr. 15 min.

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Businessman Oskar Schindler (Liam Neeson) arrives in Krakow 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 Krakow 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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Liva S

Very good movie, would recommend

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

04/22/24

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Audience Member

To simply put, the film will leave you very proud for watching it and praises you, even with its bothering tragedies; it thanks you for being a witness of a truthful cautionary tale. With Spielberg's impossible direction between making two films released at the same year, he made two of the best films of that very same year and all time, along with regards to Neeson, Fiennes, and Kingsley for their masterful manipulation of their emotions to move us audiences.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

04/21/24

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Kshitij S

The most TRAUMATIC film ever watched.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

04/16/24

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Mate P

Schindler's List is one of the best movies of all time. It achieved something many films cannot. It's more than 3 hours long, but it keeps the viewer's attention. In the beginning it starts off as an interesting story with interesting characters. By the middle, the film starts to get brutal and heavy. While in the end it becomes incredibly emotional. The movie is shot beautifully, the fact that it was shot black and white is perfect, because it captures the feel of the 40s. The acting performances are outstanding from Ralph Fiennes, Liam Neeson and Ben Kingsley. While watching this film I wasn't thinking how great the acting was, because who I saw were characters, they felt like characters and not actors. It's no question that this is one of the o best films of all time.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

04/05/24

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Gero C

One of Steven Spielberg's best films. I cried inside with this movie. Highly recommended.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

03/17/24

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Domenick

One kind of expects the movie to be better, given its status as Spielberg's opus and the subject matter, but its kind of unfocused and overlong. If you want a marathon mediation on the Holocaust, watch Shoah instead (a devastating, unforgetable, look at similar events that comes across as more searing and immediate). If you want better Spielberg, there are multiple options.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

03/13/24

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Steven Spielberg

Director

Liam Neeson

Oskar Schindler

Ben Kingsley

Itzhak Stern

Ralph Fiennes

Amon Goeth

Caroline Goodall

Emilie Schindler

Jonathan Segal

Poldek Pfefferberg

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Schindler's List: Official Clip - That's Oskar Schindler

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Schindler's List: Official Clip - He Who Saves One Life Saves the World Entire

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Schindler's List: Official Clip - A Small Pile of Hinges

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Schindler's List: Official Clip - The List is Life

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Schindler's List: Official Clip - Bach or Mozart?

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Schindler's List: Official Clip - The Schindler Jews Today

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Schindler's List: Official Clip - Commandant Amon Goeth

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Schindler's List: Official Clip - The Girl in Red

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Schindler's List: Official Clip - Helen Hirsch

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Wendy Ide

Times (UK)

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.

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Eleanor Ringel Cater

Atlanta Journal-Constitution

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.

Apr 15, 2021

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Susan Stark

Detroit Free Press

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.

Rated: 4/4

Apr 15, 2021

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Grant Watson

Fiction Machine

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.

Rated: 10/10

Feb 7, 2024

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Stephen Silver

The SS Ben Hecht

A great film, a powerful film, and even if it’s not the definitive American Holocaust film, it remains on the very short list of the most important ones. (30th anniversary)

Rated: 5/5

Dec 19, 2023

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Anushka Halve

Film Companion

This isn't your high-octane thriller; rather, acts of heroism unfold with a deliberate, strategic cadence.

Dec 12, 2023

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Synopsis

Businessman Oskar Schindler (Liam Neeson) arrives in Krakow 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 Krakow 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
Executive Producer: Kathleen Kennedy
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
Sound Mix: Dolby Atmos , Stereo , Dolby Digital , DTS , Surround

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