Schindler's List (1993)
Schindler's List is a 1993 drama movie directed by Steven Spielberg, with a running time of 3h 15m. It stars Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley and Ralph Fiennes.
Krakow, 1939. Oskar Schindler, a German businessman and Nazi Party member, arrives to profit from the war and staffs his enamelware factory with Jewish workers because their labor is cheap. As the SS liquidates the ghetto and the camps fill, his ledger becomes something else, a list of names he can keep alive. Steven Spielberg films the Holocaust in stark black and white, drawn from Thomas Keneally's book. Liam Neeson plays Schindler, Ralph Fiennes the camp commandant Amon Goth, Ben Kingsley the accountant Itzhak Stern. A sober account of rescue amid annihilation.
Quick answers
What is Schindler's List about?
Krakow, 1939. Oskar Schindler, a German businessman and Nazi Party member, arrives to profit from the war and staffs his enamelware factory with Jewish workers because their labor is cheap. As the SS liquidates the ghetto and the camps fill, his ledger becomes something else, a list of names he can keep alive. Steven Spielberg films the Holocaust in stark black and white, drawn from Thomas Keneally's book. Liam Neeson plays Schindler, Ralph Fiennes the camp commandant Amon Goth, Ben Kingsley the accountant Itzhak Stern. A sober account of rescue amid annihilation.
When was Schindler's List released?
Schindler's List was released on 15 December 1993.
How long is Schindler's List?
Schindler's List runs 3h 15m.
Who made Schindler's List?
Schindler's List was directed by Steven Spielberg.
Where can I watch Schindler's List?
Schindler's List is available on Netflix, Amazon, AppleTV, Fandango at Home and FlixFling.
Where to watch Schindler's List
Stream: Netflix
Rent: Amazon, AppleTV, Fandango at Home, FlixFling
Buy: Fandango at Home
Cast
- Liam Neeson as Oskar Schindler
- Ben Kingsley as Itzhak Stern
- Ralph Fiennes as Amon Goeth
- Caroline Goodall as Emilie Schindler
- Jonathan Sagall as Poldek Pfefferberg
- Embeth Davidtz as Helen Hirsch
- Małgorzata Gebel as Viktoria Klonowska
- Shmuel Levy as Wilek Chilowicz
- Mark Ivanir as Marcel Goldberg
- Béatrice Macola as Ingrid
- Andrzej Seweryn as Julian Scherner
- Friedrich von Thun as Rolf Czurda
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A few thoughts on Schindler's List
Barefoot Gen tells the war's civilian horror from inside Hiroshima, drawn by a survivor, and shares this film's refusal to look away. In comics, Maus renders one family's Holocaust survival through the same unblinking lens. John Williams's score, with Itzhak Perlman on violin, holds the grief on its own.
Death-camp dramas and graphic novels that refuse to look away
Schindler's List keeps its camera inside the ghetto and the camp instead of cutting away, and these follow the same discipline. The Pianist tracks one musician's survival through the Warsaw ghetto's ruin, Escape from Sobibor, The Grey Zone and Triumph of the Spirit stay inside the machinery of a death camp, and Maus and Barefoot Gen carry that unflinching record into comics, one from a survivor's son, one from Hiroshima.
The bureaucrats who ran the Holocaust and the rescuers who defied them
Oskar Schindler starts as a profiteer inside the Nazi system and ends up working against it from the inside, and these split into both halves of that story. Nuremberg and Conspiracy sit with the men who planned and later answered for the genocide, while Irena's Vow, Resistance and The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler follow women who used forged papers and hidden rooms to pull Jewish lives out of it.
WWII beyond the camps: soldiers, scientists and civilians in the crossfire
Schindler's List sits inside one corner of the Second World War, and these widen the view to the rest of it. Enemy at the Gates follows a Soviet sniper's duel at Stalingrad, Cross of Iron rides with German infantry retreating on the Eastern Front, Fat Man and Little Boy tracks the scientists racing to build the atomic bomb, and Lee follows a war photographer documenting what the fighting left behind.
Historical atrocities dramatized with the same unflinching honesty, beyond WWII
Schindler's List treats a historical horror as fact rather than spectacle, and these hold other conflicts to that same standard. Glory follows a Black Union regiment fighting for dignity the army denied them, Emancipation tracks an escape from slavery, Chhaava and The Legend of Suriyothai dramatize real wars fought for two different kingdoms, and The Kill Team confronts a modern unit's war crimes head-on.