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 starts a company to make cookware and utensils, using flattery and bribes to win military contracts, and brings in accountant and .. Read more
| Starring | Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes, Caroline Goodall, Embeth Davidtz |
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| Director | Steven Spielberg |
| Genres | Drama |
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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 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, All Movie Guide
| Starring | Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes, Caroline Goodall, Embeth Davidtz, Ben Kingsley |
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| Director | Steven Spielberg |
| Run time | DVD: 3 hrs 7 mins |
| Certificate |  |
| Collections | 100 must-see movies, American Film Institute's top 100, Best Picture Oscar Winners, Booker Prize Adaptations, Top 400 All-Time Rentals |
| Genres | Drama |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Hearing-impaired | English |
| Released | Production year: 1993 To Rent: DVD: not available To Buy: DVD: 12 Apr 2004 |
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Undoubted Masterpiece.
Saving Private Ryan and E.T were probably the best films of their genre, but you can't measure the impact of this film against those, and to attempt to ... read more »
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Girl in the red coat?
Not as harrowing as I remembered it or as some holocaust films but very meaningful.
When I think of that film I always remember there was a little ... read more »
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Don't you dare rate this film without having watched it!!
This film was with out a doubt the best i have ever watched, it covers and awful time in the history of the world, it pulls no punches and was incredibly moving... read more »
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Powerful and Shocking
Now I have seen a lot of films, one's which are suppose to brutal and shocking like you've never seen before examples in question include The Texas ... read more »
Liam Neeson struggled to remember his lines while filming survival thriller The Grey - because the freezing Canadian weather often caused him to suffer from "brain freeze". The Schindler's List star confesses the icy temperatures and extreme weather conditions made the shoot far more complicated and put everyone, including director Joe Carnahan, on edge. He tells the New York Post, "The elements in general were pretty tough. There were a couple days that I got brain freeze. The function... Read more
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