A superbly realized remembrance of European Jews who suffered genocidal persecution during World War II.

Rating: 10/10 (4 July 2010)

The Austrian entrepreneur Oskar Schindler (Liam Neeson) starts a factory during the war using Jews as slave labour, witnesses the horrors of the Holocaust and compiles a list of over 1,100 Jews to save from death, bribing an SS commandant.
Schindler's List is not a perfect film but still a masterpiece, an unforgettably moving drama on the theme of conscience, told in a stark, unflinching and consistently brave way. It is the traces of sentimentality that actually make it bearable - we watch the film not to relive the Holocaust, but to bear emotional witness to it. Director Steven Spielberg approached Billy Wilder, Roman Polanski and Martin Scorsese to direct the film, worried that he would not do the story justice.