Schindler's List is a 1993 American movie set in World War II, and directed by Steven Spielberg. It is based on Schindler's Ark, a 1982 book by Thomas Keneally. The movie and the book owe their names to the list of over a thousand Jews who worked in the title character's factory.

Plot
It is about businessman Oskar Schindler who saves thousands of Jews from being killed in the Holocaust by putting them to work in a factory.  His list was the list of Jews he wanted to save.

Cast

 Liam Neeson as Oskar Schindler
 Ben Kingsley as Itzhak Stern
 Ralph Fiennes as Amon Göth
 Caroline Goodall as Emilie Schindler
 Jonathan Sagall as Poldek Pfefferberg
 Embeth Davidtz as Helen Hirsch
 Małgorzata Gebel as Wiktoria Klonowska
 Mark Ivanir as Marcel Goldberg
 Beatrice Macola as Ingrid
 Andrzej Seweryn as Julian Scherner
 Friedrich von Thun as Rolf Czurda
 Jerzy Nowak as Investor
 Norbert Weisser as Albert Hujar
 Anna Mucha as Danka Dresner
 Adi Nitzan as Mila Pfefferberg
 Piotr Polk as Leo Rosner
 Rami Heuberger as Joseph Bau
 Ezra Dagan as Rabbi Menasha Lewartow
 Elina Löwensohn as Diana Reiter
 Hans-Jörg Assmann as Julius Madritsch
 Hans-Michael Rehberg as Rudolf Höß
 Daniel Del Ponte as Josef Mengele
 Oliwia Dąbrowska as the Girl in Red

Awards
Schindler's List featured on a number of "best of" lists, including the TIME magazine's Top Hundred as selected by critics Richard Corliss and Richard Schickel, Time Out magazine's 100 Greatest Films Centenary Poll conducted in 1995, and Leonard Maltin's "100 Must See Movies of the Century". The Vatican named Schindler's List among the most important 45 movies ever made. A Channel 4 poll named Schindler's List the ninth greatest movie of all time, and it ranked fourth in their 2005 war movies poll. The movie was named the best of 1993 by critics such as James Berardinelli, Roger Ebert, and Gene Siskel. The movie was designated by the Library of Congress in 2004 and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry. Spielberg won the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Feature Film for his work, and shared the Producers Guild of America Award for Best Theatrical Motion Picture with co-producers Branko Lustig and Gerald R. Molen. Steven Zaillian won the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.

It was nominated for twelve Academy Awards, winning seven, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Original Score, and won numerous other awards, including seven BAFTAs and three Golden Globe Awards. The movie also won numerous other awards and nominations worldwide.

Impact
Among others such as Citizen Kane and Sunset Boulevard, it has been called one of the greatest movies ever. In 1998, the American Film Institute selected it as the ninth most popular of all time in their 100 Years... 100 Movies list.

In February 1997, NBC aired a version without cuts of the movie (in two parts), much to the upset of many viewers. It was the first time a television broadcast had ever received the TV-M rating (soon to be called TV-MA).

References

Other websites 

 
 Filmsite's review of the movie
 Official site 

1982 books
1993 drama movies
1990s biographical movies
1990s war movies
American biographical movies
American drama movies
American war movies
BAFTA Award winning movies
Best Picture Oscar
German-language movies
Golden Globe Award winning movies
Movies based on books
Movies directed by Steven Spielberg
Movies set in the 1930s
Movies set in the 1940s
Kraków
Multilingual movies
United States National Film Registry movies
World War II movies
Universal Pictures movies