Schindler's List

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 to rescue them from destruction by the Nazis .
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 from the Nazi's in Nazi Occupied Poland, where Jews were normally sent to Concentration camps operated by the SS during the Holocaust from 1941 to 1945 .
Actors in the Cast
Liam Neeson as Oskar Schindler
Ben Kingsley as Itzhak Stern
Ralph Fiennes as Amon Goth
Caroline Goodall as Emilie Schindler
Jonathan Sagall as Poldek Pfefferberg
Embeth Davidtz as Helen Hirsch
Malgorzata 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 Lowensohn as Diana Reiter
Hans-Jorg Assmann as Julius Madritsch
Hans-Michael Rehberg as Rudolf Hoss
Daniel Del Ponte as Josef Mengele
Oliwia Dabrowska 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 composed by John Williams
Movies set in the 1940s
Movies set in Poland
Krakow
Multilingual movies
United States National Film Registry movies
Holocaust movies
World War II movies
Universal Pictures movies