***Schindler's List*** is a 1993 American historical drama 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
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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
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* 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

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*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.

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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).

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