Schindler's List (1993), directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes, and Ben Kingsley, tells the true story of Oskar Schindler, a German industrialist who saved over a thousand Jewish lives during the Holocaust by employing them in his factories.
Why It Matters
- Won seven Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Director — Spielberg's first
- Shot in black and white with a single recurring use of color — a child's red coat — that became one of cinema's most powerful visual metaphors
- Widely considered the definitive Hollywood film about the Holocaust
Spielberg donated his entire director's fee to Holocaust education and has since funded the USC Shoah Foundation. The film remains both a cinematic achievement and a moral document, used in schools and museums worldwide.
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