Movie #6: Schindler's List

Movie #: 6
Movie Title: Schindler's List
Year Released: 1993

Director: Steven Spielberg
Notable Cast: Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes, Caroline Goodall, Jonathan Sagall, Embeth Davidtz

Short Description: In German-occupied Poland during World War II, Oskar Schindler gradually becomes concerned for his Jewish workforce after witnessing their persecution by the Nazi Germans. (IMDB.com)


Rank on the Top 100 Lists (as of 1/7/2013)

AFI.com: #8
IMDB.com: #8
Ranker.com: #10
Lifed.com: #3
Empire.com: #44
FilmCrave.com: #10
FlickChart.com: #56



Date Watched: 12/19/2016

Grade: 4.5 out of 5 (Outstanding)

Rationale: Schindler's List, more so than any other movie I've watched, exposes how emotional I'm becoming as I age. The inhumane brutality of the Nazis towards the Jewish people, particularly during the purging of the ghetto and the exhuming and burning of corpses in the concentration camp, was incredibly hard to watch and Steven Spielberg did the right thing by not shielding the audience from these atrocities because they happened and it would be wrong to sugar coat the facts. The main scene that had me absolutely bawling, though, was near the end of the movie when Oskar Schindler himself becomes an emotional wreck after acknowledging that he could have done more to save more Jewish people, even though he did end up saving around 1,200 people from a likely death. Schindler's List may turn off a lot of people because of its content, but I do recommend everyone at least try to watch it once because it is a historically significant film that tells an important story.