Schindler's List

Origin: U.S (Amblin, Universal) 1993
Length: 197 minutes
Format: BW/ Color
Director: Stephen Spielberg
Producer: Branko Lustig, Gerald R. Molen, Steven Spielberg
Screenplay: Steven Zaillian, from the novel Schindler's Ark by Thomas Keneally
Photography: Janusz Kaminski
Music: John Williams
Cast: Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes, Caroline Goodall, Jonathon Sagall, Embeth Davidtz, Malgoscha Gebel, Shmulik Lev, Mark Ivanir, Beatrice Macola, Andrzej Seweryn, Friedrich von Thun, Krzysztof Luft, Harry Nehring, Norbert Weisser
Oscars: Steven Spielberg, Gerald R. Molen, Branko Lustig(best picture), Steven Spielberg(director), Steven Zaillian(screenplay), Allan Starski, Ewa Braun(art direction), Janusz Kaminski(photography), Michael Kahn(editing), John Williams(music)
Oscar Nominations: Liam Neeson(actor), Ralph Fiennes(actor in support role), Anna B. Sheppard(costume), Christina Smith, Matthew W. Mungle, Judith A. Cory(makeup), Andy Nelson, Steve Pederson, Scott Millan, Ron Judkins(sound)
Links: Schindler's List Wiki, Schindler's List Trailer, Schindler's Ark Wiki

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Working from a well-constructed script by Steven Zaillian, adapting Thomas Keneally's nonfiction novel - a fascinating account of the Nazi businessman Oskar Schindler, who saved the lives of over 1,100 Polish Jews - Spielberg does an uncommonly good job both of holding our interest over 185 minutes and of showing more of the nuts and bolts of the Holocaust than we usually get from fiction films.

Some things that are not in the film that actually did occur in real life:

- Shindler's wife, Emille played a major role in saving Jewish lives after he resumed living with her while he was establishing a mock munitions plant in Moravia. Also, during this time, Schindler continued to betray her with other women.

- Some Polish Jews had to bribe Schindler in order to make his list.