1 month ago 07th Oct 11:34
Next in our countdown of cinema's best war movies is Steven Spielberg's epic World War II Holocaust drama Schindler's List, which is based on a true story.
Unrepentant womaniser and war profiteer Oskar Schindler uses Polish Jews as cheap labour to produce cookware for the Third Reich.
But after witnessing the violent liquidation of the walled ghetto where the Krakow Jews have been forced to live, Schindler slowly begins to realize the immense evil of Nazism.
When his employees are sent to a work camp, they come under the terrorizing reign of sadistic Nazi Amon Goeth (Ralph Fiennes).
With the help of his accountant, Itzhak Stern (Ben Kingsley), Schindler creates a list of "essential" Jews. Bribing Goeth, Schindler manages to get 1,100 people released from the camp and brought to the safety of his munitions factory in Czechoslovakia.
Over the years Spielberg has brought us movies about aliens and sharks but Schindler's List is possibly the most frightening movie that he has ever made as he delivers a movie that shows the brutality of the Nazi regime.
Despite being most famous for his blockbuster, big budget movies the director once again, after Empire of the Sun, has shown that he can handle controversial subjects with sophistication as well as sensitivity as he proves that he knew the line he was walking with such a delicate topic.
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by Steve - 09:11:33 8th Oct 2008
A very good film... seen it twice and cried both times!!