Review of Schindler's List (1993) by Drlowdon — 09 Nov 2019

• Based on a true story Schindler’s List tells the story of Oskar Schindler, a German businessman who saved more than a thousand (mostly Polish-Jewish) refugees from the Holocaust by employing them in his factories during World War II.

The movie has been criticised in some quarters both for making Schindler a more noble character than he perhaps was in real life, and for leaving out many of the worst atrocities of the period. As Spielberg himself has argued however these were both necessary changes in a movie intended for mainstream cinematic release, and this remains an important and incredibly effective piece of cinema on one of the toughest subjects any director can attempt to cover.