| | |  | Childrens & Family | Home » » Schindler's List (Widescreen Edition) | | | | | | | Product Promotions: | | | | | Description: | | Schindler's List, a Steven Spielberg film, is a cinematic masterpiece that has become one of the most honored films of all time. Winner of seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director, it also won every major Best Picture award and an exceptional number of additional honors. Among them were seven British Academy Awards; the Best Picture Awards from the New York Film Critics Circle, the National Society of Film Critics, the National Board of Review, the Producers Guild, the Los Angeles Film Critics, the Chicago, Boston and Dallas Film Critics; a Christopher Award; and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association Golden Globe Awards. Steven Spielberg was further honored with the Directors Guild of America Award. The film presents the indelible true story of the enigmatic Oskar Schindler, a member of the Nazi party, womanizer, and war profiteer who saved the lives of more than 1,100 Jews during the Holocaust. It is the triumph of one man who made a difference, and the drama of those who survived one of the darkest chapters in human history because of what he did. Directed by Steven Spielberg, the film, which also won Academy Awards for Screenplay, Cinematography, Music, Editing and Art Direction, stars an acclaimed cast headed by Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes, Caroline Goodall, Jonathan Sagalle and Embeth Davidtz. | | | Product Details: | | | Actors:
| Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes, Ben Kingsley, Caroline Goodall, Jonathan Sagall | | Director:
| Steven Spielberg | | Format:
| AC-3, Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Dubbed, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC | | Subtitle:
| Spanish, French | | Number of Discs:
| 1 | | Studio:
| Universal Studios | | Run Time:
| 195 minutes | | DVD Release Date:
| March 09, 2004 | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 646 reviews |
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 Watch the documentary about Monika Goth meeting her father's concentration camp servant.Aug 26, 2010
I was so skeeved out when Voldemort bibbled something about how Israelites have some kind of unique talent for seduction because he was gagging for his terrified prisoner/maid. But then I watched a documentary on public television about Amon Goth's daughter, Monika, who strongly resembles her father and is very tall. She lived in some kind of compound with the rest of the families of the big names on the Nahtzee side of the war and she said that Herman Goerrhing's daughter had no sympathy for her father's victims and was quite arrogant about her exalted position as the daughter of someone important whereas Monika felt regretful. Then I saw a picture of her mother who COULD be considered a Susan Lucci type BUT who seems to resonate Jewishness to me and I had a flash, an epiphany perhaps? what if in this one incident, Schindler's List is about Amon Goth actually changing sides for his Jewish wife? Is that possible? Who went into his ovens? Because how could anyone not notice that Amon Goth's widow looks like a ....
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 You can always count on Spielberg to "improve" history.Jul 28, 2010
This is good fairly good movie, some rather clunky symbolism aside, except for the fact that it's not the way it happened. After doing some research I find 75-90% of this story is invented. Schindler was a business man who went broke in Nazi Germany by bribing officials & helping to hide Jews. But he wasn't the bon vivant playboy as shown in the movie, he didn't have a long struggle to develop conscious, and most of the plot is supposition at best. If you prefer schmaltz to facts you will probably love it, but if you want history don't look to this movie.
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One of the most important films ever made!Jul 18, 2010
I can watch this movie & cry every time. Guaranteed. In fact, I just sat & watched it, then blubbered like a baby. If you have any interest in cinema at all, you must watch this film. I'd honestly rank it at the same level as Citizen Kane & on the scale of movies that reach your every emotion? It'd be at my #1 spot. I've seen movies that make me cry, but this is almost the only film I've watched that gets me every time.
Since there's so many reviews on here that give a synopsis, I'll not bother giving one. If you haven't guessed already, I love this movie. I can't watch it all the time though- it hits your emotions that hard & you need some time for the impact of the movie to hit you.
I love that this movie is predominantly in black & white- it makes it feel more in tune with the era. Plus when you see some things in the movie (the infamous girl in the red coat), it makes you notice things more, pay closer attention. It made everything more real. I also love the choice of actors. Not only does this film feature Ben Kingsley (a man who could act in anything & be fantastic), but it also had Liam Neeson in what might be the best role he'll ever do in his life.
I know I'm heaping praise upon praise, but this film deserves it. I was in high school when this film came out & it was almost required watching from all of my teachers & I'm glad for it. If you don't come out of this film feeling grateful for the life you have, then you are either in an intensely horrible lifestyle or you are taking your life for granted.
Even if you have to rent this, watch this film.
Amazing really inspiring!May 08, 2010
Based on a true the Schindler `s List is a story about Oskar Schindler, who is a German businessman in Poland who sees an opportunity to make money from the Nazi's now ruling Germany. He starts a company to make cookware and utensils and then uses bribes to win military contract. He also hires an accountant Itzhak Stern to help run the factory. By staffing his plant with Jews who've been herded into Krakow's ghetto by Nazi troops, Schindler has a very dependable labor force. For Stern, who is also a Jew this job could mean survival for himself and the other Jews working for Schindler. Then n 1942, all of Krakow's Jews are assigned to the Plaszow Forced Labor Camp, overseen by Commandant Amon Goet who is a raging alcoholic who occasionally shoots prisoners from his balcony for fun. Schindler arranges to continue using Polish Jews in his plant, but, as he sees what is happening to his employees, he begins to develop a conscience. He realizes that his factory is the only thing preventing his staff from being shipped to the death camps. He then begins to demands more workers in effort to keep more Jews alive and starts bribing Nazi leaders to keep Jews on his employee lists and out of the camps. By the time Germany falls to the allies, Schindler has lost his entire fortune -- and saved 1,100 people from death at a concentration camp.
This movie is very inspiring and relates greatly to World Religion in this time period Hitler was out to make an Aryan race which included blonde hair and blue eyes which left many Jews out of that category. To better accomplish this goal he isolated them and sent them to concentration camps to be killed. Judaism was not accepted because of Hitler's belief but the events of the Holocaust made the Jewish people stronger and made sure that their children and the rest of the world know what they went through so that it would never be forgotten or happen again.
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every German is evil?Apr 29, 2010
this movie is in my opinion extreme hate propaganda against germany and its people even the hero schindler is shown in this movie as a bad-corrupt guy-in over 180 minutes I cannot find just one second where the jew isn't shown as the victim with sad dog eyes and the german like an evil monster without any human feelings-this is pure hollywood but far far away from reality.
technical good made but not realistic at all.
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