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Name: Schindler's List
Director: Steven Spielberg
Genre: drama, history, war
Released: 1993
Duration: 3 h 15 min
Rating: 9

Schindler's List has an iRankMovies score of 92.6/100, based on a weighted combination of IMDb (×3.0), Rotten Tomatoes (×2.0), Metacritic (×1.5), and TMDb (×1.0).

Schindler's List (1993)

Whoever saves one life, saves the world entire.

Release:1993

Runtime:3h 15m

Country:United States

Director:Steven Spielberg

Language:English

Genre

DramaHistoryWar

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Keywords

FactoryheroNaziConcentration CampSs Nazi SchutzstaffelHolocaust ShoahWorld War IiGhetto

iRank93

Schindler's List rating: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic

IMDb9/10· 1.6M votes

Rotten Tomatoes98%

Metacritic95%

TMDb8.57/10· 18K votes

With 98% on Rotten Tomatoes, backed by 9/10 on IMDb and 95/100 on Metacritic, critical reception of this film has been very positive.

About Schindler's List

The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis while they worked as slaves in his factory during World War II.

Cast of Schindler's List

Liam Neeson
as Oskar Schindler
Ben Kingsley
as Itzhak Stern
Ralph Fiennes
as Amon Goeth
Caroline Goodall
as Emilie Schindler
Jonathan Sagall
as Poldek Pfefferberg
Embeth Davidtz
as Helen Hirsch
Małgorzata Gebel
as Viktoria Klonowska
Shmuel Levy
as Wilek Chilowicz
Mark Ivanir
as Marcel Goldberg
Béatrice Macola
as Ingrid
Andrzej Seweryn
as Julian Scherner
Friedrich von Thun
as Rolf Czurda

Schindler's List facts

Budget: $22M
Box office: $321.4M

Our take on Schindler's List

Spielberg's stark, black-and-white account of Oskar Schindler — a profiteer who came to spend his fortune saving over a thousand Jewish workers from the Holocaust — is among cinema's most harrowing and humane historical dramas. Unflinching yet never exploitative, it finds grace inside atrocity. If its moral weight and historical gravity stayed with you, seek out serious wartime dramas that confront real horror while honouring the people who resisted it.

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Audience opinions

What the audience liked

•Unflinching historical portrayal maintains emotional weight and moral seriousness throughout
•Central performance grounds tragedy in human perspective avoiding melodramatic excess
•Austere cinematography creates contemplative atmosphere respecting gravity of subject matter

What the audience disliked

•Unrelenting darkness and historical horrors prove emotionally exhausting for viewers
•Conventional redemption arc slightly simplifies moral complexity of historical events