Schindler's List (1993) tells the powerful story of Oskar Schindler, a German businessman who saved the lives of over 1,000 Jewish refugees during the Holocaust. The film culminates in a heartbreaking yet uplifting ending, as Schindler and the Jews he
Schindler's List is a 1993 American epic historical drama film directed and co-produced by Steven Spielberg and written by Steven Zaillian. It is based on the historical novel Schindler's Ark (1982) by Thomas Keneally. The film follows Oskar Schindler, a German industrialist who saved more than a thousand mostly Polish–Jewish refugees from the Holocaust by employing them in his factories during World War II. It stars Liam Neeson as Schindler, Ralph Fiennes as SS officer Amon Göth, and Ben Kingsley as Schindler's Jewish accountant Itzhak Stern.