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Schindler's List

1993 · Movie · 195 min

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Scores

  • IMDb9.0/10as of 2026-02-18
  • Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer98%as of 2026-01-16
  • Rotten Tomatoes average9.2/10as of 2021-10-06
  • Metacritic95/100as of 2026-01-16

What it is

Schindler's List is a 1993 American 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.

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Genres
Drama / History / War / Adventure
Original language
English

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