Schindler's List

UPC: 025192386626

Studio: Universal Studios

MPAA Rating: R   Contains:[Graphic Violence, Nudity, Adult Situations, Not For Children, Profanity, Watch With Your Teen]

Summary: Based on a true story, Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List stars Liam Neeson as Oskar Schindler, a German businessman in Poland who sees an opportunity to make money from the Nazis' rise to power. He starts a company to make cookware and utensils, using flattery and bribes to win military contracts, and brings in accountant and financier Itzhak Stern (Ben Kingsley) 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 dependable unpaid labor force. For Stern, a job in a war-related plant could mean survival for himself and the other Jews working for Schindler. However, in 1942, all of Krakow's Jews are assigned to the Plaszow Forced Labor Camp, overseen by Commandant Amon Goeth (Ralph Fiennes), an embittered alcoholic who occasionally shoots prisoners from his balcony. 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 (now refitted to manufacture ammunition) is the only thing preventing his staff from being shipped to the death camps. Soon Schindler demands more workers 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 likely death. Schindler's List was nominated for 12 Academy Awards and won seven, including Best Picture and a long-coveted Best Director for Spielberg, and it quickly gained praise as one of the finest American movies about the Holocaust. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi

Category: Drama

Awards: Best Picture – British Academy of Film and Television Arts David Lean Award – British Academy of Film and Television Arts Best Adapted Screenplay – British Academy of Film and Television Arts Best Actor – British Academy of Film and Television Arts Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion – British Academy of Film and Television Arts Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion – British Academy of Film and Television Arts Best Score – British Academy of Film and Television Arts Best Picture – British Academy of Film and Television Arts Best Director – British Academy of Film and Television Arts Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion – British Academy of Film and Television Arts Best Picture – British Academy of Film and Television Arts Best Picture – British Academy of Film and Television Arts Best Picture - Drama – null Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Musical or – null Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion – null Best Director – null Best Screenplay – null Best Original Score – null 100 Greatest American Movies – American Film Institute Best Picture – Los Angeles Film Critics Association Best Cinematography – Los Angeles Film Critics Association Best Production Design – Los Angeles Film Critics Association Best Director – Directors Guild of America Best Actor – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Adapted Screenplay – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Art Direction – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Cinematography – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Costume Design – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Director – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Editing – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Makeup – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Makeup – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Makeup – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Picture – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Score – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Sound – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Sound – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Sound – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Sound – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Picture – National Board of Review Best Picture – National Society of Film Critics Best Director – National Society of Film Critics Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion – National Society of Film Critics Best Cinematography – National Society of Film Critics Best Cinematography – American Society of Cinematographers Best Picture – New York Film Critics Circle Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion – New York Film Critics Circle Best Cinematography – New York Film Critics Circle Best Picture – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Picture – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Supporting Actor – New York Film Critics Circle Best Screenplay – Hollywood Foreign Press Association Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Musical or – Hollywood Foreign Press Association Best Picture - Drama – Hollywood Foreign Press Association Best Supporting Actor – British Academy of Film and Television Arts Best Supporting Actor – National Society of Film Critics Best Supporting Actor – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Original Score – Hollywood Foreign Press Association Best Director – Hollywood Foreign Press Association Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion – Hollywood Foreign Press Association Best Supporting Actor – British Academy of Film and Television Arts Best Supporting Actor – British Academy of Film and Television Arts Best Foreign Film – French Academy of Cinema

Features: "Voices From the List" featurette
"The Shoah Foundation Story With Steven Spielberg" featurette

Schindler's List

Format: DVD

Release Date: 03/09/2004

Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1 Theatre Wide-Screen

Audio: DD5.1 Dolby Digital 5.1, DTS Digital Theater Systems

Runtime: 196 Minutes

Sides: 2

Number of Discs: 1

Language(s) English,Spanish,French

Subtitles: English,Spanish,French

Region: USA & territories, Canada

Chapters: Side #1 -- Side A
1. Chapter 1 [3:23]
2. Chapter 2 [6:48]
3. Chapter 3 [4:39]
4. Chapter 4 [2:37]
5. Chapter 5 [4:13]
6. Chapter 6 [2:05]
7. Chapter 7 [6:49]
8. Chapter 8 [3:46]
9. Chapter 9 [7:19]
10. Chapter 10 [2:33]
11. Chapter 11 [6:38]
12. Chapter 12 [4:13]
13. Chapter 13 [1:35]
14. Chapter 14 [8:18]
15. Chapter 15 [8:40]
16. Chapter 16 [3:20]
17. Chapter 17 [8:55]
18. Chapter 18 [3:24]
19. Chapter 19 [2:34]
20. Chapter 20 [6:35]
21. Chapter 21 [4:42]
22. Chapter 22 [6:16]
23. Chapter 23 [6:09]
24. Chapter 24 [2:56]
25. Chapter 25 [4:16]
26. Chapter 26 [3:49]
27. Chapter 27 [3:22]
Side #2 -- Side B
1. Chapter 28 [4:37]
2. Chapter 29 [8:24]
3. Chapter 30 [7:28]
4. Chapter 31 [4:32]
5. Chapter 32 [2:27]
6. Chapter 33 [5:06]
7. Chapter 34 [1:50]
8. Chapter 35 [2:10]
9. Chapter 36 [5:05]
10. Chapter 37 [6:23]
11. Chapter 38 [3:14]
12. Chapter 39 [3:44]
13. Chapter 40 [6:21]

Richard Gilliam

Schindler's List was among the major cultural events of 1993, a superbly realized remembrance of European Jews who suffered genocidal persecution during World War II. As a film, it transcends critical evaluation with its overwhelming social message. Nonetheless, specific aspects of the film stand out, in particular Liam Neeson's complex performance as the humane industrialist who protects his workers from the horrors of German concentration camps. Widely considered director Steven Spielberg's masterpiece, Schindler's List is a landmark moment in cinema. It is frequently used as a teaching tool, and it has helped ensure a public awareness of Nazi atrocities for years to come. ~ Richard Gilliam, Rovi

Cast and Crew: Erwin Leder  Actor 
Osman Ragheb  Actor 
Norbert Weisser  Actor 
Malgoscha Gebel  Actor 
Fritz Fleischhacker  Actor 
Bettina Kupfer  Actor 
Peter Flechtner  Actor 
Olaf Lubaszenko  Actor 
August Schmolzer  Actor 
Jacek Wojcicki  Actor 
Leopold Kozlowski  Actor 
Juliet Taylor  Actor 
Ludger Pistor  Actor 
Tadeusz Huk  Actor 
Vili Matula  Actor 
Martin Semmelrogge  Actor 
Henryk Bista  Actor 
Jerzy Nowak  Actor 
Rami Heuberger  Actor 
Wojciech Klata  Actor 
Adam Siemion  Actor 
Ezra Dagan  Actor 
Eugeniusz Priwieziencew  Actor 
Haymon Maria Buttinger  Actor 
Anna Mucha  Actor 
Andrzej Seweryn  Actor 
Tadeusz Bradecki  Actor 
Beata Paluch  Actor 
Shmulik Levy  Actor 
Martin Bergmann  Actor 
Agnieszka Kruk  Actor 
Jochen Nickel  Actor 
Frederick von Thun  Actor 
Jeremy Flynn  Actor 
Branko Lustig  Actor 
Georges Kern  Actor 
Elina Löwensohn  Actor 
Maciej Winkler  Actor 
Mark Ivanir  Actor 
Lucky Englander  Actor 
Thomas Morris  Actor 
Beatrice Macola  Actor 
Michael Schneider  Actor 
David Gilbert  Actor 
Maciej Kozlowski  Actor 
Geno Lechner  Actor 
Hans Michael Rehberg  Actor 
Jerry Molen  Producer 
Kathleen Kennedy  Executive Producer 
Gerald R. Molen  Producer 
Steven Spielberg  Director 
Steven Spielberg  Producer 
John Williams  Composer (Music Score) 
Steven Zaillian  Screenwriter 
Branko Lustig  Producer 
Liam Neeson  Actor 
Ben Kingsley  Actor 
Ralph Fiennes  Actor 
Caroline Goodall  Actor 
Jonathan Sagall  Actor 
Embeth Davidtz  Actor 

Country: USA