Film

Schindler's List 1993

Directed by Steven Spielberg

  • Drama, History, War
  • 195 min
  • R

Whoever saves one life, saves the world entire.

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.

DramaHistoryWarfactoryheronaziconcentration campss (nazi schutzstaffel)holocaust (shoah)world war iighettojew persecutionkraków, polanddefense industryauschwitz-birkenau concentration camp

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