Schindler's List

Schindler's List is a multiple Academy Award-winning 1993 film based on the book Schindler's Ark by Thomas Keneally. The film, which was directed by Steven Spielberg, tells the real life story of Oskar Schindler, a Sudeten-German Roman Catholic businessman who was instrumental in saving the lives of over one thousand Polish Jews during the Final Solution. The title refers to a list of the names of 1,100 Jews whom Schindler hired to "work" in his factory, but really just to keep them out of the Nazi concentration camps.