Schindler's List -Widescreen Edition- [VHS]

Amazing really inspiring!
Based on a true the Schindler `s List is a story about Oskar Schindler, who is a German businessman in Poland who sees an opportunity to make money from the Nazi's now ruling Germany. He starts a company to make cookware and utensils and then uses bribes to win military contract. He also hires an accountant Itzhak Stern 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 very dependable labor force. For Stern, who is also a Jew this job could mean survival for himself and the other Jews working for Schindler. Then n 1942, all of Krakow's Jews are assigned to the Plaszow Forced Labor Camp, overseen by Commandant Amon Goet who is a raging alcoholic who occasionally shoots prisoners from his balcony for fun. 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 is the only thing preventing his staff from being shipped to the death camps. He then begins to demands more workers in effort to keep more Jews alive 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 death at a concentration camp. This movie is very inspiring and relates greatly to World Religion in this time period Hitler was out to make an Aryan race which included blonde hair and blue eyes which left many Jews out of that category. To better accomplish this goal he isolated them and sent them to concentration camps to be killed. Judaism was not accepted because of Hitler's belief but the events of the Holocaust made the Jewish people stronger and made sure that their children and the rest of the world know what they went through so that it would never be forgotten or happen again.

every German is evil?
this movie is in my opinion extreme hate propaganda against germany and its people even the hero schindler is shown in this movie as a bad-corrupt guy-in over 180 minutes I cannot find just one second where the jew isn't shown as the victim with sad dog eyes and the german like an evil monster without any human feelings-this is pure hollywood but far far away from reality. technical good made but not realistic at all.

The Latest in a Long Line
Schindler's List begins with a slightly frenzied scene showing the Jewish people being registered. It then moves through several scenes introducing Schindler and showing his level of influence. The movie flows through the first three years quickly until the year 1941, when the Jewish people are forced into the Ghetto. At this point, Schindler is seemingly becoming successful in finding Jewish investors to help him acquire a company in return for household items to trade on the black market. It is revealed that Schindler and his "assistant" are saving Jewish people by not only forging papers saying that the people are "essential" to the community because they are metal workers, but also by teaching the things that they need to know to do their said trade, among other things. Schindler acquires and opens his company, and hires the Jewish people that they have trained. In 1943 the ghetto is raided by the Nazis. The people there are rounded up and sent to the concentration camps, if they are not shot on site. Everyone there is killed. People are killing themselves to avoid being rounded up. Families are torn apart. I could not control my tears at this point. Schindler watches all of this from a hilltop. At one point he begins bringing people in to his factory from the concentration camps; his factory as seen as a safe haven. To me, it gets somewhat confusing as this point, various scenes from the concentration camps, and the lives of Schindler and the Commandant. The prisoners smeared their cheeks and lips with blood to appear healthy enough to avoid selection. I cannot bring myself to describe some of the horrible things that happened. Schindler compiles a list of those people that he can take to his factory- he purchases them all. The women's train is sent to Auschwitz by mistake, but Schindler is able to get them back. He not only saves their lives, he treats them with respect and dignity. Oscar Schindler did amazing and risky things to help whoever he could, however he could. It is good to know that, even in the midst of such atrocities, there are people who still try to do good things. Even at its happiest, and I use the term loosely, it is a heartbreaking movie, made more so by the knowledge that it is true. So, how does this relate to Judaism as a religion? This movie shows of a period when the complete eradication of the Jewish people was supposedly needed for religious purification. One group of, I'll use the term misguided, souls began the terrorizing, torture, and murder of over six million Jewish men, women, and, most vilely, children. While the movie illustrates the most horrific event to take place by mankind, it is only the last on the long list of mass murder and exile that the Jewish people have undergone throughout history. Over and over the Jewish people have been discriminated on simply because of their faith. And yet, through all of these horrors, so many have the strength to retain the religion for which they were prosecuted. I can only hope and pray with every fiber of my being that nothing like the holocaust ever happens again.

Schindler's List
Schindler's List is about the Holocaust and a man named Oskar Schindler who became an unlikely hero during to the Jews. Throughout the movie we see the progression of the war and the changes that occur for Jewish families in Germany and Poland. Schindler seems to possess psychic abilities as he moves to this area with the intent of capitalizing on the war. He speaks with a Jewish businessman and accountant names Itzhak Stern, who is also a valued member of the Jewish community, about potential investors in his ideas. Stern helps Schindler obtain investors and initiate his business. Schindler purchases a metal factory and with the advice of Stern begins to run the factory using solely Jews for laborers. Stern helps arrange for important members of the community to get jobs at this factory, as those who are working are safe from being removed from the ghettos at that time. Eventually a labor camp is established nearby and the factory workers are forced to begin working under the Nazi commander Goth. Goth is very brutal and the Jews are killed for the slightest thing under his leadership. Schindler befriends Goth and is able to keep an eye out for Stern who he appears to care for deeply, taking him food from a party one time. When Goth is notified to close his labor camp and send his workers to Auschwitz. Schindler convinces Goth to allow him to purchase his workers in order to open his own factory in his hometown. Goth allows him to make a list of the people that he wants, and Schindler and Stern make a list of all the people they can think of. Schindler has to rush to Auschwitz and is able to bribe the head SS officer to allow him to take "his" Jews after a misdirection of the women's train. We learn the Schindler has no intentions of really producing ammo for the war, but actually only protecting the Jews. Schindler uses all the money he has made to support the workers and bribe Nazi officials. Just as Schindler's money is about to run out, the Germany army surrenders. This film depicts scenes of family worship during the Nazi occupation of Poland. It shows scenes of the families praying prior to eating. There is also a scene from the train station that depicts the important belongings the Jews have chosen to bring with them, there are multiple menorahs and other religious items on the shelves along with clothing and jewelry, displaying how important religion was to them. After the Jews are moved to Schindler's factory, he allows them to observe the Sabbath and practice their religion more openly. Before he leaves the Jews at the factory, they give him a ring with a quote from the Talmud that states, "He who saves the life of one man, saves the world entire." This was to show their appreciation to him, but it also shows their religion as they incorporate it into their gift.

Review
I thought that this was a great movie. It shows that Oscar Schindler even though a Nazi helped out thousands of Jews. It shows the struggle of what the Jews went through, but also how much effort it took Schindler to get the Jews into his factory. I think that this movie it showed what happened to the Jews, but I also thought that it should that not all Jews were killed. There were some Jews that got saved by this one man. Because of Schindler there are now more Schindler Jews. There were parts of the movie that I did think was very cruel such as killing people for no reason. This movie is very graphic so children should not watch this movie. Also make sure that you set aside 3 hours and 16 minutes because that is how long the movie is. Also it would not be a good movie to watch before you go to bed. It does have a happy ending, but there are some parts that are not so happy.