| 
 enlarge | Director: Steven Spielberg
Actors: Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes, Caroline Goodall, Jonathan Sagall
Studio: Universal Studios
Category: DVD
List Price: $19.98
Buy Used: $5.00
You Save: $14.98 (75%)
New (51) Used (34) Collectible (1) from $5.00
Avg. Customer Rating:  601 reviews
Sales Rank: 821
Format: Ac-3, Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dts Surround Sound, Dubbed, Dvd-video, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), French (Dubbed), Spanish (Dubbed), Spanish (Published)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 196
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: D23866D
UPC: 025192386626
EAN: 0025192386626
ASIN: B00012QM8G
Theatrical Release Date: December 15, 1993
Release Date: March 9, 2004
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Shipping: Expedited shipping available
Shipping: International shipping available
Condition: DVD in case and part of front artwork onlyDVD is in near perfect conditionVH
|
| Customer Reviews:
 The List...The LIFE November 21, 2007
i wish i could give this film 10 stars. it's absolutely amazing.
i've been wanting to see this movie for as long as i can remember but i never got the chance to, till now. i wonder what took me so long!
"Schindler's List" is one of the very few movies that gets me crying. every second of it is just so enjoyable, every part of it is just filled w/passion and zeal. even though war is ugly and it brings out the nastiest side of humans, this movie makes you forget all that. instead, the main character's (Oskar Schindler) kind heart compels you to believe that there's a good side worth recognizing in every so called 'bad' person.
i adore this movie because well i'm a sucker for passionate films that have the potential to get me tearing up. this movie did just that! and i'm so happy that i saw it (1 minute ago).
now THIS is a MUST-SEE film! screw the rest, watch THIS
One of the most important movies ever made. November 17, 2007
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
I have seen this movie many times,but it has been awhile.
I just rewatched it, and felt compelled to write a review on it.
The movie is Stephen Spielberg's masterpiece on the Holocaust, and it is a totally unforgetable movie.
The acting is AWESOME, and the fact that it is shot in black and white only adds to the authenticity of it.
The main character is Oskar Schindler, a nazi-German living in Poland during WW2.
Although he was a womanizer, and a nazi, he also had great feeling for the Jewish prisoners, and saved thousands of them from sure death, just by coming to work for him in his factory...
Schindler Jews were treated MUCH better than other Jewish prisoners of this time period.
What really boggles my mind about the Holocaust is that these atrocities done to the Jewish people happened in fairly MODERN times...it is just hard to get over that fact, and especially while watching this movie, and seeing jews shot and killed for such unbelivably small things like looking a nazi in the eye, or talking out of turn...it is just unbelivable.
Anyway, the movie basically focuses on Oskar Schindler, and how he helped these people along the way.He fed them right, and did not beat them or abuse them in other ways. He also let them practice thier religion which was UNTHINKABLE back then,
And most importantly, he let them all go when the war was over, and that was where the list comes in.
He and his loyal secretary and friend (a jew), made a list that
broke Schindler by "buying" over a thousand Jews who would have surely died, as most jews did in the end.
This movie has so many unforgettable scenes in it.One in particular was where hundreds of Schindler's women were mistakenly misrouted to the wrong camp, and they were horrified.They were supposed to meet thier husbands and children at schindler's camp, but ended up all stripped down and loaded into what they thought was a gas chamber.
When water (instead of gas) came pouring out on them they all cried in relief. It was terrible.
The train scene was also VERY disturbing. The jews were packed like sardines into railroad cars waiting to ride, on the hottest day imaginable.They were actually baking alive in the cars. Schindler ordered fire hoses to be turned on the cars, and water to be given to them.
These small acts of kindness is actually what saved many lives.
Again I say this movie is probably the most important movie ever made.It is a dark piece of history,yet it needs to be looked at, and never forgotten.Modern day Jewish people STILL flock to visit Oskar Schindler's grave, and leave a stone on it.
As for Mr. Schindler;
On the night his Jews were freed, he became a fugitive himself.
"THIS LIST IS AN ABSOLUTE GOOD. THE LIST IS LIFE." October 25, 2007
schindeler's list, one of the best movies of all time, without a doubt, and one of my absolute favorites. this movie is a masterpiece. very touching on so many levels. it truly is an eye opener, and gives it to you straight. no beating around the bush. very sad, and a tragedy that was so terrible and unreasonable. about one madmans sadistic ruling over so many helpless people. this movie from beginning to end hits you right in the heart. overall look through the eyes of a man who at first didn't give a damn about noone but himself, and turned out to be the savior of so many thankful people. to this day he is remembered. the era of the holocaust. such a tragic event in history, and the fact that this film is based on one man's journey through this rough time makes it all the more realer. if you have not seen it, then you must because there is hardly any words to make you understand what you will feel once you have seen this movie. it starts with the jews giving their names, profession, and they all have to wear a star. the star is a brand. they are branded as jews. little by little they are being kicked out of homes, discarded in the streets, driven off to consentration camps, or thrown in to caged areas to live. they are stripped of their possesions, their identities, they are ripped from their families, and they have no say. they can not object, they can not think, and they can not escape for they will be executed. it is an extermination of all people who are jewish. a command to be carried out as brutally as one can imagine, by a man so evil and sinister he is hell on earth. then comes oscar shindler, a womanizer who's only goal is to make money and look out for himself. he sees what occurs around him but feels nothing and doesn't really care. if it doesn't affect him, what does it matter. he never thought twice about being a part of the nazi crew. until he met itzhak stern, his helper. together they purchase a factory ready to make money, but itzhak has other plans. he knows that this factory can save lives of the hell that surrounds them. so one by one he recruites people. as many as he can to come to schindlers place to work. then oscar realizes what is happening and he can't help but feel some kind of guilt, remorse, and sympathy for these people who have done nothing wrong. he starts to become involved, more aware, and goes broke in order to buy these people, or bribe the higher officials, all in order to save lives. this becomes his goal, he thinks of nothing else but this. all the while making sure he never got caught. by the end you are so involved in the movie you just can't help not to think about it and realize what kind of a man it takes to put his life at risk for others. what do you call a man that gives up everything for these people he knew nothing about. these people that are known as schindlers people. people he grew to care for. thus after this he became a different man. he gained their respect, their love, and their admiration forever. this movie is of the deepest kind, for real, and no other has come to compare to this film. wonderful actors, great depiction of real life events, and a sad but beautiful story. another lesson learned, never give up hope. liam neeson, wonderful actor, excellent role and i got hooked on him after i saw this film. he does it just right. i have just touched the tip of this movie with my review, it is a must see, for all. you see this and you realize that life isn't so bad. at least we have a choice. GREAT FILM!
 The film is weakened by its being onesided October 22, 2007
1 out of 5 found this review helpful
This film was and still is a revolution in our approach of the Shoah, the Holocaust, the extermination of the Jews during the second world war. It reveals in shocking images the tactics used by the Nazis to capture the Jews, here in Poland, in order to seize their possessions and to transform them into slaves. In each city of some importance all the Jews of a region were compelled to regroup and live entirely within the militarily controlled limits of a ghetto. Then the Nazi Party imposed the election or appointing of a Jewish Council to manage the ghetto, that is to say to implement the orders from the Nazis. Then some businessmen, essentially industrialists came to provide the Jews with work and there the Jews became consenting even if forced slaves and later on the ghettos will be liquidated and forced labor camps will further transform the Jews into inmates forced to work for the businessman and kept in order by some SS unit. The value of the film comes from the fact that the industrialist concerned in Krakow, Schindler himself, comes from previously independent Czechoslovakia and is a member of the Nazi party with important connections in Berlin that gives him the upper hand even on the SS. It is unluckily slightly difficult to believe it since the connections are not brought within our knowledge. Who could in Nazi Germany be more powerful than the SS? The film will show how much money this man was able to make with that slave labor. Real fortunes that enabled him to double his political influence with financial corruption. But there it shows how the Jews from the very beginning (the order to go and live in the closest ghettos) right to the very end (either their being sent to Auschwitz to be gassed or being saved and freed by Schindler) will always disbelieve the worst news they could get and always believe in some kind of higher order that will either sacrifice them or save them, that order being from another dimension of time and space. Is it divine, is it a God, is it some kind of cosmic force? No one knows which one, but it is a force against which you cannot do anything. You have to submit and survive if it so pleases this force. This submissiveness is never questioned and hardly contrasted to some Jewish individuals, and only individuals, who would have thought of resisting, or at least escaping. No matter what happens, they sing a song of lamentation or a song of thanks, but they were reduced to a herd of cattle and they submitted to that fate. It is pathetic to see how Schindler's Jews do not protest against any violence or whatever. They just, on arriving in Auschwitz, call the name of their "Nazi Master", Schindler himself. They have been reduced to being Schindler's herd. The vision is absolutely disquieting, disturbing, sickening. That definitely is the worst part of such a war. And that absolute alienation is constantly brought back by any war, be it in Palestine, in Lebanon or in Iraq. That's were the film is poignant and at the same time finds its limit. The film avoids all other types of exterminated group, ethnic or not, because all these other groups produced another attitude: rebellion, refusal, fight, struggle. It is also important to see that even in Poland, even in these ghettos, even within these Jewish Councils there was some refusal, rebellion, even a rebellion in the name of freedom in spite of it meaning immediate death: better die than submit to the final degradation, alienation, internalized victimization. Stephen Spielberg hence does not reflect the whole historical truth but favors one approach only. That explains why the film feels as having aged with time and the end definitely becomes morbidly sentimental: love and gratefulness for the one who made them slaves and only saved them because they were his property that he bought with the money they produced. He is only saving his own possessions, like a rancher would protect his herd. The ending thus is too positive to be acceptable. If the Jews had been able to massively move into rebellion, resistance, guerrilla warfare or even plain warfare, the war could have been different. We are speaking of more than two million Jews just in Poland. To run down such a human wall you need time and quite a lot of tanks and planes. Hence it does not bring in any profit but cost a tremendous amount of money. Could Hitler have afforded it without having to cut some further actions short? A beautiful black and white film but that only shows one side of the picture.
Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris Dauphine, University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne & University Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines
You will be wiser and kinder when you're done watching this movie... October 17, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Schindler's List depicts the story of how Oskar Schindler, a German business man whom belonged to the Nazi party goes on to save the lives of a couple thousand Jews during World War II. Schindler is at first portrayed as a greedy business man, whom cares about little more than wealth and the finer things in life. However, we see early on that he has a kind heart. Schindler is appalled by what he witnesses at the concentration camps. The death, famine, and despair that was rampant in those concentration camps spurred Schindler into action. He is also disgusted by how the German officers and SS agents treat and kill the Jews, as if they were no more than animals.
Eventually, Schindler sees that he can "purchase" Jews to work in his factory. He masks the rescue of the Jews by employing them in his factory, although at this point he no longer cares about production or wealth. The factory is not producing any money, but Schindler is only worried with saving as many lives as possible. The culmination of this great story, for me, is at the end when the Jews present Schindler with a small medallion to show their appreciation for his effort. Oskar Schindler breaks down sobbing and expresses how much he wishes that he could have saved more Jews.
In the end, we see the "real-life" Jews that Schindler saved as they place stones on Schindler's tomb. Many are accompanied by their family members. I don't recall the exact number, but the original Jews that Schindler saved multiplied to something like 10, 000 people. Hence, Oskar Schindler's effect was way more than he expected. The story of Oskar Schindler and the Jews he saved restores at least a little bit of your faith in humaniy, despite the atrocities that occurred during World War II. I highly reccomend this movie and I firmly believe that it should be part of every person's DVD collection.
|
|
|