Schindler’S List Essays

Steven Spielberg directs Schindler’s List, a film about the plight of the Jews in World War Two. There are many techniques used by Steven Spielberg to great effect but the main ones are the use of shadow and contrapuntal sound to portray the experiences and the extreme terror that the …

            How did Oskar Schindler primarily use the list of Jewish workers as a means of making money rather than saving the lives of his Jewish workers? Oskar Schinder who is credited for saving the lives of 1,200 Jews in Europe was born on 28th of April 1908 in Czechoslovakia. …

This movie gave me the first impression was that everything in the film was black and white. It made me feel depressed and horrible. The images showed that many innocent Jewish people were killed, and arrested as the cheap labors and slaves by Nazi. I am shocked by these inhuman …

Ⅰ. Plot Summary Schindler’s List is an epic drama film which depicts a real historical event of the nightmarish Holocaust during the World War Ⅱ. It is an account of the life of Oskar Schindler, a German entrepreneur who uses his wisdom and courage to protect more than 1,100 European …

Some say that during the Holocaust, Jews “went like sheep to the slaughter.” Overall, does the movie confirm or contradict this statement. Consider large and small acts of resistance, which you saw in the movie Schindler’s List. Overall, does the movie confirm or contradict this statement? Please use specific examples …

At the start of the movie we can see Schindler starting out with a meager amount of money but through useful manipulation during the scene with the banquet attended by the high ranking officials he was able to enter into the close knit circle of the Nazi Party. The question …

Oskar Schindler was Nazi in good stead with the regime, as his gold pin would suggest. A married man, he lived with a German mistress and maintained an affair with his secretary. He was a shrewd businessman, and his dealings were often under the table, and his business thrived through …

March 20, 1941, the Krakow ghetto is liquidated. 1942, German oppression spills into Transylvania, the Sighet ghetto is liquidated. Two seemingly unrelated events in a plethora of death and oppression. However, both are turning points in two of the most stunningly horrific accounts of the Holocaust; Spielberg’s Schindler’s List, and …