FIRST TIME WATCHING * Schindler's List (1993) * MOVIE REACTION!! 

“We’re actually just watching a horror movie that actually happened”- You nailed the whole reason this movie HAD to be made.

When Steven Spielberg first showed John Williams a cut of this movie, Williams was so moved he had to take a walk outside for several minutes to collect himself. Upon his return, he told Spielberg he deserved a better composer. Spielberg replied, "I know, but they're all dead."

As a decendant of a Schindler Jew...This was easily the most horrifyingly genuine reaction I've ever seen. I mean that in a good way. You've set the gold standard on how this movie and its topic should rightfully be approached. Well done, kids. Well done. ❤ 🖖

Schindlers breakdown about wanting to save “Just one more” is still to this day one of the greatest emotional scenes in film. Neeson’s acting is fucking incredible and it brings me to tears without fail. Hands down the single most important film in human history and very important nowadays as this heinous ideology has been rearing its despicable head again.

Ralph Feinnes was so realistic as Amon Goeth that the actual survivors were horrified at how real he portrayed Goeth

"I could have got one more person, and I didn't!" That line will never fail to utterly destroy me. RIP Herr Schindler, and bless you.

This movie should be played in every high school in the world. Not so we just don't forget, but a reminder to not sit by and let evil happen

A little for Ash, who loves Robin Williams : during the shooting of this film, the subject being so hard and depressing, Spielberg made a point to have a call with Robin Williams from time to time so the comedian could ramble and joke for 30 minutes via phone (while being put on speaker) or so in order to entertain the cast and the whole movie crew and to ligthen up the mood of everyone on set.

The horrific thing about these events is that they were way more violent and barbaric than the film can safely depict. One of the worst events in human history.

You better let Hannah watch a happy movie soon lol

We had a survivor from a camp visit our school in the 90s. He told us they made them eat saw dust and kiss the ground they walked on literally. He told us his wife tells him he wakes up screaming without realizing it. He told us the reason he's doing this is so the horror never happens again. I'll never forget that day everyone was crying and just in shock

When she said she didn’t think anything could beat Green Mile for tears. I actually laughed out loud. I thought, you better have yours arms ready to comfort her the rest of the night. This movie will rip her heart in two.

As awful as Goeth was portrayed in this movie, Spielberg actually toned him down as he didn’t think people would believe just how evil and vile he really was.

The girl in the red coat - symbolizes how such an atrocity happened, in broad daylight, that the world ignored the murder of millions.

"To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time" -Elie Weisel. As hard as this is to watch it is so so important , love this film. Thanks for the reaction 🖤

As a German we had to watch this movie with our whole grade when I was in 9th grade (14-15 y/o). It was mandatory to watch it, and you weren't allowed to miss out on it with a parents note like it used to be with normal field trips or movie events. Our school even rented a small cinema for that, so we got the whole experience with the gunshots with surround sound. It was really hard to watch, especially with the contexts that we had learned and would continue to discuss in history lessons after the movie. A few students had to go out to take a few deep breaths

I was afraid Hannah would literally stop watching. The power of this movie is in its truth. As unbelievable as it is, history is full of man's inhumanity to man. Never forget.

Steven Spielberg intentionally left out the worst incidents of brutality committed by Goeth because he thought people would think it was exaggerated.

The heartbreak from Hannah was awful to witness but the "GET IN THE FUCKIN SEWER" made it all worth it.

This film is more relevant now than ever before. People have either forgotten or denied the truth and lessons of this film. We can't afford to forget.

The thing about the pain of this sort of thing is that the people who died deserve to be remembered no matter how horrifying it is. Because the horror they endured is far worse than the act of remembering some of humanity's greatest failures. It's the least we can do. Thanks for sticking with it Hannah.

"Now people beg for feet pics & nudes..." LOL, it takes a special talent to make someone laugh during "Schindler's list" without saying something wildly inappropriate. Well done, Ash!🏆

This movie was so hard to make emotionally and spiritually for everyone involved. It's stated somewhere that Spielberg would call Robin Williams and put him on speaker phone to make the cast and crew laugh in between filming to keep spirits up because everyone cried during filming.

You guys are right. This is an actual horror film. The lack of humanity is unbearable.

I remember when this was released, my school made it a point to take us to see it. Imagine a bunch of teenagers on a class trip to the movies, but every single one of us, teachers included , were Silent and in tears . This is something that everyone needs to see. Especially such sensitive people, myself included, because it needs to never be forgotten. Sadly and moreso Disappointedly This Hatred still persists .

Schindler’s List is a cinematic masterpiece that not only educates, but also serves as a powerful reminder of the horrors of the Holocaust. It's ability to evoke empathy, provoke introspection, and inspire change is a testament to the film’s enduring legacy. It is a rare gem that combines artistic brilliance, historical significance, and a profound message of compassion, reminding us of the importance of standing against injustice and preserving the dignity of all humanity.

Ralph and Liam are hands down incredible actors in this film. They are in general but this is perfection To say Ralph was so convincing he terrified the survivors says alot.

At 36:27, you did the most natural thing, you had to cover your eyes. A friend of mine, who is a big tough rugby guy was on the Westminster bridge when a terrorist ploughed into tourists, he found it extremely traumatic but all he could do when it was happening was cover his eyes.... He was also a hero a rushed an injured woman to hospital. This moment just reminds me how human we are.

When real survivors who knew Amon encountered Ralph, dressed in character, they physically shook in terror. He was too convincing, and it brought them back into the horrific moments of their past.

This film is one of the hardest watches for anybody, but it is one of the most important films ever made. Sometimes you need to see the horrors of the past to learn from and grow. An absolute masterpiece and every cast member played their role to perfection.

This movie is so important that all the major networks played it on one night, unedited and in it's entirety without commercials.

"i dont think anything can top the green mile mouse" famous last words

I grew up in Germany and we watched this as a special screening in a cinema, when we were leaning about the third Reich. I somehow made it to the end of the movie without getting physically ill, but two days later whilst writing a report about one of the death camps i came across a list with names and numbers and how they had been killed. I literally broke down. I had recurring nightmares for months afterwards.... The only one who had it worse in my class was a friend of mine who actually came across a picture of his grandfather in SS uniform. I was only a teenager (13 or 14 years old) at that time, but I will never forget what i did learn about the powers of indoctrination, propaganda and hate. It was pretty painful, but I do think it made me a better human with my own personal understanding of right and wrong and that some things just cannot be tolerated. Thank you for your reaction. I am sure you will carry the memories of this movie with you for a long time. I am sure someone else will comment on all the behind the scenes stuff like "it had to be toned down" or "Ralph Fiennes looked so much like Amon Göth, that one of the survivors had a breakdown and he broke character and tried to comfort her " .... Not getting popcorn ready for this one, but getting some tissues and water

It's a hard watch but so important. There are people who still support what the Nazis did. There are people that claim this never happened. We have to remember, and we still have to fight against evil. Love you two.

Ralph fiennes had a partial mental collapse after rhis movie was released. The emotional toll was so heavy it caused him to take a nearly 8 year sabbatical from cinema. As he himself revealed it was caused by people who were so convinced by his portrayal of Amon Goethe that he was receiving a staggering 3000 hate mail letters a day including some with maĺicious intent implied in them

The only movie to put a value on a life "One more person" Still destroys me Spielberg refused to accept a check for the movie, and paid out of his pocket to have them flown to the grave marker. He became so depressed filming it, Robin Williams would call "he is the only man who could make me laugh, 10 feet from a death camp"

I had the privilege of listening to a Holocaust survivors story at my university recently, her name is Esther Basch. It was one of the most emotional experiences of my life, it astounded me that humans are capable of that level of barbarism. It was extremely sobering.

The shower part was the one scene that actually managed to give me a nightmare. No horror movie has ever done that to me. This movie should be an obligatory watch in schools all over the world

You two are such a cute couple. Something I noticed, that every time Hanna cries or gets upset, Ash immediately puts his arm around Hanna. That means that Ash TRULY LOVES YOU Hanna from the deepest recesses of his heart. The two of you should grow old together. . . :)

Spielberg was filming Schindler's List by day and editing Jurassic Park by night. Two masterpieces in one year, and one as gut-wrenching as this. No wonder he took the next 4 years off!

"That little girl's alone. She hasn't even got her mum" - That really got me in the feels 🥲

I want to say this right… what I love about this reaction to Schindlers list is that yourself from and Arab background , wether your realized this or not, breaks the stereotypes that exist about the Arab/Jewish relations… most fellow humans have clear compassion for other humans regardless of race, religion, color, etc… and I love that as a man of Arab heritage clearly breaks that stereotype. Adore your channel and how you and Hannah are together. You two balance each other so well. L❤

From the bottom of my heart, as a Jewish man, thank you for daring to watch this on your channel and for being so vulnerable. We cried together. May G-d bless you and keep you.

Both my grand grand dads survived the war. One was polish and one was Russian. The Russian one was a captain during the war. The Polish one was a fireman. They came to Brazil after the war and settled here. By their stories, it was a lot worse than the movies show. The smell of death was in the air, in their cloths, everywhere.

fun fact, Spielberg was filming Schindler's List during the day and editing Jurassic Park at the night, and he did Jurassic Park only because the studio promised to him if he did it they were give to him the "ok" and the money to do Schindler's List.

Ralph Fiennes played Goeth so well that the actual survivors who were called in as authenticity consultants were terrified of him.

Imagine the impact this film had on people (myself included) watching it in an actual movie theatre at the time of its premiere. I was so deeply shocked that I could not speak for hours...

If there are no tears in your eyes at the Schindler leaving scene then you are not a human being... This scene breaks everyone...

Hannah is a empathetic person, so it's perfectly understandable why she has such a strong reaction to the evil of a man that isn't capable of even a sliver of empathy (Amon Göth).

I just turned 18 when this film came out. It was my first R rated film to see in a theater. At the end, everyone stood up and gave it a standing ovation. It was the first time i saw people clapping in theaters. I will never forget that day and i will never forget this film.

As soon as I saw the movie title, I felt so sorry for poor Hanna! I saw this in theaters when it was first released and it still holds the record for the most tears shed during a movie for me. I have made all of my kids watch it followed by extensive conversation. You were absolutely correct when you said it doesn't even feel like a movie. 😢

I have two little girls. One of whom is the same age as the little girl in the red coat. This movie broke me on so many levels every time I watch it going back to when I was shown it in history class in high school. This video is my favorite reaction to this movie, rivaling the German woman who did a reaction, translated all the German script and was screaming and crying by the end.

The scene that got me was the hospital scene where they gave them a mercy killing instead of the nazis brutally shooting them all down and that look of pride

Fiennes is truly amazing in this. One of the original survivors saw him on set and had PTSD from the site of him, he apparently reminded her of him too much.

This movie is gut wrenching. This is why I get so mad at people casually slinging around the term Nazi in modern political debates because it’s such an insult to the victims and survivors of the Holocaust.

I saw this movie when it came out. Even today it still wrecks me. We as humans can be so cruel to each other. I will never understand how come we can’t all get along. Or just respect each other and live in peace.

I’m polish. I remember watching this movie in middle school. Middle school. We would watch movies like this one as a part of our history classes. This history is so alive in this country, our grandparents or grand grandparents have lived through these times. It’s mad to think about. There’s been a lot of instances of other countries’ politicians calling the camps „polish death camps” and we fight every time to get the record straight that these were NOT polish camps, they were IN POLAND but never have they been made by the polish, they were GERMAN DEATH CAMPS ON POLISH LAND. We were occupied by Germany, and mamy polish people helped and sheltered jewish people, risking their own lives.

The "I couldn't have gotten one more" is the scene that breaks everyone, even the ones that hadn't cried yet

Goeth's granddaughter wrote a book titled 'My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me." (Or something similar to that.) She was German/Nigerian and didn't know who her grandfather was until she was in her late 20s or early 30s. Absolute fascinating.

When this movie came out everyone was so horrified by it But I remember I met with my grandmothers friend who herself was a survivor (she has since passed away) and she told me “They tried, but it looked like Disneyland compared to how bad it really was” It’s an important film - but the true horror can not be sufficiently portrayed

I'm not sure how it is in other countries, but here in the United States, Schindler's List is mandatory viewing for most high school students. My European history class was shown this film near the end of the semester in my senior year. Myself and most of my classmates were 17 at the time. As someone who had already done quite a bit of studying and was very interested in history by that point, I understood what exactly the movie was going to be like and I was prepared for it. The greatness of it being mandatory viewing was that there were a large majority of my classmates who were absolutely unprepared and uneducated about what they were going to be seeing. It had a huge effect on a lot of people because it was the first time that those people were truly confronted with and forced to understand the reality of what happened in the Holocaust. Truly a fantastic film and I genuinely believe everyone should be made to watch it at some point in their lives whether they feel up to it or not. It's too important of a topic to go without truly understanding it.

Of all the reactor channels on RU-vid…this was THE greatest reaction to any movie I’ve seen..thank you both for the journey through this Spielberg masterpiece ✌🏻

One of two movies that I have seen that when people were leaving when it was finished no one made a sound except for crying. The other was "Saving Private Ryan."

"Schindler's List" is Spielberg's masterpiece. Aside from the storytelling, every technical thing that makes up a movie is top tier in this film.

I've endured this movie twice and i still cry with it when I see people react to it. It's so brilliantly directed and acted. Stephen Spielberg and his wife filmed some of this on actual camp locations and he said there were moments during the filming where they just sat down, held each others hands and wept. So intense and respectful at the same time to the survivors.

I am so pleased that you were so open and honest with your reactions. I saw this in the comfort of darkness in a theater filled with people. Had someone been watching me while I saw this, it would have tried to choke back all the tears.

I saw this in the theatre when I was in high school with 3 of my best buddies. We were speechless at the end of it. Even as teens, we knew we had seen something transcendent.

46:53 is an often overlooked detail. Every single one of the Nazi soldiers who were left to "dispose of the camp" were either boys or old men, because by 1945 essentially every prime age man in Germany had died. Hitler literally sent out 15 year old boys to die at that point.

As of May 2020, there are over 11 thousand descendants of the Schindlerjuden. I remember watching this in theaters over Christmas break. (I mean nothing says "Christmas" quite like Schindler's List, y'know?) and I think the entire audience stayed through the end credits, and walked out in complete silence. Spielberg said he wanted to make it feel more real, as if watching a documentary instead of a story. It certainly worked. This is not a movie, it is an experience. It's not as graphic or violent as other movies about WW2, but it's not really about the war, is it? With each act of brutality, it captures the "everyday" horrors that were happening behind the battlefields. Spielberg didn't pull his punches, either. It's raw, it's upsetting and it's extremely difficult to sit through, but I agree with you that it's disrespectful not to. Thank you for watching it. If you think you're even up for it, Spielberg is re-releasing it on Dec 7 to mark the 25th anniversary. (or at least it does in USA). I don't know if it'll be released internationally or not...I assume so... Anyway. This is going to be a long comment because holy fishsticks do I have SOME THOUGHTS.about.....everything... Here we go. After I watched this for the first time, it sparked what turns out to be a lifetime "interest" in the Holocaust and a quest for understanding. I had and still have many questions. I understand the how and the when but not the WHY. I visited the Holocaust museum in Washington DC and that was a whole other layer of WHY. The movie doesn't have as much of an impact when you're watching on youtube or on TV that it does on the big screen. All the brutality is right up in front of your face and you can't get away from it. And THAT doesn't have as much impact that it does when it's LITERALLY in front of your face. It was the piles of shoes and glasses that got me. Each one of those items was owned by a real person. A living, breathing human being who had held these items in their hands, worn day by day by day. Those items had belonged to people who had been murdered for WHY? The museum was hard to get through, too. But I had to. Which eventually led to me standing inside the concentration camp at Dachau. I climbed into the cattle cars, I saw the ovens....and more belongings to people who had died there for WHY? It is our duty as fellow human beings.to bear those people witness. The silent pleas to be acknowledged and remembered made even the air so heavy it was difficult to BREATHE. There were almost 800 people there. All I hear was footsteps. I don't think I'll ever understand the WHY.

The girl in red had to be one of most brilliant things Spielberg ever did, I love how you described it 😢

I watched this movie in history class my freshman year of HS as well and it just stuck to me. It's definitely a masterpiece. You can't help but reflect on it and how great we have it now.

My granddad was 13 when the German army rolled through his town in Torun, Poland. I wouldn't be here today if he hadn't survived and came to live in the UK. It breaks my heart even more that he had to change his surname from Lewandowski to Lawson due to rampant xenophobia. I respect and love you both so much more for sitting through this film, as harrowing as it is. We should never forget.

Goeth was a monster. The “I pardon you” scene showed a little bit of how much of a murderous psychopath he was. Then, add in the “after the war if you need a reference” part showing how much of a disconnected sociopath he was. The scary part is a large part of the character here, despite this aspect being factual, is a symbol for all of the monsters in the SS, and sadly there were many, many, more in line behind him. I honestly don’t know how Spielberg managed to make it through making this one, he had to feel like vomiting all the time.

This movie should be mandatory in every high school history class!

This makes me respect my Great Grandma so much more and the risks she took. She had to house an SS-officer during the occupation (Belgium) in her home; my grandma even being fed by the Nazi-officer, as a baby, while he was there for some time - which in a way humanizes them (Not all German soldiers were blind robots) - but at the same time, she was hiding a Jewish family in the attic, IN THE SAME HOUSE at the SAME TIME. How she managed to keep it a secret from those officers, I have no clue. Unfortunately I never got to meet her (unfortunately so - the stories she could have told...). Her story was like one from the movies, literally.

Thank you guys for watching this movie and letting the world see your humanity in your reactions. It is one of the most valuable things we can do to fight the horrific potential in the nature of man, that still comes out in places around the world to this day, to show the opposite, the greatness of our compassion and empathy that is also possible. Thank you ,You’ve done a mitzvah today.

the two of you have turned into my favorite movie realters! You feel everything so passionately, from funny movies to sad movies and everything in between! Thank you! Anybody that doesn't react the way the two of you did, must be dead inside!

Watching Hannah making herself watch this movie was very moving. What a gutsy lady. Your commentary and your exchanges were really compelling. Thanks both.

I'm with you two a 100%. The ending of this film gets me every time. I cry 3 times everytime I watch this masterpiece.

I don't know who decided to put you through this, but this movie will tear you into pieces. It's so worth watching, but even watching a reaction brings me to tears and leaves me with a headache from the strain. You two are phenomenal.

I had the privilege of meeting Leo Rosner here in Melbourne many years ago. I find this movie SO hard to watch, but I think this movie should be watched by everyone, just like Ash says. I know many Jewish people today whose families were in the Holocaust and it makes me RAGE when I hear people try and deny that this actually happened. I’m 66 years old and whenever I watch the scene where Oscar breaks down and cries that he didn;t do enough, I cry like a baby. He did so much. Of course he couldn’t save everyone, but he did what he could and that’s always enough. I have visited Dachau concentration camp near Munich and spent a day there. I had read about the Holocaust and seen many documentaries, so I thought I would be well prepared for what I would experience going there. I was wrong. There are no words that can do justice to the feeling of standing in a gas chamber, or in front of the crematoria. I couldn’t speak for hours afterward. As hard as it is to watch movies like this, I firmly believce that we must force ourselves to watch them and show them to our children, so that this is NEVER forgotten, because if it ever is forgotten, it may happen again. WE MUST NOT LET THAT COME TO BE!

A few months ago, there were literally videos of people in the middle of the day, middle of a side wall saying, 'Hitler was right'. Because of all the palestinian Israel stuff. We need to re-watch this movie now more than ever.

Theres a ton of great historical moments that aren't included in the film(it was already an epic length movie, so I can understand why), but definitely feel like I should mention some: -Schindler of the movie starts helping the Jews after seeing the girl in the red dress dead. In reality, Schindler planned to save them from the very start. -A train carrying 250 Jews were being transported during the dead of winter in 1945 to another location for imprisonment. 12 had died from the cold and the ones who were left would most likely never work again, given frostbite and health complications brought on by the freezing winter. Schindler bought them all as essential workers and his wife Emilie made a hospital which they were cared for in until the end of the war. Because of this, many of them survived. -Schindler had 3000 women transferred from camps to textile plants to increase their chances of surviving the war. -On one occasion, a family possessing forged identity papers were sought out by the Gestapo, who demanded Schindler hand them over. "Three hours after they walked in," Schindler said, "two drunk Gestapo men reeled out of my office without their prisoners and without the incriminating documents they had demanded." -Schindler(and his wife)were stopped by French Nationals near the border after fleeing the factory. The groups interpreter read the letter the Jews had given in thanks and defence of Schindler and burst into tears. When he translated it to his fellow soldiers, they immediately released the Schindlers. -After the war, Schindler tried to start many businesses, but did not thrive in post WW2. Many Jewish people's donations kept him alive during his final years. Non historical fun facts: Spielberg took absolutely no salary on the movie, believing it would be "Blood money". Robin Williams regularly called Spielberg to cheer him up with comedy routines during the filming. Ralph Fiennes and Liam Neeson became friends during the filming and Fiennes called Neeson to comfort him when his(Neeson's)wife died. Martin Scorsese dropped out of directing this movie because he believed a Jewish director should do it. The daughter of Amon Goeth eventually learned who her father was(she was 2 when he was hanged)and contacted Helen Hirsch, his onetime servant and whipping girl. They made a documentary about it you can find on youtube of their friendship. Things I personally love: I love how Schindler is able to manipulate Goeth. While it doesn't last, him convincing Goeth to stop, at least for a short time, his random slaughter of the prisoners by playing on his sense of superiority is great. And later, when he hoses down the cars out of "giving them false hope"makes Goeth and the rest of the officers laugh...until it doesn't because they can't understand anymore. Stern and Schindler's relationship is really amazing and how the two start from Stern being with him in a very teeth clenched way to them being great friends. Schindler's final speech on how he could have saved one more and how much money he wasted on frivolities and personal luxuries. Such a heartbreaking and amazing bit of acting by Neeson. The fact that the workers all hug him is sweet as hell.

'93 was the most competitive year for supporting actor performances on the big screen: 66th Oscar nominees = Ralph Fiennes (Schindler's List), Tommy Lee Jones (The Fugitive), John Malkovich (In the Line of Fire), Leonardo DiCaprio (What's Eating Gilbert Grape), Pete Postlethwaite (In the Name of the Father). Snubs = Ben Kingsley (Schindler's List), Val Kilmer (Tombstone), Sean Penn (Carlito's Way), certain actors in True Romance, etc... Amon Göth in this film is reportedly tamer than the real one b/c the latter was so monstrous that he came off as almost unbelievable. The modern trend in writing villains is to make their motivations understandable. You'll hear lots of cinema enthusiasts preach that making a one-dimensional antagonist who's just evil for the sake of evil and only cares for money is the wrong way to go. It's almost as if the film is trying to give Amon a character arc regarding power & attraction, as well as attempting to provide answers on why he is the way he is. Only for him to reject that exploration and immediately go back to the pleasure of violence. A reminder that monsters do exist in real life no matter if they're human. On the other end of the spectrum, there's Oskar Schindler's complexity. We sense that he's changing throughout the story, but it's never made explicit just how much prior to him actually making the list. For he has to be subtle about how he does things in the world that he's operating in.

"One more person." You can feel the emotion from it in your heart and his reaction after dropping the ring as he scurries to pick it up like he's dropped the most precious thing is absolutely beautiful. So much said with absolutely no words. I personally think Liam Neeson should have been the one to get the Oscar. Also, some films aren't what you'd call entertaining, but they are important. This is one of those films and everyone should see it.

I call this one of the greatest movies that most people only watch once. It is art that can truly break you.

We watched this in college, and the teacher asked what everyone thought what the red coat being in actual color meant. I said it represented all the blood shed. Everyone looked at me like they couldnt believe what i just said.

Winner of 7 Oscars including Best Picture. The most powerful and most important motion picture of all time.

This is a movie that you never wanna watch, but it needs to be watched. I tend to watch this movie at least once a year. It's a reminder to always be kind to everyone. Edit: I feel so much for Hannah. It's a tough movie to watch. No need to apologize Hannah, this is a movie that doesn't need a lot of reaction in terms of speaking. Tears do all the reaction.

I know this was from 7 months ago, but this is my third time watching this. I've been a subscriber for a while and watch EVERY video both on your and Hannah's channel, but for you to tackle a movie this heavy is very unique and that why it brings me back bc it's such a beautiful movie and such a raw reaction. I truly love you guys. Now PLEASE, for ALL of us, react to the harry potter return to hogwarts reunion video. It will be GOLD and I can't believe you haven't with how much you love Harry Potter

_"Please, Lord. Help me get one more."_ ~Desmond Doss _"I could have gotten one more person."_ ~Oskar Schindler That one more. A truly good hero always thinks of that *_One More._*

I've met holocaust survivors who bore the tattoos given to them by the Nazi regime. Any time someone brought up the Holocaust around them they immediate have a thousand yard stare and you can see in those moments that they're reliving this hell all over again, despite decades having past. It's a film that I rarely rewatch but when I do it never ever gets easier. Truly a masterpiece of cinema.

This film is such a hard watch, but it's also an incredibly important watch. Everyone in the world should watch this film at least once.

Thank you!!! You validated my feelings at the 14:30 mark. Of all the carnage and death we see during this film, it was the execution of the woman engineer that disturbed me and haunted me for YEARS after I saw this movie for the first time. He ordered that execution as though he was ordering a sandwich. That action alone told you of not only how evil he was, but how intense his hatred was. And yes, he was way more evil and vile then the movie showed him. Spielberg wisely knew it would be TOO much for an audience to take. The only "humorous" side note to this film is the fact that Spielberg had to literally DRAG Emilie Schindler to the Oskar's grave at the end of the film. She was the most vocal critic of the movie calling it "a complete lie" in how Schindler was portrayed. Yes, she was THAT bitter towards him to her dying day. I think that is why the scriptwriter wisely never told us Oskar Schindler's motive for doing what he did (did he REALLY save them because it was the right thing to do, or did he do it to save his own ass knowing they would turn on him when given the opportunity?). If this movie weren't so damn emotional and draining, I would watch it more times then I have (only 4 times in 30 years). Great job.

Heres how powerful the film making was. The woman and her mother i knew went and saw it and were crying again while describing it. As a cinematography fan i pointed out what a bold choice it was for Spielberg to use black and white. Black and white is much more difficult to set up shots in. Every light has to be perfect or you get shadowing.. much more difficult than filming in color..they stared at me and said "what?!?".. they blinked.. and all of a sudden i got it.. they were so engrossed by the story that they had ZERO idea that they had just watched a black and white movie.. think about that

I was shown this movie when I was 11 in elementary and my teacher brought in a holocaust survivor. I still remember her story to this day. It was burnt into my brain. It was insane

I cry so many times whenever I watch this movie, but there's something about Schindler telling the Rabbi to prepare for the Sabbath that makes me absolutely weep. It's one of the most beautiful moments of any movie I've ever seen. That scene with Schindler saying he could've saved more is up there too, of course.

It took me 5 times to watch this movie till the end. The reactions of the girl in this video are genuine, she's so courageous to have watched until the end 🫶

Thank you for this! A powerful reaction to a powerful film. Liam Neeson actually wanted to quite the film after the first days of filming because he was upset with the directing and thought Spielberg was micro-managing his every move too much and he had no freedom as an actor. He complained to Ben Kingsley (Izak) but he managed to convince him to stay on the project understanding how important of a film it will become.

You guys should add “ The Pianist “ to your list; another world war 2 great movie and also a true story ❣️