SCHINDLER'S LIST and Developing Compassion with guest Kels Goodman 

What I like about this movie is that Schindler is not a perfect hero. He's an asshole, he cheats on his wife and he's selfish, you don't admire him at the beginning and at certain points, you'll think he's a coward. But then, he starts making right choices. It's small at first, but he as it gets harder to do the right thing, he starts listening more and more to his conscience and it builds up to where he really has to put himself in danger and he still perseveres. He's not perfect, he's still an asshole and a cheater and that makes it easier to relate. He's flawed, human and he did a noble, kind thing. So can we.

That "one more person" scene, hits right through your heart. It never gets old and still makes me cry.

The scene at the end where’s he’s talking about what else he could have sold so he could have saved more Jews is actually really heartbreaking.

I feel like I need to say that after all these warnings and stuff that gives you a chance not to watch if it makes you uncomfortable... My history teacher in school showed the class this movie as part of learning about WW2, we were 13/14 at the time and I'm so glad he did. It is GOOD for people to be uncomfortable, you're not meant to be comfortable with this. You only truly learn from history if you yourself see the horror of it and understand why it should never happen again.

I remember in middle school, we had to watch both this film and the devil's arithmetic. My history teacher said to us, “this is the reality of what happened. I’m not gonna sugarcoat this. You need to know this so we can prevent something like this happening again.” I remember crying at my desk after both of the films ended. I was 11 years old and I couldn’t believe something like this actually happened and how all those people died so horribly. My classmates bullied me for a month for crying at a movie but I don’t think they fully understood the impact of the films had on me. I wasn’t crying at a film, I was crying for the victims.

The thing with Fiennes portrayal of Goeth is that the humanizing aspects make him scarier. A cartoon Nazi is a cartoon. They're laughable. They're un-serious. You can dismiss them as a work of fiction. The way he is played in Schindler's List shows that, no, he's not a cartoon, he's not a work of fiction. He's a man. A real flesh a blood person who committed these appalling, unbelievably cruel acts. It really drives home that this kind of thing can happen because people like this ARE real. That's a lot scarier than a mustache twirling boogeyman.

Funny how just these few glimpses of the movie were enough to get me sobbing.

When I was a teenager a geography teacher was discussing the Holocaust and at the end of the class he showed us a compilation of real videos from the Holocaust. When the video ended the professor dismissed the class and all 40 teenagers grabbed their things and left the class in complete silence. Even the lousy annoying ones. That's how impactful it was.

You mentioned dehumanization and the way that affects our capacity for empathy or compassion for others, but I think there's something to be said about how desensitizing yourself to traumatic stimulus can influence that as well. I think of myself as sympathetic and supportive to Jewish folks, and believe I don't have active hate in my heart, but I have come to realize recently that there was a period of time in my youth where I was being groomed to be anti-Semitic. This despite the fact that one of the most influential figures in my life was my 6th grade teacher, a Jewish lesbian, who I adored then and still hold in my heart with fondness today. I first saw this movie in high school, and I was so proud of the fact that I was emotionally apathetic to the atrocities displayed in the film, that I was one of few students who didn't cry even once. Similarly, when my uncle came back from Iraq and showed us photos he had taken, he warned us that some were gruesome, and I managed to observe them unaffected, while several of my family excused themselves because of the triggering content. I thought that my desensitization was some kind of mark of strength or pride, that I had a higher constitution to deal with traumatic experiences, and I boasted about that constantly. At some point along the way, I had learned to remove my empathy and instead actively engaged with content that reflected harm, in an effort to "beat it" I suppose. To see something terrible and feel nothing about it meant that I "won" and wasn't "weak." My turning point was when my friend group confronted me about a person I considered a friend who was a confirmed neo-nazi, and I had had no clue. I was disgusted and horrified that I made a person like that feel safe with me, but in hindsight, I had given all the indication that I might've been the same. That shame follows me still nearly twenty years later, and it's been a long road to rewiring the thought patterns so that they don't default to those harmful foundations. Some days the wiring fails, and I get frustrated because that's not how I want to operate. In a morbidly funny way, I cry at almost everything now. I suspect the desensitization didn't work as well as I thought it did, and was probably just traumatizing myself and bottling it until I became a quasi-functional adult. lol {Edited for clarity, spaced for readability)

I love that line: “I could have done more” “You’ve already done so much” They’re both right. We can always do more but we should not lose sight of the good we already do.

I honestly think Schindler's List is THE most important movie you can and should watch. No teenagers should have gone through school without watching this movie. I don't know how it is in the US, but here in Europe we get this was and the atrocities with it drilled into our brains, and this movie is a good way of doing so.

Nice touch that there wasn't any popcorn in this video. Just shows how serious this topic is and that it's not a movie you watch for entertainment purposes only.

The first time I saw this movie was in 8th grade. I remember most of our class laughed that we had to bring singed permission slips from our parents for that day. Having grown up at a place in Germany where national socialism to this day is almost glorified, that first viewing with a group of teenagers giggling and groaning throughout much of the movie flew by me. I was much more horrified by my classmates reaction to it than watching a movie I already had a hard time connecting to reality. It made me start asking questions. And maybe that is what it can do for people like me. It made me ask who the people that raised me were before I knew them as my slightly cooky grandparents. It made me realize at what price the life And comfort I knew came. For the last 15 years I have watched that movie once every year to remind myself to be a better human being. To fight for people’s lives and happiness as a nurse and as that stranger who didn’t walk by. Watching that movie changed a lot for my family and I dearly hope it had the same effect on many others in the world.

Had to comment to say Ralph is pronounced “Raafe”. My favourite trivia about this film is about the soundtrack. 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."

That last scene when Schindler starts to cry, "I didn't do enough," gets me every time.

Henry Ford and Adolf Hitler were mutual admirers of each other, to the point where Ford was given Germany's Grand Cross of the German Eagle, which I imagine is equal to the United States' Presidental Medal of Freedom. It is the highest-ranking medal Germany gives to foreigners, at any rate. Ford had also expressed anti-Semitic views, and as a way to acknowledge and atone for their founder's actions, the Ford Motor Company would sponsor a commercial-free run of Schindler's List.

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Another movie that has touched me on the same level as Schindler's List, is 'La Vita é Bella' (Life is Beautiful), an Italian film who follows the perspective of a jew in the 2nd world war, and how he tries to protect his son from the atrocities of the war and the labor camp. If you haven't seen it it is one really worth watching.

HOO MAMA...I've only seen this movie once and I'm not being hyperbolic when I say my stomach churned so much that I nearly vomited. This is beyond most Holocaust based films in terms of it's pulling no punches, and I still haven't recovered from that first viewing and that was 4 or 5 years ago....and I can take a lot. Hopefully one day I'll be able to stomach it again, but all that said, of course it's one of the best films ever created and arguably Neeson's finest performance. Many people on this earth still need an education on what dehumanizing rhetoric sounds like because this pattern continues onward and it makes my justice loving heart angry/weep/distressed/all the synonyms thereof.

My great uncle died in a deathcamp in Germany for providing help to Jewish people, he was only 21 years old when he died. I think about that sometimes when I think that I have a problem in my life or when I don't have the courage to do something for somebody else

I strongly agree with the "feeling", that Alan observed during his visit in Auschwitz. I was there something about 8 years ago, as a teen. There is something like deafening silence, the air was unearthly in some way and the sheer scale of it. Barbed wire seemed to loop the horizon. It leaves a mark in your consciousness about human nature.

I now understand my grandpa’s anger at his brothers’ apathy when he fled Slovenia. The last of the nazis were rounding up people from the surrounding areas for one last chance to turn the tables... he was young, about 19 I think? He fled, he was thrown in jail twice I think but escaped both times and hopped on a boat to come to Canada. He never went back to Slovenia. He did see his family again through video calls, but he never went back. Before I thought he seemed quite stubborn, but after reading people’s stories and your comments on the movie I understand why he was so angry that his brothers stayed. (And he’s from a family that had 7 children, so we’re talking about a lot of brothers). In his eyes, this was the best thing he could do and the others didn’t care enough to leave (if they stayed and fought back they’d have been thrown in jail and who knows what else, there were bullet holes in the houses from that time period when I went to visit. They were essentially making the choice to go with the nazis if they showed up). My grandpa died last year, he had a hard life but I appreciate his decision to leave so much more now because of this video.

As a kid I liked imagining being a hero and saving people and being cheered and proud of myself but as an adult I started to believe that a REAL genuine hero doesn’t say: “I saved a lot.” A real genuine hero would say: “I could’ve saved more.”

I’ve never seen this movie but that scene where he’s upset about losing even one person really got to me 😢

A wise man once said: It's not our abilities that define us, it's our choices. That quote perfectly describes Oscar Schindler: An asshole who made the right call, and generations are thankful to him for those choices. edit: Thx @Jenn V for the correction

when jonathan talked about hindu community having their stories even for a second, i genuinely felt touched, it feels like we're such an overlooked community regards to what our history and culture is and was, since we are talking about the holocaust right now, not many people know that during the bengal famines created by britishers millions of people starved and died in more numbers. its just we have our stories and we would love to tell the world about it.

I had a history teacher show us clips from this movie in high school, and I still haven't recovered from those few scenes. It's hard to face the atrocities humanity is capable of, but it's more important to realize we're all human and we all deserve kindness.

Ralph Fiennes gave a great interview in which he discussed how he got through playing a monstrous figure like Amon Goeth. He said he focused on him as a bureaucrat like Eichman, a guy worried about meeting his quotas assigned by his superiors (like how much barbed wire he has to order), etc - how many new workers he needs to accommodate etc. He said it was the only way he could endure it.

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This movie RUINED me. Some of those scenes were so shocking that I didn't even cry or react cause it was too much. But when the end came with Oscar saying how he could have done better and saved more ALL my emotions broke out and I couldn't stop for several minutes. One of the hardest movies I've ever seen but a very important one...and I'll probably never see it again as well.

Ok can you guys believe that the studio wanted this movie to be in color? It's like shooting 2001 a space oddyssey without vfx I can't imagine this movie without it.

I am german and my parents watched this movie with me and my siblings when i was about 12. It was really not a fun evening, but my parents skipped the most violent scenes and we made breaks so they could explain things to us. It gave me a lot to think about, but i am really glad my parents did this with us. It's important to remember and be aware of history, even if it is uncomfortable.

All seriousness though. I have never actually seen this movie. I've seen videos like this where people talk about it and all that but I have never seen it. I will never see it because I know how I will react. I am not Jewish, my family is not Jewish (as far as I know), but I went to the holocaust museum in DC once when I was a kid and could not stay for the whole thing because I was just crying. I can't handle how humans could do that to other human beings. I know Hitler and the Germans did not see the people they did all that to as people but they were, they were human beings. If you see somebody as not a person just because they look different, believe different, speak different, then it makes it easy to justify doing horrible things to them. But we are all human beings.

Watching this again still feels like a punch to the gut. A lot of people I knew in my life lived during the Holocaust (my grandfather on my dad's side lost his entire family there when he was three, the one from my mom's side had to live there pretending to be a German because of his blue eyes and blonde hair, even using Adolf as an alias, and my mom's teacher went through enough trauma there that seeing two students shaving their heads for a bet caused her to kick them out of class). The fact there are horrible, HORRIBLE people out there who deny this ever existed makes my blood boil and my throat choke with tears. This genocide was real, the suffering there was real and it still goes on decades later. It's an ugly reminder that all people are equal, but to some they are less equal than others.

I'm Jewish, and this movie is extremely hard to watch. To me, when I first watched it, I couldn't connect what I saw in the movie with reality or with my family's past, I couldn't believe that this was something that actually happened, even though I knew it wasn't fiction. Maybe because I grew up seeing so much violence in movies, I just thought that it had been exagerated for "the sake of entretaintment", like many movies that deal with important topics are. Now, it's become harder and harder to sit through it, the crying is constant and I take many breaks to clear my head, but I think that it's a movie that everybody should watch. Sadly, I couldn't bring myself to watch your video, but I will when I'm ready (still streaming it tho). Thank you for your amazing content, been a fan for a while now, continue with your excellent work!! Love from Argentina.

This is going to be a good one. Unfortunately I won’t make the premiere for it.

I've got a suggestion of a movie! Finding Nemo! You've got Marlin who clearly suffers from some sort of PTSD after his wife and all but one of his kids get killed and is way too overly protective of Nemo. There have been some videos I've watched where they suggest that once Nemo is captured, Marlin goes through the 5 stages of grief

Hey Alan - I know this is kinda meaningless coming from an internet stranger, but just wanted to say I hope you’re doing ok after that and with...you know...what’s going on. I can’t imagine what it’s like to have relatives who lived through it. I lived in Israel when I was 14 and learned about the Holocaust while in school there. Most of my friends, who were Israeli, had family who’d been in the camps or fled. I went home that day after school and spent hours researching and crying quietly on my computer. I’ve never been able to watch this movie - just seeing the pictures and hearing my friend’s stories was enough. I don’t know how to end this, so just saying wishing you well from Washington

God. That scene where he cries over all the people he couldn't save always breaks me. It's an amazing way to show his growth - he's sobbing his heart out because the ring on his finger could have saved ONE more life. He's done so much good, but he's not basking in it; he's heartbroken that he couldn't do MORE.

"If we want to retain our integrity, we can't sit it out." What a quote. I became an activist two years ago out of the same sentiment. It's hard as hell sometimes, but I am surrounded by good people and feel like I'm living more sincerely than I ever could otherwise. Growing up in Germany, I'm in my early 20s now; we get in touch with topics like these comparatively early which probably also helps to not just turn toward an ideology of hate or supremacy as the "easy way out" of dealing with the often horrible truth. I know how hard it is to sort of burst the protected and priviledged bubble most of us were socialized into by default in western society- more so for people who are even older than me. Cognitive dissonance is very prevalent, and probably only human. And yet, I believe helping people and taking responsibility is our duty as human beings. Unfortunately, in a world that is threatened and already affected by catastrophic climate change, postcolonial exploitation, division, war, famine, extreme poverty and so much more, where everything is so integrally connected and globally intertwined, the choice of apathy is the choice of complicity. It is a burden, but if we are more people to bear it, we might make it work together.

I know its been recorded already but hope you both were ok as you watched. Hotel Rwanda hit me as hard if not harder on the same theme. I would be interested if you would be up for doing it as a companion piece.

There is actually a book written about the girl in the thumbnail for those who are interested. It's called "The Girl in the Red Coat". Hard to read but also like this movie a very valuable piece.

Hey guys, I was wondering if you could make a Vid on "The King's Speech" and how childhood trauma and overly strict parenting may lead to a persistent stammer in adulthood? Great content as always and love from Germany :)

Couldn't get through this without tears. The end, where he's just ripping himself for not doing more just ruins me. I remember watching this when I was little. They actually aired it on Fox with no commercials and a brief intermission.

wow, I knew I liked your channel but I am now literally waiting patiently 2 hours in advance!!!

Schindler’s List is one of those movies that everyone needs to see - but very few will ever see more than once. Everyone needs to see it because of how powerful it is - but that’s also why most can’t handle watching it more than once. Thankfully, one time is usually enough for the lessons of the movie to stay with you forever.

This movie has had a big impact on me as we watched this in school right after visiting birkenau and auschwitz and saw many of the settings irl... at least here in germany many more should be required to watch this peace of art as a reminder what can never happen again... the spreading of hate and the loss of a country wih any foundation in human dignity

RU-vid is advertising "Robin Hood: Men in Tights" on this video for me

I watch Schindler's List for the first time in 2021. I had just been to the exhibit "Auschwitz: Not long ago. Not far away." We spent five hours in the exhibit listening to the audio tour and going through all the pieces of history that had been brought to America from Poland. We finished and my sister and I watched this movie when we got home, and I was awed to finally witness it. I'll also say the "guest" book for the exhibit was incredibly moving, too. I got to see Itzhak Perlman play the Theme from Schindler's List live a few years ago as well, and it was just shattering beauty in the silence of the concert hall.

One day you'll get to do "Eternal Shine of the Spotless Mind", right? It's kinda the perfect "there's no instant magical way to get over your painful experiences" movie for you to comment on.

We watched this movie in 9th grade and I still remember just how sad and sick i felt during the whole viewing. I'm so thankful that we got the chance to watch it.

"I could have got one more" Damn that scene hits so hard.

I am grateful you covered this film. It's important to talk about these things despite the difficult emotions that they bring up. This reminds me how incredibly grateful I am for my mother who, despite a learning disability that led to her dropping out before high school, supplemented our education with information when she thought our small country school wasn't covering important topics well enough. Through her desire to make us compassionate and thoughtful she shared movies and read books to us that were hard but told us about the humans that lived through this history. The history was no longer dates on a page, or wars that we were far removed from, it was filled with people like us, like our neighbors, like the strangers we saw in the street. It made us ask questions in class and dig deeper, which didn't always make us popular but i wouldn't have it any other way. She showed us this film and Life is Beautiful, she read books like The Hiding Place and Night to us, she taught us about Japanese internment camps in the US (which was a topic our history teacher refused to talk about). When we asked questions she truly answered. She helped us understand our emotions about these horrifying acts. Thanks, mom.

A film suggestion: the green mile. Not sure what link to therapy it has but I am guaranteed to cry by the end of it, not matter how many times I see it.

the scene that really effects me is the mothers running to their children on the trucks, their realization of the situation and the contrast of the kids excitement just to see them. it is the most horrific and ominous scene i’ve seen.

My mother had very strict upbringing and refused to let us see movies in theaters (something about buying a ticket was supporting all the movies that were shown there and some theaters used to have porn films shown in a back area. Or something). But my junior year in high school our school received tickets to go see this movie as part of our world history class and dad thought it was important. So the first movie I ever saw in a theater on a big screen, the first movie I ever saw that wasn't edited for television, was Schindler's List.

Oh my, am I gonna cry again today?

I know this is a movie channel and that y’all had a guest. But the Oscar winning John Williams score is such a vital storytelling method in this movie in addition to the cinematography and writing.

There are so many lines, like "one more person", but I also smiled with Schindler when he said "the day that one of my shells fire is the day we failed "

I was in high school when it came out, and our history teacher had every class go to the theater one day and watch the movie. We had to get parental consent forms, of course. Such a powerful movie. Also, Itzhak Pearlman’s violin playing in the score is perfect!

This is going to be heavier than I am after 3 confinements in France

I'm actually just crying so much with this, can't imagine what'll be like when I watch this movie. I cry for my country, I cry for all my people, and I cry (and pray) for the world. Thanks and kisses from Brazil.

Spielberg is a genius. This movie was such a masterpiece. I can't think of one flaw about it, everything in the way it was produced made it so real and so gut wrenching

“One of the biggest instigators of change is interacting with people who are different than you and seeing that common humanity and feeling that ‘Oh! This person that i hated is still just a person.’” This idea is so important and it’s a core belief i’ve held for years. We fear and distrust what we don’t understand and that makes it so easy to other and demonize people. This is how islamophobia and ever other form of racism happens, it’s discrimination against gay and trans people, it’s ignoring issues rooted in systemic poverty, it’s ableism that makes you not even considering basic physical accommodations- Really it’s anything that has us looking at another human being and has us think that they are somehow lesser. And it’s wrong. And the only way to fix it is to widen your perspective through experience and allow yourself to be open to seeing the Other as being just as human and deserving as you are.

I loved this show and I can't wait for this video. Someone else recommended Hotel Rwanda which is another good story to learn about.

My mother let me watch this movie when I was quite young, over twenty years ago now. I've never watched it again, but I always remember two scenes vividly: the little girl in the red coat walking down the street while people are gunned down around her, and Schindler's breakdown at the end. And wouldn't you know it, they showed both scenes. They hit just as hard now as they did then.

I always cry with the little girl in the red coat. Gets me every time

I am thorn between dread and anticipation on this one. I love this movie, it had such a big impact on me but hearing the music is enough to make me tear up. Kudos that you decided on this beautiful, heartwrenching masterpiece.

Had a friend commit suicide on Saturday. I can’t say that my pain is in any way the same as the pain of this kind of atrocity but it was somewhat cathartic watch you guys talk about such a deep topic in such a strong and definite way. Thanks for being there with some really good content, I literally tell everyone to watch you guys and that’s never been something I do.

Could you guys analyse the boy in the striped pyjamas? Pleeeease please please, it's my favourite movie tackling this topic. I live in Austria and when it came out we went to watch it in cinema instead of having class in school and when we walked out we were all BAWLING. Every single person and we went with two classes, so 65 kids were touched to bits by it. I've recently rewatched it with my boyfriend and it still makes me cry hysterically at the end... it's such a powerful piece of art and I'm horrified about people being capable of doing these things to others, but seeing how children treat each other as equals without their mind being clouded by the "education" back then.

To this day, Schindler's List is the only film that is shown on German TV without commercials inbetween. In school, we start dealing with WW2 in 5th grade when we are about 10 years old and every year the pictures shown to the students get rougher. I saw the movie once and I am on the same page as Alan about the feelings he had watching it. Thanks for making a video about it the way you did.

Amon Göth is reportedly tamer in this film 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 relatable. You'll hear lots of film enthusiasts preach that making a one-dimensional antagonist who's just evil for the sake of hatred and only wants to get rich is the wrong way to go. It's almost as if the script 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.

Oh the scene with him contemplating how he could have gotten 2 more people with the ring gets me sobbing every single time I see it. Powerful subject, excellent acting and masterful direction. Not a film you can watch multiple times but one that resonates and sticks with you.

The “Will It Blend?” clip is the Twilight episode. 😂 I mean, ofcourse it is!

Kels looks like he’d be the middle part of the Venn diagram between Jonathan and allan

Cant we talk about how Alan is bearely in the discussionen because familyhistory and you just feel for the guy when he shoch up. Love man! ♥️

I've watched this movie several times, and I will continue to watch it several more times. It's not like I feel nothing or I see it as "entertainment", I feel the same feelings with every viewing that I felt with the first viewing. I love it to death and I firmly believe that everyone should watch it at least once. To say that this is an important movie is an understatement.

Still that movie quote i cant say without a quivering in my voice: "I could've save more" Seen the movie multiple times, i like to watch this movie, not because its fun, because it shows what war is and what dehumanization creates.

Jonathan talks about the "I just can't" trap at 9:47. I think we often turn a blind eye to suffering because of fear that it will overwhelm us. There's so much need in the world that we could give everything we have and it would never be enough (21:00). We protect ourselves from being swallowed up by misery and need by remaining willfully ignorant and distant. But it's a classic (moral) fallacy of excluded middle. The way out of the trap is to recognize that while (a) it's true: you can never do "enough" to eradicate all suffering, (b) you can usually do something, even if it's small, and that something will make all the difference to someone. Or more succinctly: 21:56.

My grandma (nagymama) was in a refugee camp in Germany after feeling from Hungary at around the age of 7. She told me a story of being hearded into an area with everyone else at the camp. Much like the scene in the film, all the adults thought they were going to get gassed but instead it was a shower. My grandma says that she was just concerned she was naked around strangers. She has a way of telling stories from that time in her life like punchlines of a joke. I'm always amazed by her resilience.

I've only seen this movie once, years ago in high school history class. One of the less talked about moments that sticks with me the most is the simple "This is gold" line, which we see at 19:34 in the video. The idea that he was evaluating all the ways he could have saved even more people and kicking and blaming himself for it really stuck out to me, but man, I forgot about the breakdown he had after it. That nearly got me crying almost instantly.

They had us watch this in either Social Studies class, or English class. I can't remember which, but I couldn't have been more than 14 years old when I first saw it. Amazing, intricate, and heart-wrenching movie.

Saw this film when I was around ten... the whole thing was and is fuzzy in my head... but the ring scene never went away. That and the soundtrack. The moment the movie ended I started choreographing for the song, a dance based on the events of the film and on what feelings the score invoked in me (ballet since 3, and dreamed of being a choreographer since 6. It wasn't suprising behavior for me but it was the first time I full heartedly dedicated myself to a piece). I'm so glad I saw this movie, in a history awareness sense and in a artistic milestone sense... but I often wonder if I was too young to be exposed to it... Well, I read Agatha Christie since around 8, so you can see that the people around me wanted me to grow up in lightning speed, but oh did I pay the price for it... Sry for the rant

What I really adore about this film is that it has one of the best character arcs I've ever seen. You were in correct, he didn't change all at once. It was a gradual shift from indifference, to slight irritation, to upset, to helping a little, to saving hundreds of people's lives. Not to mention- I personally think the way it was shot was positively gorgeous.

the first movie I saw, where at the end -the whole audience sat in complete silence; nobody moved during the credits...

Just watching clips and I'm getting a little teary eyed. Liam Neeson SLAYED this role.

I actually watched this as a sophomore in high school. Also, Spielberg dropped out if college to make movies. He went back to film school and this was his student film.

This is the first time I've watched clips from this movie since the one and only time I watched it in high school 15+ years ago. It's been burned in my memory ever since. So I definitely feel what Alan said about it being one of the best movies you only see once...maybe twice.

I've watched it only once when I started to discover great films and now I'm crying just from the sniplets in this video. The point that struck me was "one more person" you can save (as many other films duplicate) it makes the act of helping a more achievable. May be it's time for another rewatch.

I love the opening bit about Alan. Not the fact that he has a delicate history on the subject matter, but I can relate to him really well! My grandfather is a Holocaust survivor and lost his entire family (at the age of seven) with the exception of his mother and an aunt.

I have never seen Schindler’s List. Honestly you showed some clips and I’m nearly sobbing. The first time I was introduced to the Holocaust, I was 11 and in the 5th grade and it was for our reading class. My teacher had us read one of my favorite books, The Devil’s Arithmetic, and even though it’s a historical fantasy, it’s stuck with me ever since. It also brought me closer with my dad. We aren’t Jewish, but my dad was adopted by one of his step father’s who was. My dad changed him name from Christian to Samual and he still has his kippah from his Bar Mitzvah and he would tell me stories about his adoptive grandfather who was a Holocaust survivor. He even let me bring his keepsakes from his Bar Mitzvah to school with me. And that’s what really invested me in learning more about the Holocaust and Judaism because no one in my class was familiar with Judaism and I hadn’t even realize how much of it actually gave me my name and life I have today until that point. So I study it because I feel like I need to understand as much as I can about the horror and small miracles one individual had to face to keep their name alive for their future generations, and honor those who were unable to do so.

The first time I remember seeing this film I was 15/16 in my history class, my (now retired) history teacher offered 150 pts extra credit to answer questions about this movie and made an annual movie night at 7 on a Friday where the entire classroom was filled with couches and beanbags and we all sat and watched. We took a break halfway through the movie after the ghetto scene and I remember watching 60 kids, all sophomores and juniors, leave the room crying, gasping for air completely floored over everything that happened. It’s one thing to read about history, it’s another to see it before your eyes. Both years that I was able to go I remember staying an hour after the showing helping him put desks back in place, completely shaken by this movie and silently crying over the lives lost. He never asked, he just waited and listened. I am forever grateful to my teacher for showing us all this movie and will show it to my kids someday.

I think the dehumanizing topic is one a lot of people in America need to here right now. Not just those on the right but also those on the left. We seem to see those whose beliefs are not our own as some sort of monsters when we need to see them as people. People who have feelings and reasons behind their beliefs, and we all need to try and understand one another before we throw punches

Wow plot twist: its Kels Goodmans theatre room, the show hosts are the real guests!

I am actually from Germany and the Shoah, the 2. World war ... was always a big topic in school. When I first saw this movie I was maybe 15 and it made me realize that 6 million isn't just a number but 6 million lifes were ended. Thank you for talking about this movie! It's so important!

I remember being young when I saw this movie for the first time. My mother had seen it in the theater and we used to have movie nights at home. When it came to VHS my mother brought it home from Blockbuster one night and said "This isn't our usual type move move but you need to watch it". She rarely made such importance on such things. I don't think I truly understood what I was seeing at the time but it still sticks with me. I watched again once in my 20's and cried like a baby. The girl in the red coat gets me every time.

Thanks for sharing this with us guys. Big thanks (and hugs) for Alan!

This is one of the most amazing movies ever made. I saw this at like 14 years old and it was a turning point for me

Like many of us, I watched Schindler's List for the first time in history class at secondary school. I was of course horrified that this could be real and I grew more and more emotional numb as the film went on, but what got me then and got me again now watching this episode was when Schindler broke down saying " I could have saved more...". It just broke me, I ugly cried into my blazer then and I ugly cried now. He meant the world to those he saved.

I find it interesting that so many people watched this movie and find it hard to ever watch it a second time. Meanwhile, if I have the choice to watch it, I do. Granted I don't grab popcorn and enjoy anything about it (aside from the genius structure). Each and every time, it sends me to tears. I know this movie by heart and it never does get easier to watch. I think the reason I watch it so much though is probably for the same reason I watch true crime shows: I want to know what is the worst case scenario in reality, and spot the steps that lead there so that I can catch where to avoid them or make them known when it happens.