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Schindler's List is a 1993 movie based on the book Schindler's Ark by Thomas Keneally (the book was later renamed Schindler's List as well). The movie, adapted by Steven Zaillian and directed by Steven Spielberg, relates the tale of Oskar Schindler, a German entrepreneur who was instrumental in saving the lives of over one thousand Polish Jews during the Holocaust. The title refers to a list of the names of 1,200 Jews whom Schindler hired to work in his factory and kept from being sent to the concentration camps.

The majority of the movie is filmed in black and white, with the final Coda and "Girl in Red" scenes as exceptions.

Schindler's List has been acclaimed as one of the most critically successful movies of the 1990s, winning seven Academy Awards (Best Picture and Best Director among those wins). In 1997, it aired on the NBC network, unedited and uncensored, to much controversy.