Schindler's List
/ˌʃɪndləz ˈlɪst/
/ˌʃɪndlərz ˈlɪst/
- a US film (1993), directed by Stephen Spielberg, which won seven Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Director. It was based on the novel Schindler's Ark (1982) by the Australian writer Thomas Keneally, which won the Booker Prize. The story is about a real person, Oskar Schindler, a German who risked his own life during the Second World War to save Polish Jews sent to work in his factory.