Top 6 World War II movies ever made
- By Wei Jia
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"Schindler’s List"
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Schindler’s List will always be near the top of any credible list of the best World War II movies ever made. During its 196 mins running time, the film never flinches from the atrocities committed by the Nazis against the Jewish people under their subjugation and exposes their twisted ideology in all its unthinkable savagery. Shooting this masterpiece in black and white, director Steven Spielberg approached his project with an impassioned detachment that put detailed depiction of facts above sentimental comments.
In the first part of the movie, Oskar Schindler, a German businessman in Poland and the protagonist of the film, takes advantage of unpaid Jewish laborers without qualms. Indulging in the high life while fraternizing with German officers, Schindler is a suave operator concerned only with profit. As he witnesses what happens to his Jewish employees, however, he gradually experiences a change of heart that brings out the conscientious part of this hedonist experienced in wheeling and dealing.
Through cunning and courage, Schindler succeeds in saving more than 1,200 Jews by hiring them to work in his factory.
Secretly and efficiently rebelling against a whole regime bent on sending innocent people to mass graves, Oskar Schindler was only one of many who assisted Jews during the Holocaust. Without firing a single shot, he dealt a body blow to Nazi ideology perhaps more devastating than a full army: If a man like Schindler was willing to give up all his possessions and risk his life to save the lives of those his fatherland wanted to annihilate, then the Nazis’ days could have been nothing else but numbered.
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