The second movie I watched about ww2 was Shindler's List. This movie takes place in Nazi controlled Poland and is based off true events. Oskar Shindler, a German businessman, sees a great business opportunity from the Nazi's rising to power. He decides to start up a factory that makes cookware and uses unpaid jewish labor to get the job done, saving huge amounts of money. Eventually, he begins to see the bigger picture. Instead of caring about money, Oskar begins to care for the Jewish people. He in turn keeps asking for more and more jewish workers as the film progresses just to save them from certain death in forced labor camps. By the end of the war Shindler has lost his entire fortune, but managed to save 1,100 Jews from Nazi death camps.
This is a very emotional movie to watch because you experience some of the horrors that the Nazi anti-semitism brought on. I personally enjoy it because of it's strong message about humanity. The film being in black and white also helps set the tone of the film I think. It won the oscar for best picture and was well deserving. 9.5/10.
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Excellent choice of movies!