Steven Spielberg On The Legacy Of 'Schindler's List' 25 Years Later | NBC Nightly News
In this extended interview, Spielberg talks with Lester Holt about his experience directing the iconic film, and the decision to re-release it in 2018, with the intention of letting high school students attend free screenings.
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Steven Spielberg On The Legacy Of 'Schindler's List' 25 Years Later | NBC Nightly News
I am a German living about 150km from Bergen Belsen and visited the Camp multiple times. I stood in front of the remains of the huts with tens of thousands of corpses under it. My Grandfather on my fathers side was a member of the SS. Neighbors of my grandparents „disappeared“ in the 1940 and my mother remembers that. I personally knew two Holocaust survivors (who passed a few years ago). So I am as close to what happened in the Nazi time than anybody who was born long after the war. I read some of the antisemitic comments below and feel SO proud that I raise my children as upright, honorable people who despise racism and discrimination. I am not responsible for the Holocaust. But I am very responsible that this kind of history does not repeats itself. Not on my watch.
Bless you, Mareike. We stand strong together. Never again.
Mareike Dregger Do not forget, there were people in Germany who opposed the Nazis. Never forget the resistance. Long live sacred Germany! 🇩🇪
@@masteroftheassassins claus von stauffenberg only monument in Germany dedicated to a Nazi.
John B. Not just him. But the other members of the Resistance that were executed.
Thank you for sharing your story. It’s more important than ever that we vow “Never Again” and build a loving, empathetic, and compassionate world for our children.
How Ralph Fiennes and Liam Nielson didn't win Oscars for their performances is beyond me
I agree, this was probably Liam Neeson’s best performance ever. The ending scene of him finally letting out all his emotions is one of the greatest acting performances in cinema.
Liam Neeson was a best actor regardless of Oscar results
Tom Hanks in Philadelphia I can understand, but Tommy Lee Jones in The Fugitive beating Ralph Fiennes for Amon Goeth just defies logic.
@@hhluvzmagik Agreed. And can I just say I love the fugitive as a film but Ralph's performance is one of the best I've ever seen. Far better than Tommy's performance
@@Michael-cz6ob, Agreed! I do like TLJ and his movies, and I thought Sam Gerard is a good character, but Ralph's performance as Amon Goeth was and is truly timeless and a piece of art. Just like I also thought he should have won for "The English Patient". I feel strongly about that one too.
I’ll never forget walking out of the theatre after seeing this, it was like leaving a funeral. I don’t need to see it again, I will never forget.
I watched this movie for the first time an hour ago. I wanted to stop watching it twice because of how terrifying some of the moments were. I'm glad I made myself finish the viewing, even though I feel I won't be able to watch it again for years, if not ever again
Same I saw it in the theatre when it first came out, Only time ever that I have come out of a theatre and NO ONE was speaking a word and women and men were openly weeping.
I like to watch Schindler's List often because it's the BEST movie I've ever seen.
I can't believe this Movie won an award for Fiction, I was led to believe by Spielberg it's Non-Fiction.😡
A memorial for them. I found it very hard watching this movie, I had to pause many times. I couldn't stop crying. It makes you want to shut up and remember what happened 86 years ago. A very deep emotional pause (Selah Higgaion)
I heard that robin Williams would call Spielberg to make him laugh during the duration of the film shoot because Speilberg was so exhausted mentally because of how heavy and painful the material was
Spielberg also watched episodes of Seinfeld to lift his spirits.
Where did you hear that from?
True story. Steven's talked about it in other interviews - also Google exists to look it up.
‘I wanted to be a dead after I made that movie ‘
One of the greatest move ever
I am german. And i can tell you: it happened. I am ashamed of the people that sit somewhere far away and are trolling all over the internet spreading nonsense. My grandmother witnessed jewish neighbors getting kidnapped from their houses by the SS. She never saw them again. We, not just us germans, have to make sure that something like this never happens again.
@@Robhamilton197357 Stores and synagogues destroyed - no one paid attention if people got hurt or killed during that process, people being picked up in the middle of the night by armed soldiers, treated worse than animals. If someone died in public on the way to the camps, well... so what. And you are telling me that it doesnt proof anything? Where do you live? Why dont you come over here and check things out in real? You will find so much evidence that after you trip you will be convinced that it did happen.
@@Robhamilton197357 if you are well aware of what actually happened, then there is no further need to hold this conversation. Millions of people got murdered.
andyplanet My father was “Old School” Victorian Canadian. He was from Montreal. He flew 30 missions as a bomb aimer for the RCAF in a Halifax bomber from April 1944 to August 1944. I spent time with him in 1984 with his Brother and heard them whining about Jewish people doing bad things economically at the time? When I confronted my Dad & his brother about their comments and the fact that my dad fought to end this Persecution of Jewish people . My uncle dismissed my distain and horror of their antisemitism! It could happen again in a heartbeat! As David expresses!
@Brythonic The only thing "fictional" about it was some of the dialog, because exact wording that took place in conversations could not be known. The entire premise of the story is not fiction, and there is proof far and beyond the novel which unquestionably supports that. Including the testimony of the Jews who worked for Schindler. I'm sorry but I'm really having to fight the urge to add "duh" to the end of my comment
Thank you for your honesty. If only Turkey was as honorable.
Those who forget History are condemned to repeat it .
its WHO DO NOT LEARN FROM IT...but like this film...telling a half truth is ok
@@BabyDoIIx you read the book "Jewish-Run Concentration Camps In The Soviet Union" by Dr. Herman Greife?
@@myfingershavetheflu LOL
@@myfingershavetheflu Yer welcome Myfinger!
@@thebestofallworlds187 Katyn,by law you are not allowed to reveal historical truth about the joo under penaly of of imprisonment...(Im being SARCASTIC)
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing” - Edmund Burke
Yes.
Edmund Burke was a great man. But he didn't say that.
My Grandfather took me to this film when I was 12 years old because he knew how important it was for me to know about the horrors that occurred and the power of one man in the face of absolute evil.
Not only one man. It was one man that gave carte blache to other countries - now Ukraine, Hungary, Croatia, Romania - to treat Jews as they pleased, as non citizens which led to cruel violent pogroms with many deaths and the constant humiliation and aggression. Hate was so big and rooted that this happened befor the 'little man' oficially invaded those territories.
So what did you think of it after it was over? How did it affect you??
Your grandfather did something very noble by taking you to see Schindler's List .
"those who don't know their history are doomed to repeat it".. I know you're grateful for your Grandpa for showing this movie. Even if you were only 12 years old!
Wow that’s wild it must of been a roller coaster of emotions I seen it at 24 and was balling the whole time and could barely continue! I wanted to start screaming stop hurting these people
Let's take a moment of reverence for the great Australian author who brought Oskar Schindler's story to the public eye - Mr Thomas Keneally.
It is a fictionalised account of the true story of Oskar Schindler.
@@markleon411 Got it.
@@markleon411 It's also a fictionalized account of the true story of my hamster. Fiction is fiction is fiction.
@@jgunther3398 you are a fictionalised account of your mother's nightmare.
@@markleon411 Yep -- fictionalized
This is the one movie that no one should never forget.
"no one should never forget" 🤨 Sooo, ... it should be forgotten?
Double negative eh? A. Learn English and B. The actual events are far more important than the movie itself. I get your sentiment; however, you’d be better served by saying “the Holocaust shouldn’t be forgotten.”
@@tinkletink1403 nah. You’re just highly uneducated
It is the only film everyone should forget.
@Mohammed IFHAMUDDIN your people have done more murdering of people than even the nazis did.
Schindler's list wouldn't be what it is, with out John Williams. The music takes some of the most riveting scenes and just drives it right thru your heart. Brilliant.
About eight years ago a little Russian (I think) girl in the Olympics ice skated to the main theme. She came out in a little red coat, took it off and skated. She didn't do well enough to medal but got a standing ovation
@@Caligrammi Yulia Lipnitskaya. By far the most emotionally moving program ever performed in Olympic Games. Yulia was an excellent skated too - her flexibility, spins and technical acumen was excellent. She is certainly missed.
I can't believe this Movie won an award for Fiction, I was led to believe by Spielberg it's Non-Fiction.😡
I agree. A very deep and emotional score, especially when accompanied with the scenes in the movie. A memorial for them. What a wonderful gift for humanity.
@@rumarfile7335 we get it dude you’re a wehraboo
My high school took the entire junior class to see this movie when it debuted. It’s never left me, and I think everyone should watch this movie.
Same.
Meet too
I refused to watch that movie for many years because I'm somehow naturally sensitive about the holocaust. But when I did I was blown away how someone can make a movie like that. Truly one of the greatest movies ever made.
Great respect for your high school for understanding the importance of this film.
I just watched the movie. When it came out I couldn't face it. I am glad I plucked up the courage to watch it however I will never be the same again. It's like a document of the horrors of the death camps but also a beautifully made film. Never seen anything so harrowing and sickening in all my life. My logic side of my brain can know it actually happened and why it happened but I can't comprehend how any human could do this to these people. My problem is it happened in a modern western society just like where I live. It staggers me!!
I was 18 years old when Schindler's List was first released and I remember my mother and my aunt talking about it and thought that I should go and see it due to the fact that it was an important part of history that I knew nothing about. At the end of it, other audience members were coming up to me and asking if I was alright due to the fact that it was LITERALLY IMpossible for me to stop myself from sobbing out loud, NO MATTER HOW HARD I TRIED!!!! IT STILL has the same effect on me today!!!
Julie, tell your Mom, I want you for my daughter too.
I was able to hold back my tears (despite a building pressure in my chest) through most of the movie, right up to the scene where the survivors give Schindler a gold ring made from a gold tooth that has a saying from the Talmud on it. I broke down then and cried until long after the credits had finished rolling...
The end scene with the ring always makes me cry too, so sad 😥
this film made me cry to especially when i think of all the atrocities but more so the children that were killed i love kids and it shows where ever i go im a big softie at heart
Julie Gill it was the same for me.... my mother had told me about the horrendous torture that happed and like you went to see the movie..... to this day it breaks my heart, I've never left a movie sobbing and other people were either stone silent or sobbing too. I was never told about the holocaust at school, but now it is tought and we need to always talk about it because it's too HORRENDOUS to be forgotten. The little girl in the RED coat .... so many murders and I know it's a movie, but it was based on the truth.
The most important movie of all time. It should be required viewing for everyone.
I can't believe this Movie won an award for Fiction, I was led to believe by Spielberg it's Non-Fiction.😡
And the point? We're in bed with the Ukrainian Nazis.
As a theater manager we proudly presented this film in 2005. I was pleased how many customers came.
Without a doubt the most hard hitting, most Brilliant movie that has ever been made, God Bless you Oscar Schlindler
I can't believe this Movie won an award for Fiction, I was led to believe by Spielberg it's Non-Fiction.😡
This movie is a memorial for them. I had to pause many times watching, I couldn't stop crying. It makes you want to shut up and reflect where we were 86 years ago. A very deep emotional pause. (Selah Higgaion)
@@rumarfile7335 Really?? Wow, (Me too)
And God Bless you Steven Spielberg for giving us this film, and Liam Neeson and Ben Kingsley for embodying these men.
Re-release this movie every year. The world needs it.
Especially now.
Watching Schindler's List tore me to pieces. I am a very empathetic person so the horror, of the story, was extremely hard to bear. I can't thank Steven Spielberg enough for making the movie. I think it should be required watching in every high school in America, for if we ever let our society forget, what we let happen, we will end up making that mistake again.
@@lomparti did you know that the first Soviet government was made up mostly of Jews?
@@user-ci7vu7eo9w Jews were behind the Russian Revolution too, making up most of the first Soviet government.
@b52gf16c most of the first Soviet government was ethically Jewish. That's a fact, no matter who puts the blame on who.
In New Zealand most high school students study the book The Diary of Anne Frank. I also read Hiroshima at schooI. I have read a lot of the personal accounts. Sadly I don't think that hate for different cultures and countries etc has been achieved. You would think that we could of learnt to live in peace together by now.
@KatynMermaid 187 If you haven't covered this yet. The dirty rotten Khazarian Mafia. www.veteranstoday.com/2015/03/08/the-hidden-history-of-the-incredibly-evil-khazarian-mafia/
the scene where Oskar says he didn't save enough people always makes me cry and then the ring scene and then sobbing at the "real" Oskar's people coming down the hill..... epic movie and very important
I didn't cry at all until that scene... And then I can't stop
That scene tore me to pieces
Amen dear.
It's the worst part of the movie, it was a masterpiece until then. We didn't need a 'Hollywood' scene of the main character breaking down and sobbing. It also never happened
One of the greatest films ever. Period.
fasthracing the greatest ever
@@gleam6370 Oh, shame on you, Masha. You be a nice girl, and then, may be, you will find a nice guy. And don't blame your being an old maid on us.
@@Filiomena I Remember way back when this movie was in theaters, I went to see This movie, and It was Amazing, Intense, Thrilling, Charming, there were a few sad parts of the movie, Like the part of This Movie When Oscar Schindler had brought the women and children to his new factory, all of those men were looking out of the windows, Searching for their Family, seeing the looks on their faces, it was so sad, the end of the movie was amazing, seeing the real survivors placing rocks on the grave, that was Amazing.
Go away.
@@12345678927164 Why?
My great-uncle, like many from Appalachian America in the 30’s, was a complex of goodness and badness, of brotherhood and prejudice. He would never have believed in the Holocaust ... except he was one of the liberators of Dachau. He was only 21, and he said they had heard rumors of camps, but thought they were for political POWs. He took pictures of dead bodies stacked higher than his head. He said one thing, with a thousand yard stare. “If you don’t think your hair can stand on end so hard it can pick a metal helmet off your head...you’re wrong.” If the deniers think that they tracked down my uncle in the mountains and gave him a script to memorize, or gave him doctored photos in the 40’s for me to find in the 70’s...you’re inexplicable.
I can understand how an adult actor may be able to process the filming of a very traumatic scene, and then come back to reality. But this film had so many young children doing the same scenes. I would be extremely interested if Spielberg had any child psychologists 'on set' to deal with any child trauma whilst filming.
@@Robhamilton197357 You are a certifiable nut job, but you probably know that already !!!!
This comment is amazing. May I post a screenshot of it on my political themed Instagram account
Well told. Thank you. The horror is too difficult to inform . but you tried and I got a bit of it.
It would be very helpful to pay tribute and not let people forget if you would find it in your heart to contact Yad Vashem and donate your pictures so they can bare testimony for future generations.
Steven Spielberg, what an icon. And I love that this movie wasn’t made with the intent of commercial success but the world embraced it and made it one
I read Spielberg didn’t take money to work on the film.
I can't believe this Movie won an award for Fiction, I was led to believe by Spielberg it's Non-Fiction.😡
@@rumarfile7335 it’s based on a 1982 historical fiction book written by Thomas Keneally called Schindler’s Arc. Historical fiction creates a fictional narrative or ‘dramatization’ that is set in a historically factual setting. The film is known globally as one of (if not the) most historically accurate film depictions of Oscar Schindler’s life during the Holocaust. There’s no such thing as a non-fiction historical movie, those are called documentaries.
@@algorhythmic3904 Schildler's ark also won an award for Best Fiction.
@@rumarfile7335 I literally said the book was categorized as historical fiction 😂. Retake the 4th grade so you can get a better grasp on the distinction
Arguably the most powerful movie ever made. I went to the premier night at the cinema in my town and it is an evening I will never forget. The scene. in which Schindler is given the gold ring and has an attack of guilt, brought everyone to tears. I remember feeling my stomach wrenching as tears poured down my face. Even now I feel emotional thinking about it. The word "masterpiece" is often thrown around but this movie is without question a pure masterpiece. Respect to Spielberg.
beautiful
I remember when this film first came out in cinemas I decided to wait until I could watch it in home as I knew I would be emotional and didn't want to be sobbing in the cinema. My relatives fought in WWII and one was in the British army and saw the survivors at Bergen-Belsen. He was never the same afterwards, and told me about what he saw. I thank Spielberg for telling this truth, and hope the film continues to be release every 5-7 years so people do not forget.
@abi dabi Liar! Where are the crematoria? They are in the Palestinian camps in Syria bombed by Assad with barrel bombs. Who are the refugees? Palestinians evicted from Kuwait or "disappeared" in Kuwait in 1991. Or Palestinians killed in Jordan in 1970. Who are the SS? They are Hamas, Hezbollah and the Pasdarans. Who is teaching Jew hatred and murder? The PLO and its president. Who is imposing poverty, hopelessness, starvation and disease to Palestinians? Their own inept, corrupt and violent "leaders" and mullahs.
Thanks for the great interview. Saw the film in a Dolby theater on Thurs and it stands the test of time
Thursday?
Check out, all quiet on the western front
I went to the Portuguese premiere of this movie. I don't think we "tolerated" as Spielberg put it... I think we knew we had to take it all in, despite the sheer human violence depicted. I think we knew this would be a pivotal moment in all of our lives. It was learning. Educating ourselves. It's a necessary movie. It's a memorial. It was the first time I'd seen an ENTIRE theater not clapping at the end and instead crying our eyes out. We stayed to the very end of the credits. We left in tears... quietly...
We were shown "Schindler's List" in our auditorium in high school. I remember watching this and having a feeling overcome me. Something in me was moved that day. Way before that age I had already developed empathy, it was something else. I think it was the notion that, as human beings, we have an obligation to be the voice for others. And, that I must never hesitate to stand up to injustices.....even if I am the only one.
I can't believe this Movie won an award for Fiction, I was led to believe by Spielberg it's Non-Fiction.😡
Well said.
@Duchess He probably lives in the same place that shows all of those things on the 6 O'clock news...
Timeless movie. You can watch it many times over and find something in the movie that you didn’t see before. There are so many layers to how big this story is.
I can't believe this Movie won an award for Fiction, I was led to believe by Spielberg it's Non-Fiction.😡
The little girl with the red dress is humanity in a nutshell
I feel like if it had been in color, it wouldn’t have hit the same. I cry so much watching this movie, and the black and white makes it so much more emotional.
I cry just watching this interview and I cried the night Spielberg won best director..
I have watched Shindler's List many times over many years and it still makes cry to see how can this had happened. Still I am moved by the sacrifice Shindler made to save those he came to love.
I can't believe this Movie won an award for Fiction, I was led to believe by Spielberg it's Non-Fiction.😡
I'm an accountant. This movie made me proud to be an accountant.
I'm a Palestinian and really this film is one of the best movies that I have ever watched in my life . Despite the suffering from the Israeli occupation I learnt not to hate . I feel compassion with every human being who suffered from racism and persecution.
Sending love
firas firas Thank You Very Much. 😇👍👏👏🙏🙏❤
Thank you. I really hope Palestine will be liberated within your lifetime.
Do you know about one Israeli Arabs who want to change his Israeli citizenship to Palestinian, or another Arab citizenship ? I'm not, but I know that a lot of Palestinian Arabs dreaming to live in Israel. Cause in Israel they have much more rights than every another Arab country. Think about it.
Such a beautiful statement. It's not easy to keep our hearts open like that.
One of the most emotional movie moments in my life was seeing this on a weekday December night in 1993. Only a few people were in the theater, and when the credits ended at 1:00 AM, I stepped out into a snowfall in the parking lot. It was so surreal to behold such beauty after witnessing the horrors of the previous three hours. I had a lot to meditate on during the beautiful drive home. I will never forget it.
I never forgot it either. When I saw it. My God!
Same here.
I can't believe this Movie won an award for Fiction, I was led to believe by Spielberg it's Non-Fiction.😡
Yeah. Well said. I had to pause several times watching this movie, I couldn't stop crying. This movie is a memorial for them. It makes you want to shut up, and reflect where we were 86 years ago. A deep and emotional pause (Selah Higgaion). 248 years from now, generations will remember where they were when what will soon come occurs. We see where the world is headed now under Klaus Schwab: the director of the World Economic Forum. this movie is a lesson to all that a nation which does not learn from its past is doomed to repeat it.
The movie Schindler’s List was not a movie but an experience. Watching it left me change as a person. Thank you Steven! Bless you!
Thank you Steven Spielberg for making this movie.
It's scary to know the dark potential humans have as a species.
The movie is based on a novel.
@Karl Pilkington You see no difference in capitalist or socialist whites. Why should I see a difference in you ?
@@redwater4778 Search for the video, *"Jewish $upremacy EXPOSED"* + *"Know More News"*
ice water that’s just not true, especially considering most Jews are white.
True. Hate and love are strong feelings. If someone says " I hate this and that" it can lead to ignorce, discrimination, hate and soon murder.
I guarantee the real life survival, and horror, was 100x worse than the movie made it seem. Completely terrifying to think about.
Considering how horrifying the film is, that truth is enough to make us stop breathing.
Thank you from Hungary for this movie. Mr. Spielberg, it was a masterpiece.
I sew and make clothes for my girls. The clearing of the ghetto is why I will never make a red coat for my little girls. It was so impactful to me that even the sight of a child's red coat makes me emotional. By far, Schindler's List is one of Spielberg's most important films.
You might enjoy ‘The Dressmakers of Auschwitz, by Lucy Adlington. It tells the story of Jewish women who sewed clothes to survive the Holocaust.
What a great movie! When I watched it 25 years ago, I thought it would be a boring documentary film. Before I knew it, I was in tears. The images were so compelling that I paid full attention for the entire time of the movie. It made me speechless.
Kenneth Lui Same here😭😭
Once the first murder happened, then you knew.
It was when we got to the Krakow slum scene it made me feel devastated/ enthralled/ affected. Specifically the little girl shouting "Go home jews"
I can't believe this Movie won an award for Fiction, I was led to believe by Spielberg it's Non-Fiction.😡
Me too. This movie is a memorial for them and a lesson for humanity. I had to pause several times, I couldn't stop crying. It makes you want to shut up and reflect where we were 86 years ago. A deep and emotional pause. Selah Higgaion. We see where our world is headed now under Klaus Schwab: the director of the World Economic Forum. 248 years from now generations will remember where they were when what will soon come happens. In other words, a nation that does not learn from its past is doomed to repeat it.
I'm Canadian born in Canada..every time I watch this movie I cry...I couldn't even imagine... these poor people 💔💔💔
Best movie ever made in my opinion. A masterpiece.
I can't believe this Movie won an award for Fiction, I was led to believe by Spielberg it's Non-Fiction.😡
@@rumarfile7335 I Know Right
It’s the most important film ever made.
I thank Steven Spielberg for making Schindlers list which taught me about something I never knew about to the extent of the seriousness that it was. Schindlers list should be in every school syllabus as it’s the most important time in history.
Glad you do, because I supposedly expected the theaters for this reissue to be sardine tins of teens, along with some being interviewed in this story reacting in a manner that is mercifully expected when seeing it, so I'm sure those teens who had to see this reissue have the right to thank Spielberg as well!
this needs to be re=released every 5 to 10 years for all of the next generations to see. especially in this new era of budding dictatorships
More like every year on the anniversary of the Plasow camp being liberated.
@Natalie P Look at Trump.
@5,ooo LightYears Away Trump makes it easy. He proves it every time he opens his mouth or Tweets.
@Mastram मीणा January 20th 1945
John Fitzpatrick Trump should be banned from Twitter
Never forget. Never repeat. Always keep the discussion alive. Always practice love and compassion for all beings.
IKR? This is why I applaud the teenage girl interviewed @ 21:05 for reacting in a manner that is mercilessly expected when seeing it!
Thanx rika
I watched this at the cinema I was crying and all the cinema were in tears ☹️ we must remember that although survivors were liberated it was not the end of suffering for them, many realised they were now totally alone being the only survivor of their family, the homes they knew had gone, they had to find the strength to go on and rebuild their lives living with the horrors they had seen, sadly some could not live with the horrors ☹️ liberation did not bring happiness for many of the survivors........
And many of them were badly treaten because people who lost the war actually blamed the war on them, so the hate never ended! There was a pogrom in 1946 in Kielce, who could imagine...
@@imalrockme Liking your comment to acknowledge what happened, not to endorse it.
@@cherylhulting1301 My comment is ackowledging what happened, for people who think that the war being over, everything was fine, wich was not, of course. How is that negative in any way, that you would avoid endorsing it?
What an excellent interview. I agree with Steven Spielberg that the re-release was even more timely that its initial release. It's a shining jewel in the crown of Spielberg's immense body of work and so incredibly important.
I finally watched this film about two years ago before I went to visit and tour the Holocaust museum one of the most heartbreaking and well done films of all time. Well done Mr. Spielberg #NeverForget 💔
This is just an aside, whenever Spielberg shot a difficult sad scene Spielberg would call Robin Williams just a pick me up.
Still think the film has one of the most eloquently moving soundtracks in media. It’s just beautiful.
John Williams...from Star Wars, Jaws, and Indiana Jones.
Was originally going to watch this to understand how Spielberg filmed it but ended up watching the whole interview. Incredible interview with a master filmmaker and important piece of history. EDIT: I’ve seen the movie now and it was amazing. Truly worthy of Best Picture and one of Spielberg’s greatest films.
Steven Spielberg earned my respect
Love this movie and i think everyone should be made to see this. Can this help the kids of today?
Jon Hill exactly
Whoever saves one life, saves an entire world.
When the film was released, I watched twice. When DVD came, I bought one and watched several times. To me it is greatest movie of all time. I resolved to visit Krakow and Warsaw, which I did in 2016. I spent a day in Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp. Despite thousands of visitors, the place had melancholic atmosphere. I felt as if spirits of the dead were around us, walking with us, looking at us with most painful, terrified expression on their faces. I saw Krakow and Warsaw Ghetto. I stopped at the memorial where Willy Brandt, the German Chancellor, on state visit to Poland got out of his car, walked to the memorial and knelt down to pay homage and pray. No amount of speech, apology, regret would have achieved what this simple yet most heartfelt gesture did.
There were many other death camps, ghettos, and scenes of the Holocaust atrocities besides Auschwitz. Especially in Poland and Ukraine but also in Byelorussia and the Baltic States. I believe Belzec, Sobibor and Treblinka in Poland are places you can visit and appreciate the full scale of the horrors and how it happened in the relative peace of not having huge numbers of visitors. It is important that people know about these places.
When I first saw the promo for this film I said to my husband "Oh my God this looks amazing!" I sat through it while 7 months pregnant with my first child, who kicked the whole way through. How he would think people wouldn't want to see it? He's Spielberg. It's an incredible story.
....Liam Neeson....magnificent....!
The red coat girl brings immediate tears to my eyes Everytime I watch the movie. Spielberg's masterpiece! We must never forget about great men such as Oscar Schindler. Spielburg did humanity a great justice bringing this story to millions to show the masses that no matter the evil in this world, there will always be humanitarians.
She survived read her book.But she said Spielberg would not speak to her !?
She did not. Her character in the movie was based on a real little girl who's father told her story at the trial of Eichman Bach was questioning Dr. Martin Földi, a survivor of Auschwitz, about the selection process at the train station in the shadows of the infamous "Arbeit Macht Frei" sign at Auschwitz. Földi described how he and a son went to the right while a daughter and his wife went to the left. His little daughter wore the red coat. When an SS officer sent the son to join the mother and daughter, Földi describes his panic. How would the boy, only twelve, find them among the thousands of people there? But then he realized the red coat would be like a beacon for the boy to join his mother and sister. He then ends his testimony with the chilling phrase, "I never saw them again
That and the kids hiding in the latrene.
I gave you a thumbs up ofc but for me thats not the message of the movie, nor the important part. Schindler, whilst undoubtedly a hero who saved many lives, is just a vehicle through which the truth of the holocaust is told. It gives the film a narrative and is a wonderful story without which it would not have reached as many people as it has. I mean no disrespect. I stress that this is just my opinion and what i personaly feel about the film. Your own opinion and your experience of the film are just as valid as mine or anyone elses.
@@meflove That strangled my chest, that scene was part of the movie trailer shown on TV, at least, here in Portugal.
That movie should be shown in every school on the planet once every year!
Why? Such a policy may confuse the population into thinking that the Jews were uniquely suffering, as no other peoples are mentioned. Shall we watch movies about the USSR's Gulags? Or the Japanese camps in Manchuria or the POW camps? Shall we watch films about the many battle fronts? The Jews represent maybe 6% of the total casualties from WWII. Let us also not forget that WW2 was part of a long line of horrific wars with astonishing death tolls. WW1, the Chinese Civil War, Russian Civil War, Russian Revolution, Russo-Japanese War, and so on. While this film is great, it tells an incredibly narrow story.
@@melanie851 Change my mind about what? What did I say that you think I would not say if I saw these camps?
*High school
@@furtim1 can you please just off yourself
@@BrettBiniaris "can you please just off yourself" Said one of the "good" people...
My landlord in 1976 was one who had liberated Buchenwald. A lovely man, kind and considerate and who had never spoken about what he had seen there. Three years later he shot himself and his wife. People who knew him best said that sadness and horror would sometimes sweep over him when he read about cruelty or saw it on the TV news. They believe he was trying to take her and himself out of the possibility of ever suffering like the people he saw in the camp. That is a deep, deep scar in a witness.
What a horrible story! I read a book about the children of liberators and it went into great detail about the difficulties the children had to form a relationship with their liberator fathers. The scars left from what they witnessed are beyond imagination.
We have to take care of our vets. No one signs up for suicide. They should feel supported-always.
It's amazing how his work ranges from sci-fi and adventure films, to this historical tragedy.
Dear Mr Spielberg, you said that you and your wife experienced the total silence of the audience when you watched it on the 25th Anniversary. I watched the film on its first release here in the uk, let me tell you even then the audience watched in silence, and when the film came to its conclusion nobody moved, but sat, in silence, riveted to their seats. It is without doubt the most powerful film I have ever seen, and whenever I hear the theme music I cry. Thank you for having the courage to make it !
This movie depicted exactly what was going on in Germany and the SS. This is absolutely based on a true life history. I have relatives that died and I have relatives that survived. I saw the tattooed numbers on their Rms. MAY WE NEVER FORGET THIS HAPPENED. I Ran out of the room at least six times balling my eyes out while watching this film. Please be kind to one another.
I had to pause this movie several times, I couldn't stop crying. Its a memorial for them. It makes you want to shut up and reflect. A deep and thoughtful pause. Selah Higgaion. We see where our world is headed now under Klaus Schwab: director of the World Economic Forum. 248 years from now, generations will remember where they were when what is coming will occur soon. In other words, a nation that does not learn from its past is doomed to repeat it.
My daughter has met a survivor and felt her arm. My father lost family members in Auschwitz. His parents came to America in 1917 but he had Aunts and Uncles who didn’t think they were in danger until it was too late and they couldn’t get out
I let the movie run , and keep crying .
Sadly the movie does not depict exactly what happened. What really happened was way more cruel and brutal as Spielberg or any other person could ever have created for the cinema. Survivors would tell you the same with a rather famous quote of one after watching the movie beeing "not brutal enough". Spielberg created a masterpiece without a doubt. And what i consider one of the most important movies of all time, if not THE most important. But mirroring the brutality of these times is just not possible aslong as we cant go back and film it as it happens.
Steven is a genius. Everyone needs to see this film 🎞.
And yet people's hearts are still hardened. With all the evidence people still believe it never happened.
story of a Yiddish granma:www.bitchute.com/video/9z2hEaQWUYwa/
Those who don’t believe don’t matter really as one must be totally uneducated to say anything like that .. some never even heard of Holocaust at all .. sooo
The “The Man In The High Castle” also powerfully addresses the atrocities of hates potential in our history, and in this moment. Thank you to the directors, authors, and in memory of those lost to a darkness so vile, we MUST NEVER FORGET.
oh please. that's total garbage.
A devastating film that must be seen.
The terrible thing is it only scratched the surface a little. . . I won't go into detail obviously
I am a retired 30+ years U S Army Officer.... In the early 90s I was stationed in Germany.... What surprised me after all those years you could still run into and have conversations with older Germans that absolutely didn’t believe the Jews had been massacred...... As a Military Historian who has spent years walking the battle fields of the world I believe I have a working knowledge of WW2 and it’s significant events. The fact I repeatedly met Older German Citizens who disavowed facts that I knew were true was astonished to me.... The power of the Nazi Party and Hitler simply cannot be overstated.
You can say the same about Donald Trump and his Republican Party now. His supporters are just as fanatic and blind as Hitler's supporters were back then. The same aggression, the same ideology (like Qanon). It's real scary.
@@MVEProducties and you are spreading hate and propaganda. You learned nothing.
Spielberg’s best movie 🎥
I can understand how an adult actor may be able to process the filming of a very traumatic scene, and then come back to reality. But this film had so many young children doing the same scenes. I would be extremely interested if Spielberg had any child psychologists 'on set' to deal with any child trauma whilst filming.
Speilberg should be charged with hate crimes
Night and Fog by Alain Resnais is 100x better.
Brythonic Brythonic Keneally's book is a novelized version of a true story: how a German industrialist and Nazi named Oskar Schindler managed to save 1,200 Jews from transportation to concentration camps. It's a gruelling tale, and Schindler is not a conventional hero. time.com/5470613/schindlers-list-true-story/?amp=true For more than 5½ years, Oskar and Emilie Schindler risked their lives to save 1,200 Jews from certain death within Nazi concentration camps. The couple saved Jewish workers in their factory first in Krakow, Poland, and later in what's now the Czech Republic. www.oskarschindler.com/
Omid Films amen! #2 would be empire of the sun.
This movie opened my eyes to the world and has been my favorite ever since, nothing impacted me as much as this.
So fun story about this movie: when it first came out, my dad did not know what exactly it was about, he just heard it was set during WWII and was a really good movie. So, he proceeded to take a girl on a first date to it.....they didn’t go on any more dates
Yeah, that movie is either going to be a grand slam first date or a swing-and-a-miss.
@@michaelcroteau5919 True. I probably would have ended up marrying him.
I can hardly watch this movie. My son is a descendant of the Rosners, Schindler's Jews depicted in this movie. My heart just breaks 💔
This comment section is proof that American education has failed us.
@@notsparctacus HA! Good one. American education? You mean ZIONIST education
True, but anti-Semitism only seems to affect people who lack the ability to comprehend what is taught at school or skipped school altogether.
@@LukeLovesRose Luke....how DARE you say such filthy racist crap. Go back to your little hill hut in Idaho with the rest of the trash we should sweep out of our country and do us a favor...don't propagate...we don't need more like you in the future.
The book Schindlers List is a novel
and American morals.
I’ve always been fascinated by why the little girl in red and why she was in colour. Now I know
Words fail me that 646 people could dislike this interview. anyone of you brave enough to tell us why?????
RIP Isaac Kappy.
One of the greatest movies ever. Probably top 5
Given the comments and the dislikes...it could happen again. It's that easy.
That's what scares me
The uneducated, hateful responses are all too disappointing. The funny thing is when these people are sometimes confronted with their anonymous posts publicly and go running away like roaches in the light denying they ever said it...every one a coward, hiding
I think it's just yankees that hate Jewish people. Up-state New York was the worst, they try to hurt little Jewish girls up there. It's unbelievable. Makes a Southerner want to succeed!
unfortunately yes, we are so easily brainwashed.
Rwanda, anyone?
I am a Hollywood + Bollywood enthusiast, simply love movies! The way this movie hit me is unlike anything i ve witnessed. Holy Christ, for one year i cried everytime i remembered any of the scene from Schindler's List. Knowing that this actually happened is bone chilling realisation! Let's come together and join hands people. The world needs to come together
After what happened in D.C last month, this movie is more timely than ever.
I’m a granddaughter and grandniece of Holocaust survivors and I know this film is so SO important... but I haven’t been able to face it yet. Especially since they both passed. Maybe one day
It is your responsibility to watch it in honor of their lives…..please watch it asap…tomorrow is never promised
As a 65-year old Australian, I am proud that Thomas Keneally was made aware of that typewritten original of the List preserved in the Mitchell Collection of the State Library of New South Wales, which led him to write the Ark. Very few movies have emotionally moved me, but the final sequence in Schindler's List had me in tears as the actors interacted in the real survivors. This will be the masterpiece of Spielberg, for which he will be remembered and celebrated for God knows how many years to come, and well deserved.
Thank you for making this very important film. We must never forget. ❤️
Spielberg is a cinematic genius. He can’t screw up a script/film. Everything he touches turns into gold. Why the studio that financed Schindler’s list thought this film would not be a commercial and artistic hit is beyond me. When I first saw it when it was released I immediately knew it would be an instant classic.
Fabulous interview dealing with one of the most important stories ever told on the big screen. Spielberg is a genius.👍👏👏👏❤️
John Williams score in this movie is on another level!
We should remember Yitzhak Stern just as much. He definitely did enough.
In fact Stern is the real hero of the story. Schindler's role should not be underestimated but it was Stern who did so much behind the scenes to save so many of his fellow Jews. I was watching SL again last night and the way Ben Kingsley lifts the typewritten pages of list, which manages to be both slightly clumsy and marvelously reverent, makes me cry every time.
I am a Russian Jew, I saw this film in ‘93 as a high schooler. The little girl in red...looked just like me at that age. I have had nightmares about what was done since I was very young. “How?” That’s all I could think as a 17 year old.
don't worry, the movie was based on the fiction book 'Schindler's List'
That is why all decent people should be aware of how this can happen. I did service in Germany and saw the evidence. Guard against the rise of authoritarian would-be dictators.
I love this film, though I've only seen it in its entirety twice. Great storytelling. Spielberg's voice is shaking as he tells of his experience making this masterpiece. You can tell it affects him on a personal level.
My understanding is that he and everyone was shaken by the experience. Spielberg reportedly called his friend Robin Williams many nights and asked him to tell him jokes to get through the filming. As they were shooting at sites that were central to the actual events, Liam Neeson burst into tears first walking onto the set. Ralph Fiennes said in an interview that he experienced nightmares for three years after playing Amon Goeth. I tremendously respect all of the survivors, cast and crew who put themselves through this trauma to tell such an important story. Knowing their pain informs every viewing I have of SL.
@@cherylhulting1301 I've always wondered how playing Goeth affected Fiennes. Thank you.
I just watched today! I have no idea how long the movie has existed in my house. My husband’s grandpa was shot dead in Antwerp Belgium in 1940s because he tried to help the Jewish, I still have his funeral card in the family book.
"Industrialized genocide" is a horrifying term when you really think about it.
Ralph Fiennes was perfect. Thank you for casting him.
Krogg Fashe his character was hanged. That’s consisting with reality. Ralph is fine. 💖🤗
I saw this movie in the theaters in 1993, as an 18 year old, at an excursion from Boot camp, during basic training in the IDF. Myself, along with many in my unit, grandkids of Holocaust survivors and relatives of many who were murdered. The silence we all kept for the remainder of that day, said it all. That day defined our Israeli roots, our mission, our responsibility. Never again.
So why you doing it to the Palestinian people you doing it to someone also so won't happen to you again makes no sense
We should take better care of each others on this tiny planet.
@magesticmaniacc and vice verca?
Igor Flexus very much so
@magesticmaniacc -Don`t belive everything you read. Yapp, all human cultures has been bad.
The first time I watched it my chest hurt from pain and I couldn’t stop crying the second time I watched it I spent it all crying it’s a beautiful movie that should never be forgotten and it should be mandatory for every school.
That's why I applaud the teens being interviewed that were inevitably going to pack the theaters to see it, along with reacting in the manner they were mercilessly expected!
@@SaraHouck461 They were so well spoken and wise!
@@imalrockme I apologize for bringing this up again, but it would’ve been interesting if those teens were informed that it was exactly twice as long that a certain milestone in the film industry entered the scene that seemed essential in order to make that type of experience a reality, so I thought it seemed like perfect timing for this reissue to occur right around the same time as the MPAA ratings system’s 50th anniversary, which I was lucky enough to notice thanks to a mind-blowing history lesson I was lucky enough to learn about during my college education! Man, it’s no wonder that ratings system had easily come under fire!
I was introduced to this movie by my 7th grade English teacher in 1997. She loved this movie and it took a whole week for us to get through it because she kept stopping it to explain each scene so we really understood what we were watching. To this day it is still my favorite movie.
This masterpiece should be a reminder of Oskar Schindler and Emilie (Pelzl) unfairly not so mentioned by the way, who risked everything to save lives. Both did everything to manage such a survival enterprise.
I recently saw on FB a wedding photo of Helen Hirsch, Goeths maid. She was so happy! Wonderful to see , bless her 💖
Thank you Mr. Spielberg for what you have done. You will be remembered through the ages.
Thank you for re-making this film, as a world we should not forget. I am thankful that we are allowed to be able to make this film, not censored. This is something that should not be forgotten.
...and how. I say that because it's no wonder it seemed like perfect timing for the 25th anniversary reissue to occur right around the same time it was exactly twice as long since a certain milestone in the film industry entered the scene that I realized seemed essential in order for this to be defended as curricular material thanks to a mind-blowing history lesson I was lucky enough to learn about during my college education, meaning this particular reissue was right around the same time as the ratings system's 50th anniversary!
This man gave us films that we'll never forget.