10 Most Important War Films Ever Made

Directed by cinematic icon/ Close Encounters of the Third Kind filmmaker Steven Spielberg, 1993's Schindler's List was a black and white biopic of the eponymous conflicted factory owner Oskar Schindler, a German who saved the lives of thousands of Jewish refugees by harbouring them in his factories.

One of the first films to confront the full horror of the Holocaust in the guise of mainstream narrative film, the devastating movie follows Liam Neeson as the titular hero and Ralph Fiennes as the infamous Nazi Amon Goeth.

Gripping and intense, Spielberg's film takes the devastating realities of inhuman atrocities documented in 1985's nine hour epic Shoah and renders them easier for audiences to comprehend through the story of one man's moral crisis. In portraying the horrors of the Holocaust through the medium of a more mainstream film, Schindler's List forced viewers to contend with the reality of the Nazi's horrific crimes outside of art cinema and more avant garde experimental masterworks.