It can also kill lots of people though. During World War I, a British soldier named Henry Tandey found a 29-year-old wounded German corporal. In an act of battlefield mercy, Tandey decides to spare the German and left him alone. Who was that German Corporal? Why, none other than Adolf Hitler.
Schindler’s List is easily the most powerful ending of all time. My personal favorite is The Rock, where Nic Cage rides off into the sunset with his new wife and uncovers the microfilm that Mason gave to him with all of the dirty secrets of the US government. I also love T2 ending with Arnold giving a thumbs up 👍🏻
The diectorial choice to show Liam Neeson only in shadow or in a long shot is inspired, as if it's the ghost of Oskar Schindler standing at his own grave. BRILLIANT.
My Uncle who would be 99 years old this year was one of the soldiers tasked with helping to liberate the camps. He never got over the horrors he saw there. Every time I hear a Holocaust denier I shake my head in disbelief. RIP Uncle Curt.
I saw archive footage of the concentration camps they showed at the Nuremburg trials. I don't even have a word in my vocabulary to describe how awful it was.
Both of my Grandfather's were in the US Army, and both liberated separate Concentration Camps. It broke my mother's father. Neither could talk about it. It's still unbelievable, and Eisenhower was right. Take as many pictures as you can, because one day, someone isn't going to believe this happened.
As a granddaughter of a World War II hero, I say thank you for your grandfather’s service; my grandfather fought in the Army during the second World War as well.
My Great-grandfather was a British Soldier in both the First and Second world wars towards the end of the second he was tasked with commanding a unit that had to identify the dead at Bergen Belson concentration camp. He never spoke of what he saw, it was only many years after he died that a letter was sent to his son (my grandfather) from one of the soldiers that had been under his command that we learned the truth. Of how they had had to clear entire fields carpeted with bodies, of tiny huts with the bodies of hundreds stuffed in. The letter was also a posthumous thank you to my Great-grandfather for his leadership which helped the young soldiers stay sane in the mist of all the horror they were seeing. I'm very proud of you: Major Lancelot Fitzgerald Royal Irish Fusiliers.
Seeing all the people Schindler saved at the grave was emotional enough to break anyone... But seeing his wife, now old and in a wheelchair... That broke me beyond repair, because that right there is true love. After all the years since he left Emilie in Argentina, she never stopped caring about Oskar. Not even after he died in 1974. And remember: this scene is the first time Emilie saw the grave of her husband... after 19 long years since he died. P.S.: yes, that is his real wife, Emilie Schindler, she died in 2001. Spielberg himself arranged that she could travel to Israel to the grave of her husband so that she could finally see her husband's final resting place. Her exact words were: "At last we meet again ... I have received no answer, my dear, I do not know why you abandoned me... But what not even your death or my old age can change is that we are still married, this is how we are before God. I have forgiven you everything, everything."
Maybe Oskar left his wife because he felt ashamed. He gave up his wealth to save so many people and he didn't have anything left over to show for it. He tried several times to start over but failed each time. He probably felt like a failure as a husband and a provider for his wife. But that's just a guess on my part.
Truly ashamed that in life, Schindler lost it all, his wealth, his power, his prestige, yet he is remembered today as the man who saved thousands of Jews from concentration camps. Even if it took his entire wealth to save the Jews, he was unable to regain the wealth that made him a successful businessman. However, one can say that in return, he earned more wealth than one could possibly ever gain by garnering the Jews he saved, a chance to live a life free from Nazi persecution. In the end, it was the Jews that he saved that ended up saving him after WWII, despite them themselves robbed from the atrocities of Nazi racism, they still remembered that one German, that one Nazi member, that one man who went against his regime's ideology, who still had a heart, mind, and consciousness of a human being.
That is true that some people join the Nazi party in order to move up socially like Schindler or pursue their advance in science like von Braun, but most Nazi members join out of ideology that somehow pure blood Germans were meant to be the master race. It really hard to discuss who joined the party out of X, Y, or Z reasons because a majority of party member documentation is sadly lost forever when the Nazis began burning every document that could incriminate them post-war.
Not to tarnish his name, however, for all intents and purposes, he was war profiteer. His wealth deepened on the war continuing. They reference in a scene earlier in the movie where Oskar asks Itzhak if there should be any issues with his money, where Itzhak replied, "the war could end." Morally, if he kept his wealth, it would have been blood money. So he used his blood money for good. God/Yahweh will bless him for all eternity (for Christians) or until the Jewish Messiah returns (for my Jewish folks) 🙏🏽🙏🏽
The act of them leaving stones, a very meaningful Jewish tradition, on his gravestone even though he was Catholic speaks so much by itself. They were honouring him with a piece of their culture and religion. It's beautiful and heartbreaking at the same time 🤍
I'm a Rosner. My great uncles Henry and Leo are portrayed in the film along with others. I'm very fortunate to be alive today. This makes me tear up everytime. I have to make the best out of this lifetime. I owe it to Oskar
Interestingly enough, when Spielberg decided to make the movie (after reading the book, which, when he heard about it, thought that it must be fictional), he also decided to not take any salary for making it. His thinking was that it was going to be a commercial flop, and he didn't want it to lose any more money that it was already going to.. he was making the movie out of principal... little did he know.. .
@@BillinHungary also, he got paid for Jurassic Park, which was a success. Spielberg was exhausted after 1993, because not only did he direct jurassic park that year, but he started filming Schindler's list when JP was in post production. It was well worth it in the end.
You are sobbing because you are a decent person. But please understand, Holcaust denial is not the act of an insane person. Just as Nazis themselves were and are not insane- at least for the most part. To say Nazis are insane is to excuse them, because insanity is a legal defense for murder. And certainly no more insane than the average two-bit murderer who cannot use insanity as a defense. We may think it requires an insane person to participate in a genocide as horrific as the Holocaust,, but the opposite is closer to the truth; the larger the scale of the machinery of murder, the easier it is for humans to tolerate it and even pull the levers. We all seem to support the concept of war- the ultimate scheme for the greatest mass murders ever- and we still think of ourselves as perfectly sane. Nazis then and today (and anyone who claims the Holocaust never happened is a Nazi at heart) are as sane as anyone else who holds unshakable religious convictions. Nazis aren't insane- just plain mean. And they are mean because they are angry, frustrated, failures in life, or marriage, or parenting, or whatever, and they almost all experience horrendous and / or physically brutal upbringings- just as most small-scale murderers do. Naziism is a form of religion thinking. We have all seen that religion can accomplish great good in this world. We've also seen (on 9/11 and many other dates) that religion can unleash unspeakable evil. Like many religions, Naziism holds to a vengeful, all powerful, unapproachable , and unquestioned leader at its head. It is based on laws and tenets and ancient legends from the mists of time which are frankly preposterous when viewed objectively, but which must be obeyed without question or even the slightest doubt. And Naziism is ancient, as old as Europe itself. It grew out of a deep-seated, medieval, superstitious hatred for Jews by Christians- a hatred that was endemic not just in Germany, but all across Europe. Like any other religious person, a Nazi's innermost convictions were and are engrained in them from childhood, often through the intentional or unintentional influences of a church. While some Nazis thought of Hitler as a god-man (just as many Christians think of Trump today),even the most ardent Nazis did not believe in the divinity of Hitler. Evil itself was their real deity- evil and hate, greed and insensitivity, and rape and torture and unspeakable brutality, and Hitler allowed them to at it s never before. You could say the "devil" made them do it, but that would be to excuse their culpability as human beings. The Holocaust was perpetrated by sane but utterly ruthless human beings who were 100% certain of their convictions (Amon Goeth went cooly and calmly to the gallows, saluting Adolf Hitler all the way). These Nazi atrocities could never have been carried out on such a scale otherwise- and they came perilously close to conquering the world. They may have lost their war, but their movement lives on against all odds, as religions tend to do. And they are at it again, this time in America. There is a direct lineage between Naziism and the KKK, the biker cult, Proud Boys, MAGA, and today's warped and twisted version of the Republican Party- it is all part of the same white Christian nationalist movement that began growing in Ronald Reagan's day and has swept Donald Trump to the brink of a fascist dictatorship. Sorry, don't get me started...
What breaks my heart. Look at the actors who played the kids. Those were the ages of the kids he saved, look how small they are, look how young they are and they were saved by him. The heartbreak of thinking of all the kids that he couldn't save, the people who weren't saved.
I am German. When I was a lot younger, my class went through the local history with a regional historian to develop a deeper understanding of the local impact of the Nazi regime. I will never forget the single surviving photo of a young girl who was my age at the time, from a local village which still exists to his day. She was beautiful. They murdered her in one of the camps after deporting her and her family in 1942. Not even a grave of her exists, apart from the usual memorials ( memorial doesn’t do the German term justice, we call it a "Mahnmal", "mahnen" is a verb that translates closest to admonish, so these are not simply monuments to mark important events of the past but intended as constant reminder to be aware of it and to not repeat it, almost exclusively used in the context of WW2 ). Everytime I look into the history of the time, concerning the Shoah, I always think about her.
When Corona is over, I wanna travel to see Jerusalem. And I will visit the catholic cemetary of Zion and place a stone in remembrance and thankfulness for Oskar Schindler.
@@Sedna063 Sorry! I didn't know! I didn't mean to jump to conclusions! Your English was well-written and I just assumed... Please don't judge me... -_-'
There's something about Mrs. Emilie Schindler's part that just absolutely broke my heart. The smile as she gets to pay her respects, but it fades into sadness really quickly as she's rolling away and still looking at the grave with deep grief. That shit tore me into a trillion pieces and I was already torn up thousands and millions of times throughout this movie.
That broke me some inside. Still, she knew that she would see him again in heaven Yes, she was sad when she visited his grave, but she knew that she would see him again in heaven. Mrs. Schindler might have thought, "Please wait for me, Oskar. We will be together again by then." My apologies for going on like that. Had to get it off my chest.
that was her first time visiting his grave. when he left her in 1953, they never saw each other again till this moment. "At last we meet again ... I have received no answer, my dear, I do not know why you abandoned me ... But what not even your death or my old age can change is that we are still married, this is how we are before God. I have forgiven you everything, everything ..."
That last shot. Just Liam alone, far from the camera, putting a rose on the real Oskar’s grave, the one note and the subtitles. That… is pain. Pure and excruciating pain.
I’m glad Spielberg made this film. I don’t think any other director at the time could have pulled off what he did, and brought the story of Oskar Schindler to the public’s attention.
@@to_co_jest_prawdziwe Korczak is rather overrated. Obviously Spielberg was influenced by the film, but Schindler's List is just so much better. The cinematography is atrocious and the acting is stiff. Korczak is most definitely an artistic failure that at the very least offers filmmakers tips on how to correctly create a film. At least it's still an extremely powerful film. But there is no way you could possibly argue that "Korczak is a far better movie." Korczak's production is so bad I laughed a couple times at the pure garbage I was enduring when I for a brief moment realized someone actually made this. I just hope that someone makes another story about Janusz Korczak. Hopefully someone competent. Like seriously, how is Wajda better than Spielberg?
@@dh5e6drdrhdgsrh92 Well. Hollywood movies have different demands from European cinema...In general Wajda is Better director if you look at all movies he made...Diamond and Ashes is his movie too... He is not a direct who could make shits like Jurassic Park
@@dh5e6drdrhdgsrh92 and Wajda would never make movie about a German business man who made fortune from forced labour- like Schindler... that's disaster
@@to_co_jest_prawdziwe idk. some people have different tastes. I'll admit, I didn't cry in Schindler's list. Yet for some reason i did in Korczak. Yes, Korczak is a much more powerful film. However, Schindler's list is better made. It looks like a movie. It's somewhat enjoyable to watch, although the subject matter is obviously not that fun. Korczak is heartbreaking. But Schindler's list just doesn't seem like an amatuer made it. Schindler's list is good. i mean at the very least, appreciate what it did to expand the public's knowledge of the holocaust or something. Anything that doesn't glorify the holocaust makes me give it some respect.
@@dh5e6drdrhdgsrh92 You are very good person...It is my fault because I started that discussion in valueing which movie is better and who is better director...as you said- we all should keep respect over Holocaust...God bless you
My grandparents told me that when they went to see this film in the theater, you couldn't hear well the score in this scene 'cause there was a lot of crying noises.
I saw this when I was carrying my daughter all the cinema was in tears from the start to the finish including myself 😢😢😢 you could hear a pin drop all through the movie
@@Tumbleweedpassingby It's a mistranslation. 'Pathetic' used to be a generic term for something extremely emotional (see Beethoven's Pathetique sonata or Tchaikovsky's Pathetique symphony).
To me it had to be humbling and a revelation. The actors obviously know about what happened, studied it in school. But imagine standing next to a person who saw it, lived it, probably still had nightmares about it.
@Quaker 2019 You really should examine your own comment before calling someone else's stupid. Anyone capable of critical thinking would be able to comprehend that I and the original commenter were referring to the *ADULT* performers. Not to mention genius, the movie was released in 1993, we are now in 2021. That's 28 years, closer to 30 than 24. Quit now while you're behind, lest you look stupid again.
Fun fact: seven years after shooting the movie, a list was found in a house in Frankfurt in which Oscar Schindler had lived. This was the *real* Schindler‘s List.
@@pyramidhead8659 according to the german wikipedia site about Oskar Schindler, the original list was sold to a private bidder. against the resistance of Emile Schindler, who wanted it to be an exhibit in s museum.
@@TheColinChapman I don't blame Mrs. Schindler for wanting to have the List in a museum. It's a piece of history that should be preserved for countless generations.
Can we take a moment to recognise Poldek Pfefferberg at 4:10 without whose untiring efforts this movie would not have been possible? He is the reason why Schindlers Ark became a book.
@@tl9585 He spent 30 years attempting to have the story of Schindler known. It was by chance that Thomas Kinnealy came into his shop and due to speaking with Leo agreed to write the novel Schindler' Ark in 1980. Leo then wrote Speilberg urging to make a film based on the novel. He was quoted as saying that Schindler gave him his life and in return he hoped to give him immortality.
This final scene brings so much welling emotion to the heart as we see the Schindler Jews, most of them accompanied by the actors who portrayed them, laying stones on Schindler's grave in Mount Zion. It's touching to see at 3:10 Rebeka Bau place her fingers on the gravestone in gratitude. 4:20 is touching as we see Itzak Stern's widow accompanied by Sir Ben Kingsley (whose performance was equal to Liam Neeson's). 4:35 is the most heartfelt, both warming and breaking, as Mrs. Emilie Schindler arrives. She spoke of her husband's abandonment, and only until after his death and the filming here, was she with him again; she spoke only of forgiveness and that she would love him forever. 5:20 closes this emotional sequence with Liam Neeson placing the pair of roses atop the grave. His performance was perfect in portraying the man as he was: He was human like all of us. He made mistakes, had weaknesses, but in the end, because he saved all those innocent people, he was a good man. God bless you, Oskar Schindler.
The only member of the Nazi party who failed to extinguish that one true light within his heart. He should be remembered for all time for what he did. It wasn't for honour or glory, medals or recognition. He simply did it because it was right. The generations of his Jews will forever be his legacy. Rest in paradise Oskar Schindler.
@@herrmajor2310He wasn't the only Nazi to do so. One was Helmut Kleinicke, who saved hundreds of Jewish lives during the Holocaust. After the war he raised his only child, a daughter, with his wife. He never accepted any rewards or communicated with any of the Jews he saved. He told his daughter that he only saved a few lives (he saved hundreds of Jewish lives!). After he saw the German broadcast of the American movie The Holocaust, he suffered a stroke and died a few months later. When Helmut Kleinicke was finally honored his daughter said that he felt guilty that he didn't save enough lives, much like Schindler did. Look him up.
@@theprettyaverage9899 OMG to WHO? You or God? And don’t EVEN say God, because I’m pretty positive you didn’t have coffee with him this morning so you don’t know anything about how HE feels! But ya know, just out of curiosity, what is it exactly you do? Roam around UA-cam doing nothing but checking comment after comment after comment, anxiously waiting to see if you can catch somebody saying OMG, just to correct them? Wasted endeavor TRUST ME!!! There are FAR more important things in this world that urgently need attending to with God, then you wasting your breath pointing out absolutely ridiculous and meaningless and frivolous things!!!!
2:05 That shot fucking broke me. I never cry at movies, never. That was the closest I ever got. Throughout the whole movie you see so much misery, so much pain, so much evil. But despite the realistic nature of the movie, it is still just a movie, so it doesn't quite become real. But the transition hits you like a bag of bricks. It is real, it happened, these people lived through all that misery and pain and evil. This isn't just a horrific fantasy of a twisted screenwriter, it is the cruel reality of the world we live in.
Yes, however, Oskar Schindler, operating in the middle of Nazi hell, fooled the murderers and saved many lives. In the midst of madness there was decency and there still is. The monsters get the headlines but once in a while, so do the good guys.
@@mrsj1417 Not necessarily. Some people are hardened by what they know about the Holocaust. My grandparents were Holocaust survivors. Some of them survived Auschwitz and Buchenwald. The stories they told me were so horrible that seeing a film like this, which is as sad and moving as it truly is (it's a masterpiece for sure) pales in comparison to the horrors that have been passed down through oral storytelling. My paternal grandmother was a shell of a person, the most miserable person I ever met. Because four of her siblings, and both of her parents, were killed in concentration camps. She and one sister survived. The sister moved to South Africa and got married there and had a child. Unfortunately, she died in labour. Then, her husband could not deal with the grief and killed himself. So my grandmother ending up bringing up that child. Multiple layers of tragedy there.
I feel so bad for her they ended up on the run and bankrupt and Oskar abandoned her and she never saw him ever again, she died completely alone and had to be monitored 24 7 by police in case of retaliation and her only surviving relative was a niece
I don't believe that there will ever be a more fitting piece of music for a film than John Williams score for Schindler's list. Beautiful, haunting, sad.. What a magnificent and important film that Spielberg directed with excellence .
Fun fact: John Williams said in an interview that when he watched a rough cut of this movie, with no music, he got so choked up he had to step out. Spielberg followed him, and Williams said that he couldn’t compose for something so impactful and that Spielberg needed to find a better composer. Spielberg responded with this incredible backhanded compliment: “I know, but they’re all dead.”
This scene just makes the entire movie complete. After all the horrific events we have witnessed, we are reminded that none of this was fiction. It wasn’t perfectly accurate, but now we have felt the same fear as the holocaust survivors did. My personal favorite movie of all time.
Agree it completes the movie. But a movie can never make us feel the same fear those souls did. We were in theaters, our homes, watching it. If we felt uncomfortable, we could stop watching, go back to our lives. For them, it was their lives.
not even close to their fears. not even close. Every survivor will tell you this about schindlers list: "not brutal enough". This movie is a masterpiece and one of the most important movies in the history of cinematography. However tho Spielberg got awfully close to the atrocities commited, he never managed to grasp the full horror. Which to be fair is probably impossible to put into a movie.
I think what made this significant (final scene with the actors and the people they played paying tribute to Schindler at his grave) is that it serves as a reminder that this isn’t a Hollywood movie where somebody conceived the idea for a neat flick, it actually happened, it’s part of history. Incredibly profound.
I'm 71 years old and have seen scores and scores of wonderful, gut-wrenching films. However, to this day, from when I first saw that film in 1994, I have never weeped so much in a movie theatre. This remains Spielberg's masterpiece and the same goes for John Williams' hauntingly beautiful score.
@@digiribigiri2124 You are extremely kind, and I am now 72. I must admit this photo was taken when I was 68, but I am lucky to have been born with great genes. All three women in my family look many years younger than their age, and not one has had any kind of plastic surgery.
It's so touching to see the modern actors/actresses with the people they played playing tribute to Schindler. A really emotional scene and testament to the humanity of a person who showed great compassion to other human beings.
Absolutely extraordinary how it goes from a bio-pic in the past to almost like a documentary in the present day, especially with Liam Neeson putting flowers on the grave.
Liam Neeson placing the flower on the grave is so beautiful and meaningful. He understands what hardship Oskar went through and could only look at the grave afterwards out of respect for the man's deeds and for him doing a service for Oskar by showcasing the man's life on cinema.
I can not stop crying at this scene. My heart goes out to all those people persecuted, in the past and now in the present. Oskar was not a perfect man, but if we could all be more like him, this world would be a far better place.
The greatest ending to any film ever. Always makes me cry. A true masterpiece of a film. My mum’s cousin was in the regiment of the British Army that liberated one of the camps. Think it was Belsen. He never recovered from what he saw and it haunted him for the rest of his life although it also gave him reason to believe that the sacrifices he saw his comrades make was so worthwhile.
If any of the actors won an Academy Award later on in their career, I would think that lying a rock on Oskar's grave with the real person they portrayed would still be the biggest honor of their life.
well technically speaking, Jewish people lived in that region before the Palestinians lol. The Palestinians brutalised them first, and had done so since the 30s. In 1947 they started a civil war. After the horror of the holocaust, the Jewish people said enough and decided to determine their own destiny. Good. Libya also had their own holocaust and the only Jewish people that survived fled to the middle east as well. Many Jewish people were told not to go east, or west, where antisemitism and other hostilities were rampant. So they went south. The Palestinians could have decided to live in peace with the Jewish people, but they didn’t. They decided to retaliate and start a war. They could’ve come to terms with the Partition Plan but they chose to keep fighting. And war is what they've had for 80 years. Too bad.
I hope there will be a movie on the atrocities that the Japanese Imperial Army subjected Chinese peasants to in WW2. Kizu unit 731 and Nanking as a start.
I’m a Christian born in the 1970s from Southern England, yet this makes me weep helplessly. Why? Because this is the story of humanity triumphing against the greatest evil we had known. Up to that point…
He shall say: 'Hear, Israel: Today you are going into battle against your enemies. Do not be fainthearted or afraid; do not panic or be terrified by them. 4For the LORD your God is the one who goes with you to fight for you against your enemies to give you victory.
Schindler probably never fathom the endless impact he made, from his compassion. He probably could have saved one more, but for every child that is born from those descendent…IS one more life he saved.
This scene is unbelievable, also how Mrs Bau touches the grave to say thank you, I think I cried for an hour later, so touching, so tragic, but you survived, thank you Schindler, he decided to be a good person, r.i.p
I remember when Shindler's List came out there was not a dry eye in the whole theater not loud crying just tears rolling down peoples faces especially during the final scenes. That there are now over 8500 Shindlerjuden alive and living their lives in the U.S., Europe and Israel seems to be a fitting tribute to Oscar Shindler. Whoever saves one life saves the world entire.
@@lilaclemonadepop I have Schindler's List on DVD and I can confirm there's more than just the names on the epilogue that was missing on Netflix. There are title cards missing. Dates and context are not in the Netflix version as well. It's a shame because everyone deserves to see this movie and Netflix is supposed to be a great venue to introduce new audiences to Schindler's List so they can learn the horrors of the Holocaust.
I cry everytime I watch this ending. And to see the actual people that Schindler saved side by side with the people that portrayed them in the movie is especially poignant.
I am from Germany and I am hating that part of our past and nobody can forget what cruel and unhuman things are going on in this country from 1933 till 1945... my grandmother was 97 as she died and she told me so much about this time what makes me sad and angry.... and the worst part what she teached me... her last years give her the feeling like back than in some parts. that what i will never forget... -,- we all have to do our part that a time like this can't come back and will never rise up again.
Know that you bear no guilt in what happened, you inherit no sin from the despicable actions of those who came before. Those who did it, and those who allowed it, the fault is theirs and theirs alone. And they will be made to give account before Gott im Himmel for their wickedness. It's up to you, and me, and all of us, mein freund. The indifference of good men was what allowed such evils to take place. It is to all of us to ensure such horrors are remembered, and to ensure that they are never repeated. Never Again. Know the shame of your ancestors, yes, but know that it is not yours to carry, only the memory of it. Know better, and be better, that you may have pride in yourself.
It’s not acting, because if it were, it would be depicting Oskar putting roses on his own grave which doesn’t make sense. Therefore it’s Liam being himself.
One of the most beautiful movies I've ever seen. Very few films about the hollocaust come even close to this masterpiece. It shows us that hatred for our fellow people dies, and it dies horribly. There is no excusing what the nazi's did, but it's important to not be mad at current germany for such things. To form a scapegoat and antagonize are the very same tactics the nazi's used. It would be damn shameful to see it repeated. I'm not religious at all, but to any religious people reading, be they jew, muslim, christian or anything, may a higher power guide your path towards compassion. Preach love, compassion and open mindedness. Especially towards other religious groups. Once you see that they're all people, just like you and I, you'll find that they aren't so bad. We are all humans. Amen, آمين, and אמן ❤❤❤
This scene is hauntingly powerful…the music, the looks on everyone’s faces, the fact that survivors are walking amongst the cast…even more powerful in that it is one of the few scenes to be entirely in color.
The first time I watched this movie, roundabout the end of high school beginning of university in the early 2010s, I knew it by reputation as one of the most powerful and visceral examinations of the Holocaust in film history. While I was deeply moved by the film, I wasn’t necessarily caught off guard. I was primarily a history student, and so I was no stranger to the horrors of the holocaust. But this final scene, the transition from black and white film of the actors to color film of the survivors, was so incredibly moving and well done, I immediately burst into tears, I couldn’t stop weeping for minutes. I’m not sure a film will ever be made again as powerful as Schindler’s List.
Passion of the Christ, the direct reason why the Jews were persecuted in the first place. The tribes were scattered after the nation rejected their Messiah and the temple was destroyed in 70 AD. God is still pursuing his people and saving them where he can. Raising up people like Oscar Schindler to help them. The devil always raises up his evil agents, but God will always raise up his people to stand against.
The horrors that these people witnessed....... I cannot even imagine..... seeing them pay respect to the man (A Nazi no less) who ensured their survival is just so touching....
My great grandma was a prisoner of KL Stutthoff. She survived this hell. When Red Army with acomplise of 1 Polish Army on East came to camp she met soviet soldier and lost her mind. She woke up at hospital
It blows my mind that so many people around the world believe this never happened. Millions of innocents, mostly children and old people unable to be exploited in the labor camps, were robbed of their precious lives. May we never forget the crimes committed in the past.
I don't think there will ever be a movie ending that is able to hit me harder than "Schindler's List". The liberation of over 1,200 Polish Jews walking freely to a nearby town, the execution of Amon Goeth, witnessing the tragic failures/events that had hit Schindler after the war, the real Schindler Jews coming to pay their respects to Schindler's grave and finally Liam Neeson two roses on Schindler's grave. As difficult as it is to dive into the hauntingly nightmarish environment of the movie, it is an essential film to view for all people. A simply flawless movie.
The scene where they place the rocks on Schindler's grave broke me emotionally than any other scene in this movie. That was how much Schindler meant to these people.
how cute Emile is shes smiling despite having lost Oskar... its really amazing seing everyone gather, their actors and actual survivors from the his workshop place a stone on his grave... a truly heartwarming yet sad moment that the actions spoke louder then words!!
I met a number of survivors when I was volunteering on a kibbutz in the late 90's. They had no hate in them. I'll understand one day how. Am Yisrael Chai
They put the rocks on Schindler's grave as a way of saying thanks to the man who saved their lives and Spielberg arranged this as both a special ending to the film and a personal message
I know it makes sense not including him but having actor Ralph Fiennes accompany one of the real survivors to Schindler's grave among Ben Kingsley would have been a nice touch just to differentiate the actor's compassion from the Evil character he played in the movie. Hope i made sense
We watched this in freshman year of high school, and I managed to hold myself together until the end when Schindler breaks down in guilt of having not saved more. I pulled myself together a little bit but then broke again seeing this tribute to the real life man.
For some reason the "click" of the stones being placed on the grave gets me so hard watching this again today. Stone against stone, eternity against eternity. Schindler may have gone to his final rest, but each "click" is an entire world filled with people that he had saved from untimely deaths and non-existence. "Whoever saves one man..."
I write movie reviews on IMDB. I am editing one for Schindler's List, which is one of my top 10 favorite movies. This is the conclusion of my review: "This is a powerful film that will leave a great impact on you. It should never be forgotten. If all but a few movies are erased from human memory, let Schindler's List be one that remains. "
I've seen this hundreds of times. But every single time, when I see Rebeka Bau gently caressing his tomb, I break down in tears. That, to me, is the most beautiful and most heartbreaking second in all of movie history.
I've never heard men crying in a theater before but none of us seeing this movie expected this ending. I will never forget seeing these people walking next to those that played them in the film.
The actors meeting up with their real characters to place their stones on Schindler’s grave in honor of him makes this one of the most unique movie endings I’ve ever seen in my life
When I was in prison in Ireland in 2015 there was a visit by a holocaust survivor. Now I had a relative working there and was trusted and liked. So they brought him to my cell during my lunch and I thought was just a quick hello. I asked would he like tea and he let me make him a cup. He sat on my bunk and I offered him a biscuit... He broke it in half and shared it with me. I immediately got teary eyed. He didn't have much English but we sat there and had tea and spoke a bit, the officers keeping a respectable distance outside. I wont go into what he said but I ended up crying. I wont pretend to be a hard man. This little old hugged me and told me not to be sad because one day I'd be free and happy like him. He made a joke about us being bald and left. His handler asked me to write a she message and my name in this little book he had. It was an unforgettable experience. I was detoxing from heroin and methadone and was emotional and tired and full of angst and worry but those 8-10 mins sitting and eating that half biscuit, because he made sure I did, that was his thing he wanted to share, was incredibly peaceful and transcendental. I'm sure a ton of people will say I'm lying and ok, it's the Internet and unfortunately I don't know his name but in summer, July I think, 2015 he visited Clover Hill prison in Dublin. I'm sure I was picked for that, I mean he did a talk and all and the tour, but because staff knew my relative and I got a long well with them all. He was in my cell on E landing. Wherever he is now, bless him. And everyone who survived and who didn't. Lest we forget. I don't usually tell people that story but seeing this just brought it all back.
That man putting the flowers on Schindler's grave was Liam Neeson. What an amazing movie.
I'd love to know what he was thinking as he stood at that grave.
How do u know it’s Liam Neeson? The camera is so far away at the end that you can barely see who it is!
@@olgameow3804 It's been confirmed by the makers of the movie, I think. (And probably Liam himself.) :-)
Olga Tsentner as a kid, I just automatically assumed it was Liam...it made sense for it to be him🤷🏽♀️
@@olgameow3804 The actors that played certain people walk right with them.
"Whoever saves one life saves the world entire."
It can also kill lots of people though.
During World War I, a British soldier named Henry Tandey found a 29-year-old wounded German corporal. In an act of battlefield mercy, Tandey decides to spare the German and left him alone. Who was that German Corporal? Why, none other than Adolf Hitler.
@@michaelsong5555 true? wowww!
@@davidschwartz6380 Yeah. Life can be cruel.
David Schwartz Tragically, yes it’s true:
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@MoezMedia 98 and where do you think that line comes from? It was written a thousand years after...
the most powerful ending in film history
I'd say that The Godfather Part II and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King are also up there
George Linford Yh this movie and Godfather part 2 are the only movies I’ve ever cried watching. Very powerful.
Schindler’s List is easily the most powerful ending of all time.
My personal favorite is The Rock, where Nic Cage rides off into the sunset with his new wife and uncovers the microfilm that Mason gave to him with all of the dirty secrets of the US government. I also love T2 ending with Arnold giving a thumbs up 👍🏻
Keith Bittinger I agree with you .
The Searchers, with Wayne in the doorway. Unbeatable.
The diectorial choice to show Liam Neeson only in shadow or in a long shot is inspired, as if it's the ghost of Oskar Schindler standing at his own grave. BRILLIANT.
My Uncle who would be 99 years old this year was one of the soldiers tasked with helping to liberate the camps. He never got over the horrors he saw there. Every time I hear a Holocaust denier I shake my head in disbelief. RIP Uncle Curt.
I saw archive footage of the concentration camps they showed at the Nuremburg trials. I don't even have a word in my vocabulary to describe how awful it was.
Both of my Grandfather's were in the US Army, and both liberated separate Concentration Camps. It broke my mother's father. Neither could talk about it. It's still unbelievable, and Eisenhower was right. Take as many pictures as you can, because one day, someone isn't going to believe this happened.
As a granddaughter of a World War II hero, I say thank you for your grandfather’s service; my grandfather fought in the Army during the second World War as well.
I couldn't imagine the horror on those G.I.'s faces coming across such barbarism
My Great-grandfather was a British Soldier in both the First and Second world wars towards the end of the second he was tasked with commanding a unit that had to identify the dead at Bergen Belson concentration camp. He never spoke of what he saw, it was only many years after he died that a letter was sent to his son (my grandfather) from one of the soldiers that had been under his command that we learned the truth. Of how they had had to clear entire fields carpeted with bodies, of tiny huts with the bodies of hundreds stuffed in. The letter was also a posthumous thank you to my Great-grandfather for his leadership which helped the young soldiers stay sane in the mist of all the horror they were seeing.
I'm very proud of you: Major Lancelot Fitzgerald Royal Irish Fusiliers.
The part that really moves me each time is how Rebeka Bau patted his grave as a thank you gesture.
Omg! I burst into tears when I saw that 😭👍
@@marykay8587 i do everytime i watch this scene. i know it will happen every time. yet i can never hold tears back then
It is so simple but so overwhelmingly powerful
That and the look his wife gives the grave as she is wheeled away
Wapakwanis mihko yep
Seeing all the people Schindler saved at the grave was emotional enough to break anyone...
But seeing his wife, now old and in a wheelchair...
That broke me beyond repair, because that right there is true love.
After all the years since he left Emilie in Argentina, she never stopped caring about Oskar. Not even after he died in 1974.
And remember: this scene is the first time Emilie saw the grave of her husband... after 19 long years since he died.
P.S.: yes, that is his real wife, Emilie Schindler, she died in 2001. Spielberg himself arranged that she could travel to Israel to the grave of her husband so that she could finally see her husband's final resting place. Her exact words were: "At last we meet again ... I have received no answer, my dear, I do not know why you abandoned me... But what not even your death or my old age can change is that we are still married, this is how we are before God.
I have forgiven you everything, everything."
I was hoping for such a comment. Thank you.
It is truly saddening.
I believe that she and Oskar are together again in heaven, happy to be together again.
Maybe Oskar left his wife because he felt ashamed. He gave up his wealth to save so many people and he didn't have anything left over to show for it. He tried several times to start over but failed each time. He probably felt like a failure as a husband and a provider for his wife.
But that's just a guess on my part.
Also the way John William's gorgeous score comes in when she's on screen was beyond perfect
@@kittylover62 That didn't mean that he stopped loving her.
She was probably on his mind at all times.
Truly ashamed that in life, Schindler lost it all, his wealth, his power, his prestige, yet he is remembered today as the man who saved thousands of Jews from concentration camps. Even if it took his entire wealth to save the Jews, he was unable to regain the wealth that made him a successful businessman. However, one can say that in return, he earned more wealth than one could possibly ever gain by garnering the Jews he saved, a chance to live a life free from Nazi persecution. In the end, it was the Jews that he saved that ended up saving him after WWII, despite them themselves robbed from the atrocities of Nazi racism, they still remembered that one German, that one Nazi member, that one man who went against his regime's ideology, who still had a heart, mind, and consciousness of a human being.
Not all Nazis were evil, a lot of people joined the Nazi party as political maneuvers rather than out of loyalty.
@@mragunathan1627 Um, what? If you think America is the center of racism and hatred, you must have never heard of Africa or the Middle East.
That is true that some people join the Nazi party in order to move up socially like Schindler or pursue their advance in science like von Braun, but most Nazi members join out of ideology that somehow pure blood Germans were meant to be the master race. It really hard to discuss who joined the party out of X, Y, or Z reasons because a majority of party member documentation is sadly lost forever when the Nazis began burning every document that could incriminate them post-war.
Not to tarnish his name, however, for all intents and purposes, he was war profiteer. His wealth deepened on the war continuing. They reference in a scene earlier in the movie where Oskar asks Itzhak if there should be any issues with his money, where Itzhak replied, "the war could end." Morally, if he kept his wealth, it would have been blood money. So he used his blood money for good. God/Yahweh will bless him for all eternity (for Christians) or until the Jewish Messiah returns (for my Jewish folks) 🙏🏽🙏🏽
Germany is not the leader of the free world!! I’m English and that is freedom enough for me!!
The act of them leaving stones, a very meaningful Jewish tradition, on his gravestone even though he was Catholic speaks so much by itself. They were honouring him with a piece of their culture and religion. It's beautiful and heartbreaking at the same time 🤍
They honored him with much more then that. Schindler is buried on Mount Zion, Jerusalem.
He was also a Nazi, which makes the honor even more profound.
What is " leaving stones" the symbol of?
@@bahars305 , a momento of where you live in the world.
Military gravestones has coins left by other Veterans
@@ritathomas3926 oh thank you🙏
I'm a Rosner. My great uncles Henry and Leo are portrayed in the film along with others. I'm very fortunate to be alive today. This makes me tear up everytime. I have to make the best out of this lifetime. I owe it to Oskar
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I'm German. And I love You❤
I hope you’re doing the best you can.
My mother was a holocaust survivor. Only at the end of her long life she talled us her Story.
The ending where we see them placing stones on Schindler’s grave never fails to reduce me to tears. Even after watching it countless times.
And John Williams and Itzhak Perlman add to it .
I remember watching this in high school. There was so much sobbing.
Yep
You are good person.
Yeah Schindler deserves a great reward like that for noble deeds, God bless him.
Liam Neeson standing by Schindler's grave is truely one one of the most meta moments in cinema history
Yes
How to be extremely meta and deadly serious at the same time
Not only did this man save 1100 lives, he saved quite possibly as many bloodlines that are still alive today.
As of January 2023, There are estimated to be 8,000 people ( ether a survivor or descendant ) who are alive because of Oskar
As of January 2023, There are about 8,000 people ( ether a survivor or a descendant)
@@cameroncampbell6635can you show me the source please I'm curious where you got the information of that
The fact Liam Neeson puts the rose there is so beautifully perfected. Spielberg truly nailed it. One of my favorite movies from him
My sentiments exactly.
Liam Neeson was definitely paying his respects to a man who saved many lives.
Watched this scene again and got a shiver down my back. So powerful
Interestingly enough, when Spielberg decided to make the movie (after reading the book, which, when he heard about it, thought that it must be fictional), he also decided to not take any salary for making it. His thinking was that it was going to be a commercial flop, and he didn't want it to lose any more money that it was already going to.. he was making the movie out of principal... little did he know.. .
@@BillinHungary also, he got paid for Jurassic Park, which was a success. Spielberg was exhausted after 1993, because not only did he direct jurassic park that year, but he started filming Schindler's list when JP was in post production. It was well worth it in the end.
@@BillinHungary I thought his reasoning for rejecting a paycheck is that it would be “blood money”.
Currently sobbing. He saved so much people and it’s insane how people say the Holocaust never happened.
It really saddens me how some people are in denial, Anti Semite Denial
You are sobbing because you are a decent person. But please understand, Holcaust denial is not the act of an insane person. Just as Nazis themselves were and are not insane- at least for the most part. To say Nazis are insane is to excuse them, because insanity is a legal defense for murder. And certainly no more insane than the average two-bit murderer who cannot use insanity as a defense. We may think it requires an insane person to participate in a genocide as horrific as the Holocaust,, but the opposite is closer to the truth; the larger the scale of the machinery of murder, the easier it is for humans to tolerate it and even pull the levers. We all seem to support the concept of war- the ultimate scheme for the greatest mass murders ever- and we still think of ourselves as perfectly sane. Nazis then and today (and anyone who claims the Holocaust never happened is a Nazi at heart) are as sane as anyone else who holds unshakable religious convictions. Nazis aren't insane- just plain mean. And they are mean because they are angry, frustrated, failures in life, or marriage, or parenting, or whatever, and they almost all experience horrendous and / or physically brutal upbringings- just as most small-scale murderers do.
Naziism is a form of religion thinking. We have all seen that religion can accomplish great good in this world. We've also seen (on 9/11 and many other dates) that religion can unleash unspeakable evil. Like many religions, Naziism holds to a vengeful, all powerful, unapproachable , and unquestioned leader at its head. It is based on laws and tenets and ancient legends from the mists of time which are frankly preposterous when viewed objectively, but which must be obeyed without question or even the slightest doubt. And Naziism is ancient, as old as Europe itself. It grew out of a deep-seated, medieval, superstitious hatred for Jews by Christians- a hatred that was endemic not just in Germany, but all across Europe. Like any other religious person, a Nazi's innermost convictions were and are engrained in them from childhood, often through the intentional or unintentional influences of a church. While some Nazis thought of Hitler as a god-man (just as many Christians think of Trump today),even the most ardent Nazis did not believe in the divinity of Hitler. Evil itself was their real deity- evil and hate, greed and insensitivity, and rape and torture and unspeakable brutality, and Hitler allowed them to at it s never before. You could say the "devil" made them do it, but that would be to excuse their culpability as human beings. The Holocaust was perpetrated by sane but utterly ruthless human beings who were 100% certain of their convictions (Amon Goeth went cooly and calmly to the gallows, saluting Adolf Hitler all the way). These Nazi atrocities could never have been carried out on such a scale otherwise- and they came perilously close to conquering the world. They may have lost their war, but their movement lives on against all odds, as religions tend to do. And they are at it again, this time in America. There is a direct lineage between Naziism and the KKK, the biker cult, Proud Boys, MAGA, and today's warped and twisted version of the Republican Party- it is all part of the same white Christian nationalist movement that began growing in Ronald Reagan's day and has swept Donald Trump to the brink of a fascist dictatorship. Sorry, don't get me started...
What breaks my heart. Look at the actors who played the kids. Those were the ages of the kids he saved, look how small they are, look how young they are and they were saved by him. The heartbreak of thinking of all the kids that he couldn't save, the people who weren't saved.
The scene where he breaks down wishing he could have saved one more person is the one that never fails to make me cry.
I am German.
When I was a lot younger, my class went through the local history with a regional historian to develop a deeper understanding of the local impact of the Nazi regime.
I will never forget the single surviving photo of a young girl who was my age at the time, from a local village which still exists to his day.
She was beautiful.
They murdered her in one of the camps after deporting her and her family in 1942.
Not even a grave of her exists, apart from the usual memorials ( memorial doesn’t do the German term justice, we call it a "Mahnmal", "mahnen" is a verb that translates closest to admonish, so these are not simply monuments to mark important events of the past but intended as constant reminder to be aware of it and to not repeat it, almost exclusively used in the context of WW2 ).
Everytime I look into the history of the time, concerning the Shoah, I always think about her.
When Corona is over, I wanna travel to see Jerusalem. And I will visit the catholic cemetary of Zion and place a stone in remembrance and thankfulness for Oskar Schindler.
You will be most welcome Sedna. Shalom from our Southern Border.
i guess we both have a same thought.
@@kittylover62 I am German though…
@@Sedna063 Sorry! I didn't know! I didn't mean to jump to conclusions! Your English was well-written and I just assumed...
Please don't judge me... -_-'
I want to do this too, I went to krakow a few years ago. It was emotional
One of the most poetic film endings I've ever seen. Scenes like this are why cinema matters.
There's something about Mrs. Emilie Schindler's part that just absolutely broke my heart. The smile as she gets to pay her respects, but it fades into sadness really quickly as she's rolling away and still looking at the grave with deep grief. That shit tore me into a trillion pieces and I was already torn up thousands and millions of times throughout this movie.
That broke me some inside.
Still, she knew that she would see him again in heaven
Yes, she was sad when she visited his grave, but she knew that she would see him again in heaven.
Mrs. Schindler might have thought, "Please wait for me, Oskar. We will be together again by then."
My apologies for going on like that.
Had to get it off my chest.
that was her first time visiting his grave. when he left her in 1953, they never saw each other again till this moment.
"At last we meet again ... I have received no answer, my dear, I do not know why you abandoned me ... But what not even your death or my old age can change is that we are still married, this is how we are before God. I have forgiven you everything, everything ..."
That last shot. Just Liam alone, far from the camera, putting a rose on the real Oskar’s grave, the one note and the subtitles.
That… is pain. Pure and excruciating pain.
I’m glad Spielberg made this film. I don’t think any other director at the time could have pulled off what he did, and brought the story of Oskar Schindler to the public’s attention.
@@to_co_jest_prawdziwe Korczak is rather overrated. Obviously Spielberg was influenced by the film, but Schindler's List is just so much better. The cinematography is atrocious and the acting is stiff. Korczak is most definitely an artistic failure that at the very least offers filmmakers tips on how to correctly create a film. At least it's still an extremely powerful film.
But there is no way you could possibly argue that "Korczak is a far better movie." Korczak's production is so bad I laughed a couple times at the pure garbage I was enduring when I for a brief moment realized someone actually made this.
I just hope that someone makes another story about Janusz Korczak. Hopefully someone competent. Like seriously, how is Wajda better than Spielberg?
@@dh5e6drdrhdgsrh92 Well. Hollywood movies have different demands from European cinema...In general Wajda is Better director if you look at all movies he made...Diamond and Ashes is his movie too... He is not a direct who could make shits like Jurassic Park
@@dh5e6drdrhdgsrh92 and Wajda would never make movie about a German business man who made fortune from forced labour- like Schindler... that's disaster
@@to_co_jest_prawdziwe idk. some people have different tastes. I'll admit, I didn't cry in Schindler's list. Yet for some reason i did in Korczak. Yes, Korczak is a much more powerful film. However, Schindler's list is better made. It looks like a movie. It's somewhat enjoyable to watch, although the subject matter is obviously not that fun.
Korczak is heartbreaking. But Schindler's list just doesn't seem like an amatuer made it.
Schindler's list is good. i mean at the very least, appreciate what it did to expand the public's knowledge of the holocaust or something. Anything that doesn't glorify the holocaust makes me give it some respect.
@@dh5e6drdrhdgsrh92 You are very good person...It is my fault because I started that discussion in valueing which movie is better and who is better director...as you said- we all should keep respect over Holocaust...God bless you
My grandparents told me that when they went to see this film in the theater, you couldn't hear well the score in this scene 'cause there was a lot of crying noises.
I saw this when I was carrying my daughter all the cinema was in tears from the start to the finish including myself 😢😢😢 you could hear a pin drop all through the movie
My mum said the same thing. She said that when she was leaving the cinema everyone had tears rolling down their face. I don’t blame em.
@MKS Are you saying that the film is pathetic?.
@@Tumbleweedpassingby It's a mistranslation. 'Pathetic' used to be a generic term for something extremely emotional (see Beethoven's Pathetique sonata or Tchaikovsky's Pathetique symphony).
@@poohslosteyes264 thanks, gonna check it out.
I wonder what may the actors have felt being there with the real person they performed un the movie.
To me it had to be humbling and a revelation. The actors obviously know about what happened, studied it in school. But imagine standing next to a person who saw it, lived it, probably still had nightmares about it.
@Quaker 2019 What is your point? I'm sure those two would have something to say now that it's been 30 years.
@Quaker 2019 You really should examine your own comment before calling someone else's stupid. Anyone capable of critical thinking would be able to comprehend that I and the original commenter were referring to the *ADULT* performers.
Not to mention genius, the movie was released in 1993, we are now in 2021. That's 28 years, closer to 30 than 24.
Quit now while you're behind, lest you look stupid again.
@Quaker 2019 must be hard being this dumb
@Quaker 2019 It's been 4 months quacker. And the truth is you still look just as douchie. Let it the fuck go.
Fun fact: seven years after shooting the movie, a list was found in a house in Frankfurt in which Oscar Schindler had lived.
This was the *real* Schindler‘s List.
What have they done with the List?
@@pyramidhead8659 according to the german wikipedia site about Oskar Schindler, the original list was sold to a private bidder. against the resistance of Emile Schindler, who wanted it to be an exhibit in s museum.
@@TheColinChapman I don't blame Mrs. Schindler for wanting to have the List in a museum.
It's a piece of history that should be preserved for countless generations.
@@pyramidhead8659 agree
I think it's physically impossible to watch this without crying
Not true, I didn’t cry, tears aren’t necessary to express the emotions you’re feeling
@@Winskl9010 right
@@Winskl9010 *without feeling great sadness.
I could watch this movie 10 times in a row and I still cry
I think you're right n
Can we take a moment to recognise Poldek Pfefferberg at 4:10 without whose untiring efforts this movie would not have been possible? He is the reason why Schindlers Ark became a book.
Could you explain to me what he did? Thank you!
@@tl9585 He spent 30 years attempting to have the story of Schindler known. It was by chance that Thomas Kinnealy came into his shop and due to speaking with Leo agreed to write the novel Schindler' Ark in 1980. Leo then wrote Speilberg urging to make a film based on the novel. He was quoted as saying that Schindler gave him his life and in return he hoped to give him immortality.
@@stephw1702 you have successfully made my day. Thank you!
The actor who played leo was an acting teacher at an acting course I took!
'Schindler gave me my life, I tried to give him immortality' was what he said when asked why he did it.
This final scene brings so much welling emotion to the heart as we see the Schindler Jews, most of them accompanied by the actors who portrayed them, laying stones on Schindler's grave in Mount Zion. It's touching to see at 3:10 Rebeka Bau place her fingers on the gravestone in gratitude. 4:20 is touching as we see Itzak Stern's widow accompanied by Sir Ben Kingsley (whose performance was equal to Liam Neeson's). 4:35 is the most heartfelt, both warming and breaking, as Mrs. Emilie Schindler arrives. She spoke of her husband's abandonment, and only until after his death and the filming here, was she with him again; she spoke only of forgiveness and that she would love him forever. 5:20 closes this emotional sequence with Liam Neeson placing the pair of roses atop the grave. His performance was perfect in portraying the man as he was: He was human like all of us. He made mistakes, had weaknesses, but in the end, because he saved all those innocent people, he was a good man. God bless you, Oskar Schindler.
🇺🇸 English: Thank you, Oskar Schindler 😔👍
🇩🇪 German: Danke dir, Oskar Schindler ✝️🎗
🇮🇱 Hebrew: Toe-dah, Oskar Schindler ♥️✡
I loved how they had the actors escorting them through the ceremony. Very beautiful...
The only member of the Nazi party who failed to extinguish that one true light within his heart. He should be remembered for all time for what he did. It wasn't for honour or glory, medals or recognition. He simply did it because it was right. The generations of his Jews will forever be his legacy. Rest in paradise Oskar Schindler.
@@herrmajor2310He wasn't the only Nazi to do so. One was Helmut Kleinicke, who saved hundreds of Jewish lives during the Holocaust. After the war he raised his only child, a daughter, with his wife. He never accepted any rewards or communicated with any of the Jews he saved. He told his daughter that he only saved a few lives (he saved hundreds of Jewish lives!). After he saw the German broadcast of the American movie The Holocaust, he suffered a stroke and died a few months later. When Helmut Kleinicke was finally honored his daughter said that he felt guilty that he didn't save enough lives, much like Schindler did. Look him up.
OMG!!! I never realized that each actor was next to the person they portrayed!!!
I just realized that after watching a review
Please don’t say omg.
@@oz6226 OMG, why not?
@@theprettyaverage9899 OMG to WHO? You or God? And don’t EVEN say God, because I’m pretty positive you didn’t have coffee with him this morning so you don’t know anything about how HE feels! But ya know, just out of curiosity, what is it exactly you do? Roam around UA-cam doing nothing but checking comment after comment after comment, anxiously waiting to see if you can catch somebody saying OMG, just to correct them? Wasted endeavor TRUST ME!!! There are FAR more important things in this world that urgently need attending to with God, then you wasting your breath pointing out absolutely ridiculous and meaningless and frivolous things!!!!
@@louisp.3332 I never said any of that and I dont do that. You asked why and I said why.
“I could’ve done more” and this scene was when I WEPT.
2:05 That shot fucking broke me. I never cry at movies, never. That was the closest I ever got. Throughout the whole movie you see so much misery, so much pain, so much evil. But despite the realistic nature of the movie, it is still just a movie, so it doesn't quite become real.
But the transition hits you like a bag of bricks. It is real, it happened, these people lived through all that misery and pain and evil. This isn't just a horrific fantasy of a twisted screenwriter, it is the cruel reality of the world we live in.
Yes, however, Oskar Schindler, operating in the middle of Nazi hell, fooled the murderers and saved many lives. In the midst of madness there was decency and there still is. The monsters get the headlines but once in a while, so do the good guys.
Honestly, it would break anyone.
It even broke me inside.
If a human being can't cry at this there is something seriously wrong with them.
@@mrsj1417 Not necessarily. Some people are hardened by what they know about the Holocaust. My grandparents were Holocaust survivors. Some of them survived Auschwitz and Buchenwald. The stories they told me were so horrible that seeing a film like this, which is as sad and moving as it truly is (it's a masterpiece for sure) pales in comparison to the horrors that have been passed down through oral storytelling.
My paternal grandmother was a shell of a person, the most miserable person I ever met. Because four of her siblings, and both of her parents, were killed in concentration camps. She and one sister survived. The sister moved to South Africa and got married there and had a child. Unfortunately, she died in labour. Then, her husband could not deal with the grief and killed himself. So my grandmother ending up bringing up that child. Multiple layers of tragedy there.
I cry every single time.
4:46 she can't stop looking at his grave :'(
Yea, that was his wife.
That was the wife
I feel so bad for her they ended up on the run and bankrupt and Oskar abandoned her and she never saw him ever again, she died completely alone and had to be monitored 24 7 by police in case of retaliation and her only surviving relative was a niece
Good point they synchronized it with the climax of the theme song.
Gives it an even bigger impact on the viewer.
@@theyoungwolf9852 well I wouldn't call it abandonment seeing as though he died
I don't believe that there will ever be a more fitting piece of music for a film than John Williams score for Schindler's list. Beautiful, haunting, sad.. What a magnificent and important film that Spielberg directed with excellence .
Fun fact: John Williams said in an interview that when he watched a rough cut of this movie, with no music, he got so choked up he had to step out. Spielberg followed him, and Williams said that he couldn’t compose for something so impactful and that Spielberg needed to find a better composer. Spielberg responded with this incredible backhanded compliment: “I know, but they’re all dead.”
This scene just makes the entire movie complete. After all the horrific events we have witnessed, we are reminded that none of this was fiction. It wasn’t perfectly accurate, but now we have felt the same fear as the holocaust survivors did. My personal favorite movie of all time.
Agree it completes the movie. But a movie can never make us feel the same fear those souls did. We were in theaters, our homes, watching it. If we felt uncomfortable, we could stop watching, go back to our lives.
For them, it was their lives.
@@buddyfett1341 so sad Stauffenberg was the chance to change History
not even close to their fears. not even close. Every survivor will tell you this about schindlers list: "not brutal enough". This movie is a masterpiece and one of the most important movies in the history of cinematography. However tho Spielberg got awfully close to the atrocities commited, he never managed to grasp the full horror. Which to be fair is probably impossible to put into a movie.
...a true hero is not a man who takes lives, but one who saves them.
Rest in Peace, Oskar Schindler. You were possibly the best of us.
I think what made this significant (final scene with the actors and the people they played paying tribute to Schindler at his grave) is that it serves as a reminder that this isn’t a Hollywood movie where somebody conceived the idea for a neat flick, it actually happened, it’s part of history. Incredibly profound.
I'm 71 years old and have seen scores and scores of wonderful, gut-wrenching films. However, to this day, from when I first saw that film in 1994, I have never weeped so much in a movie theatre. This remains Spielberg's masterpiece and the same goes for John Williams' hauntingly beautiful score.
No way you are 71 years old lady😮
@@digiribigiri2124 You are extremely kind, and I am now 72. I must admit this photo was taken when I was 68, but I am lucky to have been born with great genes. All three women in my family look many years younger than their age, and not one has had any kind of plastic surgery.
@@jacquieharris389 best of luck for you and all around you,young-looking lady🤞
@@digiribigiri2124 Thanks so much. I wish the same to you. 🙏
It's so touching to see the modern actors/actresses with the people they played playing tribute to Schindler. A really emotional scene and testament to the humanity of a person who showed great compassion to other human beings.
Absolutely extraordinary how it goes from a bio-pic in the past to almost like a documentary in the present day, especially with Liam Neeson putting flowers on the grave.
Liam Neeson placing the flower on the grave is so beautiful and meaningful. He understands what hardship Oskar went through and could only look at the grave afterwards out of respect for the man's deeds and for him doing a service for Oskar by showcasing the man's life on cinema.
Wait. I thought it was unsolved!
I can not stop crying at this scene. My heart goes out to all those people persecuted, in the past and now in the present. Oskar was not a perfect man, but if we could all be more like him, this world would be a far better place.
The greatest ending to any film ever. Always makes me cry. A true masterpiece of a film.
My mum’s cousin was in the regiment of the British Army that liberated one of the camps. Think it was Belsen. He never recovered from what he saw and it haunted him for the rest of his life although it also gave him reason to believe that the sacrifices he saw his comrades make was so worthwhile.
@Jason Kounanis Thank you. That’s very kind.
If any of the actors won an Academy Award later on in their career, I would think that lying a rock on Oskar's grave with the real person they portrayed would still be the biggest honor of their life.
The greatest ending in cinematic history. Always breaks me into pieces.
That's the intent.
It succeeds.
I humbly apologize if I came off a bit insensitive, for it's not my intention to do so.
Please forgive me.
Do people get now, in 2024, why Israel needs to exist? This movie helped explain why.
🤡
well technically speaking, Jewish people lived in that region before the Palestinians lol. The Palestinians brutalised them first, and had done so since the 30s. In 1947 they started a civil war. After the horror of the holocaust, the Jewish people said enough and decided to determine their own destiny. Good. Libya also had their own holocaust and the only Jewish people that survived fled to the middle east as well. Many Jewish people were told not to go east, or west, where antisemitism and other hostilities were rampant. So they went south. The Palestinians could have decided to live in peace with the Jewish people, but they didn’t. They decided to retaliate and start a war. They could’ve come to terms with the Partition Plan but they chose to keep fighting. And war is what they've had for 80 years. Too bad.
I would like Jews and Palestinians to be United and not enemies
Yess finally
Wonderful final shot of Liam Neeson placing flowers on the grave. Even though it's a very distant shot, we still know who it is. An amazing movie!
You can see the love in every persons eyes as they look at Schindler's grave. I can only imagine how great a man he was.
I hope there will be a movie on the atrocities that the Japanese Imperial Army subjected Chinese peasants to in WW2. Kizu unit 731 and Nanking as a start.
TheNightMan ‘The Flowers of War’ is a good one. It’s about a convent in Nanking whos workers protected its students from the Japanese.
search about John Rabe...a Nazi who saved Chinese civilians in the Nanking Massacre...its bizzare and China called him the their Schlinder
SentientBurrito - The Flowers of War dealt with the Rape of Nanking... also a very powerful picture
The Man Behind The Sun depicts the atrocities of Unit 731. Warning, it’s disturbing!
@@spaceycaveco.698 its fucking disturbing indeed...you remember the bowel explosion? yeah
I’m a Christian born in the 1970s from
Southern England, yet this makes me weep helplessly. Why?
Because this is the story of humanity triumphing against the greatest evil we had known. Up to that point…
In my opinion every Class should watch this film. So nobody forgets what horrors they have gone threw.
especially in these days... :(
@@kayleighdw agreed 100%
He shall say: 'Hear, Israel: Today you are going into battle against your enemies. Do not be fainthearted or afraid; do not panic or be terrified by them. 4For the LORD your God is the one who goes with you to fight for you against your enemies to give you victory.
So glad my grade 9 and grade 11 teachers made us watch this movie.
What about all the other genocides? Why does this one get so much attention
Schindler probably never fathom the endless impact he made, from his compassion. He probably could have saved one more, but for every child that is born from those descendent…IS one more life he saved.
Well, he got in a endless depressed state because he thought he didn't do enough.
He couldn't accept it.
This scene is unbelievable, also how Mrs Bau touches the grave to say thank you, I think I cried for an hour later, so touching, so tragic, but you survived, thank you Schindler, he decided to be a good person, r.i.p
What an ending. Hearing "Yerushalayim Shel Zahav" had me in tears. Am Yisrael Chai.
Am Israel Chai
Am Yisrael Chai!
I remember when Shindler's List came out there was not a dry eye in the whole theater not loud crying just tears rolling down peoples faces especially during the final scenes. That there are now over 8500 Shindlerjuden alive and living their lives in the U.S., Europe and Israel seems to be a fitting tribute to Oscar Shindler. Whoever saves one life saves the world entire.
the names were missing on netflix :(
Turn on audio commentary
No option to do that, I was so confused when I watched the ending cause it has none of the epilogue text it's supposed to
Lilac Lemonade I just finished watching today I didn’t see that option either. Great movie though.
True that 🙏
@@lilaclemonadepop I have Schindler's List on DVD and I can confirm there's more than just the names on the epilogue that was missing on Netflix. There are title cards missing. Dates and context are not in the Netflix version as well. It's a shame because everyone deserves to see this movie and Netflix is supposed to be a great venue to introduce new audiences to Schindler's List so they can learn the horrors of the Holocaust.
Amon Goeth was literally clinically insane before being executed. He was arrested while being a patient in a sanatorium lol
Y'know what the nazi's did to the mentally ill 😌
He always was
Their story will never be forgotten through their descendants.
& this film
I cry everytime I watch this ending. And to see the actual people that Schindler saved side by side with the people that portrayed them in the movie is especially poignant.
There's no shame in crying.
This scene has that effect on many people on many levels.
Even I was affected.
Stern: “Whoever saves one life saves the world entire.”
Itzhak's right.
I am from Germany and I am hating that part of our past and nobody can forget what cruel and unhuman things are going on in this country from 1933 till 1945... my grandmother was 97 as she died and she told me so much about this time what makes me sad and angry.... and the worst part what she teached me... her last years give her the feeling like back than in some parts. that what i will never forget... -,- we all have to do our part that a time like this can't come back and will never rise up again.
Know that you bear no guilt in what happened, you inherit no sin from the despicable actions of those who came before. Those who did it, and those who allowed it, the fault is theirs and theirs alone. And they will be made to give account before Gott im Himmel for their wickedness. It's up to you, and me, and all of us, mein freund. The indifference of good men was what allowed such evils to take place. It is to all of us to ensure such horrors are remembered, and to ensure that they are never repeated. Never Again. Know the shame of your ancestors, yes, but know that it is not yours to carry, only the memory of it. Know better, and be better, that you may have pride in yourself.
@@billsbadficbookclub Well stated Bill. I say this as a proud Israeli Jew. Shalom. k9search and recovery il.
Liam Neeson laying down roses on Schindler's grave can't be just acting, this is emotional ❤
In flowers' language, giving two roses to someone means in one way, asking for forgiveness
It’s not acting, because if it were, it would be depicting Oskar putting roses on his own grave which doesn’t make sense. Therefore it’s Liam being himself.
@@arkay238 correct. Awesome actor.
One of the most beautiful movies I've ever seen. Very few films about the hollocaust come even close to this masterpiece.
It shows us that hatred for our fellow people dies, and it dies horribly.
There is no excusing what the nazi's did, but it's important to not be mad at current germany for such things. To form a scapegoat and antagonize are the very same tactics the nazi's used. It would be damn shameful to see it repeated.
I'm not religious at all, but to any religious people reading, be they jew, muslim, christian or anything, may a higher power guide your path towards compassion. Preach love, compassion and open mindedness. Especially towards other religious groups. Once you see that they're all people, just like you and I, you'll find that they aren't so bad.
We are all humans. Amen, آمين, and אמן
❤❤❤
Francias II well said👏🏼
Try watching the movie Life is Beautiful. It's also a beautiful movie about a Jewish father trying to protect his son from the war.
The Pianist was also amazing
In the theatre watching this movie the ending caught us all off guard and left everyone an emotional wreck. Speilberg is the best.
This scene is hauntingly powerful…the music, the looks on everyone’s faces, the fact that survivors are walking amongst the cast…even more powerful in that it is one of the few scenes to be entirely in color.
The first time I watched this movie, roundabout the end of high school beginning of university in the early 2010s, I knew it by reputation as one of the most powerful and visceral examinations of the Holocaust in film history. While I was deeply moved by the film, I wasn’t necessarily caught off guard. I was primarily a history student, and so I was no stranger to the horrors of the holocaust.
But this final scene, the transition from black and white film of the actors to color film of the survivors, was so incredibly moving and well done, I immediately burst into tears, I couldn’t stop weeping for minutes.
I’m not sure a film will ever be made again as powerful as Schindler’s List.
Passion of the Christ, the direct reason why the Jews were persecuted in the first place. The tribes were scattered after the nation rejected their Messiah and the temple was destroyed in 70 AD. God is still pursuing his people and saving them where he can. Raising up people like Oscar Schindler to help them. The devil always raises up his evil agents, but God will always raise up his people to stand against.
The horrors that these people witnessed....... I cannot even imagine..... seeing them pay respect to the man (A Nazi no less) who ensured their survival is just so touching....
My great grandma was a prisoner of KL Stutthoff. She survived this hell. When Red Army with acomplise of 1 Polish Army on East came to camp she met soviet soldier and lost her mind. She woke up at hospital
It blows my mind that so many people around the world believe this never happened. Millions of innocents, mostly children and old people unable to be exploited in the labor camps, were robbed of their precious lives. May we never forget the crimes committed in the past.
I don't think there will ever be a movie ending that is able to hit me harder than "Schindler's List". The liberation of over 1,200 Polish Jews walking freely to a nearby town, the execution of Amon Goeth, witnessing the tragic failures/events that had hit Schindler after the war, the real Schindler Jews coming to pay their respects to Schindler's grave and finally Liam Neeson two roses on Schindler's grave.
As difficult as it is to dive into the hauntingly nightmarish environment of the movie, it is an essential film to view for all people.
A simply flawless movie.
The scene where they place the rocks on Schindler's grave broke me emotionally than any other scene in this movie. That was how much Schindler meant to these people.
how cute Emile is shes smiling despite having lost Oskar... its really amazing seing everyone gather, their actors and actual survivors from the his workshop place a stone on his grave... a truly heartwarming yet sad moment that the actions spoke louder then words!!
I met a number of survivors when I was volunteering on a kibbutz in the late 90's. They had no hate in them. I'll understand one day how. Am Yisrael Chai
I've wondered about that. I think the one's who do can't survive it.
There is a special place in Heaven reserved for Oskar Schindler. Rest in Everlasting Peace.✝️✡️🛐
They put the rocks on Schindler's grave as a way of saying thanks to the man who saved their lives and Spielberg arranged this as both a special ending to the film and a personal message
I know it makes sense not including him but having actor Ralph Fiennes accompany one of the real survivors to Schindler's grave among Ben Kingsley would have been a nice touch just to differentiate the actor's compassion from the Evil character he played in the movie. Hope i made sense
We watched this in freshman year of high school, and I managed to hold myself together until the end when Schindler breaks down in guilt of having not saved more. I pulled myself together a little bit but then broke again seeing this tribute to the real life man.
Thank You Oskar Schindler you were the light in the darkness for so many RIP
For some reason the "click" of the stones being placed on the grave gets me so hard watching this again today. Stone against stone, eternity against eternity.
Schindler may have gone to his final rest, but each "click" is an entire world filled with people that he had saved from untimely deaths and non-existence. "Whoever saves one man..."
Wording "gets me so hard"
I write movie reviews on IMDB. I am editing one for Schindler's List, which is one of my top 10 favorite movies. This is the conclusion of my review:
"This is a powerful film that will leave a great impact on you. It should never be forgotten. If all but a few movies are erased from human memory, let Schindler's List be one that remains.
"
That's deep
@@missyadams Thank you for that. :)
Seeing the Holocaust survivors in their two versions, young and old gave me goosebumps 😢, RIP to all Holocaust victim.
I've seen this hundreds of times. But every single time, when I see Rebeka Bau gently caressing his tomb, I break down in tears. That, to me, is the most beautiful and most heartbreaking second in all of movie history.
She looks so fragile when she does it
“Rabbi, could something like this ever happen in my lifetime?”
“It could happen tomorrow morning, if you are not careful.”
I've never heard men crying in a theater before but none of us seeing this movie expected this ending. I will never forget seeing these people walking next to those that played them in the film.
I have been to his burial site. There are still stoned on it. As a Jew I added one myself
🤮🤮🤮 is stone a form of currency now.
Laid any "stones for the poor Palestinians
@@sleepyjoescumbag1663 www.myjewishlearning.com/article/ask-the-expert-stones-on-graves/
learn a little history and respect, ya numpty
@@sleepyjoescumbag1663uh whay
I love how the survivors are accompanied by the actors who played them in the film.
The actors meeting up with their real characters to place their stones on Schindler’s grave in honor of him makes this one of the most unique movie endings I’ve ever seen in my life
RIP Mr.Schindler. Your kindness and legacy will never be forgotten. Rest well Mr.Schindler
Remember there are hateful ppl who will deny this ever happened.
“It grows there still.” Came looking for this video because those words have always stayed in my head.
The greatest ending I've seen put to film. Schindler's List is such a powerful masterpiece.
Not a jew myself....... but never again......
Seeing his wife place a rock on the stone for her husband broke me.
And the way she looks the grave. She seems so fragile
Imagine the last words of your life being a salute to a man that didn't give one shit about about you.
That little smile Mrs. Schindler gave after putting the stone awwwww
Yeah
All high school students should be required to watch this movie.
There are very few films as powerful as this. The last scene always leaves me in tears. A masterpiece.
NGL, the last scene would have ANYONE in tears
People like Schindler teaches me that, even in a small part, we can have hope in humanity ❤️
Sometimes, all it takes is one little spark, one small candle, to lead the way out of the darkness of evil into a better world.
When I was in prison in Ireland in 2015 there was a visit by a holocaust survivor. Now I had a relative working there and was trusted and liked. So they brought him to my cell during my lunch and I thought was just a quick hello. I asked would he like tea and he let me make him a cup. He sat on my bunk and I offered him a biscuit... He broke it in half and shared it with me. I immediately got teary eyed. He didn't have much English but we sat there and had tea and spoke a bit, the officers keeping a respectable distance outside. I wont go into what he said but I ended up crying. I wont pretend to be a hard man. This little old hugged me and told me not to be sad because one day I'd be free and happy like him. He made a joke about us being bald and left. His handler asked me to write a she message and my name in this little book he had. It was an unforgettable experience. I was detoxing from heroin and methadone and was emotional and tired and full of angst and worry but those 8-10 mins sitting and eating that half biscuit, because he made sure I did, that was his thing he wanted to share, was incredibly peaceful and transcendental.
I'm sure a ton of people will say I'm lying and ok, it's the Internet and unfortunately I don't know his name but in summer, July I think, 2015 he visited Clover Hill prison in Dublin. I'm sure I was picked for that, I mean he did a talk and all and the tour, but because staff knew my relative and I got a long well with them all. He was in my cell on E landing.
Wherever he is now, bless him. And everyone who survived and who didn't. Lest we forget. I don't usually tell people that story but seeing this just brought it all back.
I don't blame the Jews defending there homeland, the alternative is grim..
To make innocent people pay the same price? Palestinians never participated in this, why they have to suffer?
@@theman7522 Palestinians didn't participate in this. Palestinians participated in the second biggest murderfest of Jews since the Holocaust.
@@vietthanhpham8074look at the Hannibal doctrine my good sir. Idf killed most of the people on Oct 7th
Zionism is anti-semitic. The global Jewish population is not a monolith.
4:04 Ralph Finnes scared her so much because he reminded her of the actual nazi officer
I saw this on Netflix a while back, I promised myself to watch it one time only, it’s the most heartbreaking historical drama film I’ve ever seen