And the winner is...

             Schindler's List! This magnificent masterpiece, directed by Steven Spielberg, tells of the plight and suffering of the Jews during World War Two, and how ONE man made a difference.
             Oskar Schindler is a businessman and a member of the Nazi Party. At the start of the film Schindler is stuck up and selfish, but as time goes on he realises that HE can do something to help the Jews.
             At the beginning of the War Schindler sets up his company 'D.E.F'. Jewish businessmen buy it before all Jews are moved into ghettos (March 20. 1941). Schindler gets himself a Jewish accountant – Stern and he gets Stern to select a workforce for his factory. Schindler employs Jews because they are the cheapest to employ.
             After the Jews have been put into ghettos many are sent to forced labour camps. Stern forgets his work card one-day and he is put on a train to one of these camps, Schindler gets there just in time. It could be said that Stern is the first Jew that Schindler saves.
             All the Jews luggage was categorised and the Nazi's even got Jews to separate it. This scene needs no words, it just shows all the piles of the Jews possessions and music is playing.
             The Jews are glad of the security of the ghettos; they don't realise that Goeth is about to arrive. When Goeth is driving by, there are lots of long shots.
             At the labour camp Goeth is picking a maid – Helen. This is where the film starts to get into the mind of the psycho Nazi.
             The film is brutally honest and shows how amoral and irrational the Nazi's were. It shows how Jews were killed just for voicing their opinions!
             On March 13, 1943 the Krakow Ghetto Massacre takes place. The Nazi's went into the ghettos, drove all the Jews out, killed many of them, shot them, wrecked their possessions and separated them from their families.
             Schindler is out riding with one of his mistresses, they are on a hilltop looking down, it is very symbolic, this...

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