Schindler's List

Placement of Stern's arm around a one-armed worker at 'Oskar Schindler' (qv)'s warehouse.

'Oskar Schindler' (qv) was never awarded the Golden Nazi Party Badge, and thus couldn't have sold it to save more Jews.

In any event, all but a few of the badges were made of gold-plated brass.

The Golden Party Badge (Goldenes Parteiabzeichen) that 'Oskar Schindler' (qv) is holding is the 'large' military version and not the civilian type that he would have had, if he had been awarded one.

When Schindler goes to kiss the Jewish girl, he puts his hands on her shoulders.

In the next shot, he pulls his hands away from her cheeks.

When the boy is caught by the Nazi troops, he drops his case next to his feet.

When we cut back to him, the bag is a meter away.

When 'Oskar Schindler' (qv) is reprimanded for kissing the Jewish girl by the SS officer, the SS officer picks up his cup twice in the same sentence.

At the train station, when 'Oskar Schindler' (qv) saves Itzhak Stern from being sent away, an officer is seen flipping through pages of names, but all the pages are exactly the same.

The position of Amon Goeth's arms as he is talking to Helen in the basement before he beats her.

When 'Oskar Schindler' (qv) is in bed with his wife and talking, his head is resting on her.

But in the next shot, when she leans up/turns over to talk to him he is a lot further away from her.

Yerushalayim shel Zahav was not written until twenty years after WWII (see trivia).

When the kid is painting the letters "DIREKTOR" for the first time, a serif font is used.

In a subsequent shot the word is shown in a san-serif, bolder, almost stencil-like font.

The size of the word is also much larger than before.

The bottle of Hennessy cognac as seen in the movie is the new shape released in 1990s.

The original bottle shape was taller and had different label.

Just after the little boy is held up to pull down another icicle from the roof of the train, the camera angle switches to the exterior and pulls back to show the train going by with no trace of snow or ice anywhere else on the train except right over that one doorway.

When 'Oskar Schindler' (qv) and Itzhak Stern negotiate with the Jewish investors outside the ghetto, 'Steven Spielberg' (qv) is reflected on the rear window (his jacket is blowing in the wind).

In the opening sequence when 'Oskar Schindler' (qv) is preparing for the party (dressing up, getting money) the shape of his hands (and nails) differs from shot to shot.

When the train of women is pulling into Aushwitz, ramps are already in place next to the track.

They then disappear, and are put in place when the train stops.

The scene inside the cellar between 'Oskar Schindler' (qv) and the maid, when she faces the camera head on, there is no light coming from the right, yet as the scene progresses and the shot tightens, somebody turns on a light which becomes visible as they cut to her left and her head tilts forward.

When 'Oskar Schindler' (qv) first meets Amon over lunch, there is an officer who pours water twice, from two different angles.

'Oskar Schindler' (qv) sits down at Amon's table for lunch, getting ready to eat, with the camera looking from behind Amon.

When they change angles you can see him already chewing the food.

The opening sequence in the train station, one can clearly see that there is no metal cover where the guy is setting up the table, yet as they begin to take names, it seems that the action is happening in a different place.

The sequence of 'Oskar Schindler' (qv) interviewing for a secretary position opens with a wide shot showing furniture in the room that is covered while the walls are being painted.

Once it cuts to a close shot, the furniture is gone.

The 'Billie Holiday' (qv) song heard from a radio is not the wartime recording stated on the end credits.

It's a later version from the 1950s.

When one train of the male Jews were taken to "Czechoslovakia" (wrong name for that history period) we can see some electric columns for electric rail tracks.

That could be impossible because till the end of War there was no electric tracks in that area.

Even all locomotives were steam-engine.

After the little boy takes the saddle out of the car and after 'Oskar Schindler' (qv) says thank you - he passes on some cigarettes to an SS personnel at the camp and Schindler calls him "Rottenführer", but the rank/insignia of the SS man responds to a different rank called Sturmmann which is one rank lower than the Rottenführer rank.

The first time Amon Goeth shoots a Jewish prisoner, the large dirt squib is clearly visible in the background before it detonates.

The hanging of Amon Goeth looks absolutely nothing like the actual film footage of the execution.

Place, clothing, procedures, number of people involved and the graphic events that took place are all wrong.

When the men use a little boy to get ice from the roof of the train while they're going to 'Oskar Schindler' (qv)'s factory, the barbed wire on the window is in a zig-zag pattern, but the exterior shot reveals a line pattern.

"Der fröhliche Wanderer" or "Mein Vater war ein Wandersmann," known in English as "The Happy Wanderer" was written after WWII.

This is the song being lead by 'Oskar Schindler' (qv) in the cabaret at the beginning of the movie.

In the scene where they are separating the healthy from the sick, one of the men running naked is clearly not circumcised.

However, many of the Jewish prisoners were not Torah observant but in fact had been assimilated into Gentile society, and thus may not have been, in fact, circumcised.

When the Nazis are separating healthy and sick prisoners, they play two shellac records.

The second disc is labeled "Fogg Records", but 'Mieczyslaw Fogg' (qv) founded his record company after the war; moreover Fogg recorded mostly (if not only) Polish performers at his studio, and that song doesn't resemble a Polish song.

When Goeth attempts to shoot the Rabbi for producing too few hinges, his semi-automatic pistol fails to fire.

In order to re-cock the pistol, he racks the slide (pulls back the slide) several times.

When the gun still fails to fire, he tries the same thing with a second semi-automatic pistol.

Each time the slide is pulled back, we should see an unfired round being ejected from the gun, but this does not happen.

(German version only) When 'Oskar Schindler' (qv) and Goeth argue about the disposition of Helen Hirsch, we hear Goeth pronouncing the name of Auschwitz incorrectly, he says "Aus-schwitz".

This error can be noticed at times in German public as people indeed seem to confuse the name of Auschwitz (which is German for the Polish town name Oswiecim) with "Ausschwitz" (where "ausschwitzen" actually means "to exude").

Amon Goeth was arrested by the Gestapo for theft of Jewish property in November 1944, before the list was made, so all scenes showing him involved thereafter are historically inaccurate.

When the doctor goes into his secret stash of fine liquors, there seems to be a ray of light inside.

How is that possible since it must be inside a wall? When 'Oskar Schindler' (qv) takes his meal he uses his fork with the right hand and his knife with the left.

Not being left-handed this would be a very unusual thing for a German man to do.

In fact, Germans and many Europeans do in fact cut their meat with their dominant hand, and do not rotate utensils.

Rather the meat is eaten straight from the knife, so the way Schindler eats in that scene is technically culturally correct.

In the 1940s, almost all European women did not shave any of their armpits, legs, or pubic areas, especially work or death camp women who were not allowed even the basics.

All but one of the women in the film are trimmed and groomed.

When Schindler is getting dressed to go to the night club at the beginning of the film he pours a clear liquid into his glass on the table next to the radio and lamp from a Hennessy VSOP Cognac bottle.

Hennessy VSOP Cognac has a dark, amber color and wouldn't be clear for any reason.

Among the decorations worn by Amon Goeth on his SS uniform are the Iron Cross 2nd Class, the Sudentenland Medal, and the Silesian Eagle.

Goeth was never awarded any of these decorations; in the case of the Silesian Eagle, Goeth would have been 11 years old when the badge was presented.

After Goeth attempts to shoot the rabbi only to have his pistol fail to fire he pulls a second semi-automatic pistol from his pocket to shoot the rabbi.

After this pistol also fails to fire several times Goeth hits the rabbi and walks away dropping the pistol on the ground.

The pistol that he drops is a revolver and not the semi-automatic he removed from his pocket.

The Doctor who poisons his patient in an act of mercy killing is first seen covered in blood scrambling to get the poison from a pharmacy.

Moments later he is seen in a perfectly clean identical coat when he is distributing the poison.

A bit later he is seen carrying a wounded woman who is subsequently shot by an SS man, the former bleeding out on the doctor.

Towards the end of the film, when the Russian soldier liberates the Schindler Jews who are sleeping outside of the factory, as he rides towards them on a horse there are lot of gaps on the ground between the sleeping Jews.

Then the camera angle changes to a position behind the soldier, and there are far more people lying on the ground with no gaps whatsoever between them.

In the ammunition factory, Schindler approaches the rabbi working at a grinding machine from behind and asks him a question.

The rabbi does not hear it, due to machine noise, so Schindler calls him a little louder.

The rabbi then switches the machine off and answers the original question, which he did not hear and Schindler did not repeat.

In 1993, audiences around the world received two of director Steven Spielberg's most influential and critically acclaimed films. One, an enthralling dinosaur adventure with ground-breaking visual effects that captured the imagination of an entire generation the other, a harrowing recreation of true-life events centring around the most vile and evil moments in human history and the true heroes that rose from the ashes of destruction and genocide.

I never understood (and will never understand) why this movie is so applauded by such a large number of people! an average of 8.

Absolutely captures the pain of the holocaust. Human life for them was such a struggle.

We must never forget this story.It is the true history, i wanna look away but must not, about Holocaust.

I can't believe this movie only ranks 6th overall for best ranked movies. The Dark Knight, Godfather and Shawshank Redemption were ranked higher.

Just watched this beautiful masterpiece of Steven Spielberg again and as first time can't hold my emotions and tears ... the perfect story of humanity which is highly recommended to watch .

I finished watching schindlers list today and it was the first time i had seen it. It was tragic in places and extremely upsetting in others.

This movie was not good at all in my mind. First avole it was directed by Steven Spielberg who usually directs amazing movies.