One Life review – stirring tale of the ‘British Schindler’ predictably told
James Hawes’s workmanlike biopic of Nicholas Winton, who saved 669 children from the Nazis, is lifted by a stellar cast
December 2023
Schindler’s List at 30: Spielberg’s Holocaust drama is as essential as ever
The blockbuster film-maker turned the horrors of the second world war into an Oscar-winning drama that is a public service
‘It will always be less hellish than the reality’: why cinema keeps returning to the Holocaust
Three new films attempt to address the Holocaust. But can cinema ever hope to adequately confront humanity’s darkest chapter?
Kindertransport success of ‘Britain’s Schindler’ celebrated in new film and exhibition
Film starring Johnny Flynn and Anthony Hopkins and photographs of Holocaust survivors pay tribute to courage of UK Kindertransport hero
April 2022
Mimi Reinhard obituary
Woman who drew up Schindler’s lists during Holocaust dies at 107
September 2021
Unsung hero: how ‘Mr Radio Philips’ helped thousands flee the Nazis
In June 1940, a Dutch salesman, acting as a consul in Lithuania, issued Jewish refugees with pseudo visas to escape Europe. His remarkable story is only now being told
June 2020
The classic film I've never seen
I've never seen … Schindler's List
Spielberg’s beautifully shot three-hour multi-Oscar-winner is at times overwrought, but fully worthy of its masterpiece status
February 2020
Hadley Freeman's Weekend column
I didn’t love Taika Waititi’s movie, but I feel his shoulder – and back, and neck – pain
Hadley Freeman
After the director picked up his Oscar for Jojo Rabbit, he launched into the most powerful speech I’ve ever heard
December 2018
Schindler's List at 25: looking back on Spielberg's defining Holocaust drama
A big-screen rerelease leads to a re-examination of the 1993 Oscar winner which had a profound effect on critics and audiences
May 2018
Antony Beevor: the greatest war movie ever – and the ones I can't bear
He groaned at Valkyrie and despaired at Saving Private Ryan. The award-winning historian takes aim at the war films that make him furious – and reveals his own favourite
November 2016
Schindler's List factory to be turned into Holocaust memorial
A Czech foundation plans to restore the dilapidated factory and create a Holocaust memorial and an exhibition depicting Schindler’s life
June 2016
Five best moments
Ben Kingsley: five best moments
The Oscar-winning actor teaches Patricia Clarkson the rules of the road in new comedy Learning to Drive but what have been his career highs?
June 2015
Film blog
Holocaust cinema: why film-makers are revisiting a never-to-be-forgotten hell
Auschwitz-set Son of Saul is focusing the film industry’s attention on the wartime atrocities committed by the Nazis – and it couldn’t be more relevant
April 2015
Poland demands Mattel remove 'Nazi Poland' reference from card game
Embassy complaint of wording of Apples to Apples’ Schindler’s List card comes week after FBI director linked Nazi Germany to Poland in Holocaust speech
March 2015
Books blog
Are these the best book-to-film adaptations?
A survey of 3,000 fans found Harry Potter and James Bond the UK’s favourite big-screen books. Help us come up with a less mainstream list
August 2014
Swedish neo-Nazis get an earful of Schindler's List theme at rally
Officials in Norrköping arrange for bells of city hall to peal tune from Spielberg's Holocaust film to counter far-right message
March 2013
Shortcuts
Should children be allowed to act in harrowing films?
'Red coat girl' traumatised by experience of watching Schindler's List
January 2013
Oscars watch 2013
Oscars 2013: Lincoln stays red-hot favourite as awards fever rises
Well-timed parallels to Obama's election campaign could help bring Steven Spielberg the same success as Schindler's List
