Film Schindlers List 1993 - ?TopFoto Schindler's List was a 1993 movie, based on the book Schindler's Ark by Thomas Keneally (later renamed to Schindler's List itself). The movie, directed by Steven Spielberg, related the tale of Oskar Schindler, a German entrepreneur who was instrumental in saving the lives of over one thousand Polish Jews during the Holocaust. The movie is named after a list of names of the 1,200 Jews that Schindler hired to work in his factory and kept from being sent to concentration camps.