Schindler's List

On the data. One film, and the circumstances around it matter. Steven Spielberg refused to take a salary, saying he would not take blood money. He had held the rights for about a decade and repeatedly tried to hand the film to other directors, Roman Polanski and Martin Scorsese among them, before making it himself. It won seven Academy Awards, including best picture and the first best director award Spielberg received. It is nearly entirely in black and white. The few flashes of colour, particularly a girl's red coat, are deliberate and are the one piece of technique most people remember. It is adapted from Schindler's Ark by Thomas Keneally, which won the Booker Prize in 1982. The book was marketed as a novel in Britain and as non-fiction in America, which caused an argument at the time about which it actually is. The profits went into the Shoah Foundation, which Spielberg set up to record survivor testimony, and which has collected tens of thousands of interviews since.

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