Films Shot in Israel (Film Guide) - Schindler's List, the Insider, Iron Eagle, You Don't Mess with the Zohan, Kazablan, a Man Called Sarge (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Commentary (films not included). Pages: 34. Chapters: Schindler's List, The Insider, Iron Eagle, You Don't Mess with the Zohan, Kazablan, A Man Called Sarge, Rambo III, The Delta Force, Miral, Iron Eagle II, Late Marriage, The Debt, Not Without My Daughter, Paradise, The Order, Alila, Ushpizin, Free Zone, Deja Vu, Jaffa, Hanna's War, Sahara, To Take a Wife, Zion and His Brother, Sh'Chur, Mabul, Metamorphosis of a Melody, America 3000. Excerpt: Schindler's List is a 1993 American biographical drama film about Oskar Schindler, a German businessman who saved the lives of more than a thousand mostly Polish-Jewish refugees during the Holocaust by employing them in his factories. The film was directed by Steven Spielberg, and based on the novel Schindler's Ark by Australian novelist Thomas Keneally. It stars Liam Neeson as Schindler, Ralph Fiennes as Schutzstaffel (SS)-officer Amon Goth, and Ben Kingsley as Schindler's Jewish accountant Itzhak Stern. The film was a box office success and recipient of seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Original Score, as well as numerous other awards (7 BAFTAs, 3 Golden Globes). In 2007, the American Film Institute ranked the film 8th on its list of the 100 best American films of all time (up one position from its 9th place listing on the 1998 list). It is considered among critics as one of the best films ever made. The film begins in 1939 with the German-initiated relocation of Polish Jews from surrounding areas to the Krakow Ghetto shortly after the beginning of World War II. Meanwhile, Oskar Schindler (Liam Neeson), an ethnic German businessman from Moravia, arrives in the city in hopes of making his fortune as a war profiteer. Schindler, a member of the Nazi Party, lavishes bribes upon the Wehrmacht and SS officials in charge of procurement. Sponsored by the military, Sch...