Movies like Schindler's List (1993)

Name: Schindler's List
Released: 1993

10 films to watch after Schindler's List, ranked by how well they match its tone — not just its genre.

The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis while they worked as slaves in his factory during World War II.

1

The Zookeeper's Wife (2017)

Fit 82%

Shares Drama, History and War with Schindler's List.

The account of keepers of the Warsaw Zoo, Jan and Antonina Zabinski, who helped save hundreds of people and animals during the Nazi invasion.
2

The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler (2009)

Fit 81%

Shares Drama and War with Schindler's List.

Irena Sendler is a Catholic social worker who has sympathized with the Jews since her childhood, when her physician father died of typhus contracted while treating poor Jewish patients. When she initially proposes saving Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto, her idea is met with skepticism by fellow workers, her parish priest, and even her own mother Janina.
3

Irena's Vow (2024)

Fit 80%

Shares War, Drama and History with Schindler's List.

19 year old Irena Gut is promoted to housekeeper in the home of a highly respected Nazi officer in Poland when she finds out that the Jewish ghetto is about to be liquidated. Determined to help twelve Jewish workers, she decides to shelter them in the safest place she can think of – the basement of the German Major's house. Over the next eight months, Irena uses her wit, humour and immense courage to hide her friends as long as possible.
4

Resistance (2020)

Fit 80%

Shares War, History and Drama with Schindler's List.

The story of mime Marcel Marceau as he works with a group of Jewish boy scouts and the French Resistance to save the lives of ten thousand orphans during World War II.
5

The Grey Zone (2001)

Fit 78%

Shares Drama, War and History with Schindler's List.

The story of Auschwitz's twelfth Sonderkommando — one of the thirteen consecutive "Special Squads" of Jewish prisoners placed by the Nazis in the excruciating moral dilemma of assisting in the extermination of fellow Jews in exchange for a few more months of life.
6

The World Will Tremble (2025)

Fit 70%

Shares Drama, War and History with Schindler's List.

The incredible, untold true story of how a group of prisoners attempt a seemingly impossible escape from the first Nazi death camp in order to provide the first eyewitness account of the Holocaust.
7

Glory (1989)

Fit 69%

Shares Drama, History and War with Schindler's List.

Robert Gould Shaw leads the US Civil War's first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices of both his own Union army and the Confederates.
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September 5 (2024)

Fit 57%

Shares Drama and History with Schindler's List.

During the 1972 Munich Olympics, an American sports broadcasting crew finds itself thrust into covering the hostage crisis involving Israeli athletes.
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Rescue Dawn (2007)

Fit 47%

Shares Drama and War with Schindler's List.

A US Fighter pilot's epic struggle of survival after being shot down on a mission over Laos during the Vietnam War.
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Flyboys (2006)

Fit 37%

Shares Drama, History and War with Schindler's List.

The adventures of the Lafayette Escadrille, young Americans who volunteered for the French military before the U.S. entered World War I, and became the country's first fighter pilots.