‘Schindler’s List’ Is the Best War Movie Ever Made, According to IMDb

By Douglas A. McIntyre Published Mar 17, 1:18PM EDT

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War movies have been a movie staple since the days of silent movies. Hugely successful, “The Birth of a Nation” (1915) was primarily about the Civil War and the founding of the KKK. There have since been movies about every major conflict in American history from the Revolutionary War to the Gulf Wars. The greatest of these movies, according to IMDb, is “Schindler’s List” (1993), which is based on a true story.

“Schindler’s List,” directed by Steven Spielberg, starred Liam Neeson in the title role. Also in the cast were Ralph Fiennes and Ben Kingsley. It has an IMDb user rating of 8.9/10 and a Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer score of 98%. (Neeson is one of the most popular action stars of all time.)

“Schindler’s List,” the story of how an Austrian businessman saved the lives of Jews during World War II, dominated the Academy Awards in 1994, winning seven Oscars, including Best Director – the first of two for Spielberg (the other being another war movie, “Saving Private Ryan”) – and Best Picture. Susan Stark of the Detroit Free Press called the film “heartfelt” and “monumental.”

Here’s a complete list of the best war movies of all time.

About the Author Douglas A. McIntyre →

Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

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A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.