Downfall vs Schindler's List

Schindler's List has the higher audience score (8.6/10 against 7.9/10 for Downfall). Downfall is the shorter watch at 2h 35m compared with 3h 15m. Schindler's List is the older of the two (1993 against 2004). Both are drama, history, war movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Downfall posterDownfall2004 VS Schindler's List posterSchindler's List1993
DownfallSchindler's List
Audience score★ 7.9/10★ 8.6/10
Year20041993
Length2h 35m3h 15m
GenresDrama, History, WarDrama, History, War
Country––
DirectorOliver HirschbiegelSteven Spielberg
Main castThomas Kretschmann, Alexandra Maria Lara, Bruno Ganz, Rolf Kanies, Christian BerkelCaroline Goodall, Mark Ivanir, Ralph Fiennes, Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley

Synopsis

Downfall

In April of 1945, Germany stands at the brink of defeat with the Russian Army closing in from the east and the Allied Expeditionary Force attacking from the west. In Berlin, capital of the Third Reich, Adolf Hitler proclaims that Germany will still achieve victory and orders his generals and advisers to fight to the last man. When the end finally does come, and Hitler lies dead by his own hand, what is left of his military must find a way to…

Schindler's List

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.

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