Schindler's List vs Taking Sides

Schindler's List has the higher audience score (8.6/10 against 6.2/10 for Taking Sides). Taking Sides is the shorter watch at 1h 48m compared with 3h 15m. Schindler's List is the older of the two (1993 against 2002). Both are drama, war movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Schindler's List posterSchindler's List1993 VS Taking Sides posterTaking Sides2002
Schindler's ListTaking Sides
Audience score★ 8.6/10★ 6.2/10
Year19932002
Length3h 15m1h 48m
GenresDrama, History, WarDrama, Music, War
CountryUnited States of America–
DirectorSteven SpielbergIstván Szabó
Main castCaroline Goodall, Mark Ivanir, Ralph Fiennes, Liam Neeson, Ben KingsleyHarvey Keitel, R. Lee Ermey, August Zirner, Moritz Bleibtreu, Stellan Skarsgård

Synopsis

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.

Taking Sides

One of the most spectacular and renowned conductors of the 1930s, Wilhelm Furtwangler's reputation rivaled that of Toscanini's. After the war, he was investigated as part of the Allies' de-Nazification programme. In the bombed-out Berlin of the immediate post-war period, the Allies slowly bring law and order to bear on an occupied Germany. An American major is given the Furtwangler file, and is told to find everything he can and to prosecute…

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