Film Lesson: Schindler's List

Schindler's List gives you a very powerful description of the Holocaust. It goes into the lives of people who experienced the terror caused by Hitler and the Nazis in the concentration camps. You can actually see how ruthless the the Nazi officers really were. They were willing to do anything to exterminate any race they thought "inferior". The film also goes into the life of Schindler, and how he managed to save the lives of over 2,000 Jews put under his control.

I thought that the most powerful scene of the movie was when the SS officers were trying to take the children away. The officers had taken them away during a medical examination so that the parents wouldn't resist them. Some children tried to hide so that they could stay with their parents. Some kids even resorted to hiding in the toilets to avoid getting caught. This scene shows you how desperate the prisoners were to keep the families together, and also shows how heartless the Nazi officers were.

Film Lesson- Night and Fog

Night and Fog gives you a good description of how serious the Holocaust was. It shows you some of what was really going on in the concentration camps. It shows you the methods that the Nazis used in their death camps to try and eliminate an entire race of people. It also had some very powerful scenes about the Holocaust.

In my opinion, Schindler's List gives you a better description of the Holocaust than Night and Fog. Night and Fog had some intense scenes, but I believe that Schindler's list was a better movie. Night and Fog was interesting and it did give you more in-depth information about the concentration camps than Schindler's List did, but Schindler's List gives you a more personal side to the story. In Schindler's List, you can actually see the experiences that people had to endure in the camps while in Night and Fog, you just get an explanation of what happened.