Universal released a new trailer for the upcoming 25th-anniversary re-release of Steven Spielberg's masterpiece, "Schindler's List." A 1993 Best Picture winner, the film is one of the most astonishing depictions of the Holocaust ever put on celluloid, right up there with Claude Lanzmann's "Shoah" and Alain Resnais "Night and Fog." Spielberg's film, shot in beautiful black and white by his longtime DP Janusz Kaminski, told the true story of Oskar Schindler (Liam Neeson), a factory owner in Nazi-occupied Poland.Schindler saved over 1,200 Jewish lives by striking a deal with the Nazis to employ Jews in his factory and consequentially saving them from being sent off to the gas chambers.
Read more15 Great Modern-Day Movies Shot in Black & White
Since the 1960s, movies shot in black and white have practically become extinct. The number of films shot in black and white has decreased every successive decade since then. And yet, sometimes a movie demands to be shot without color to capture a certain kind of mood or tone that color would otherwise fail to get. In the case of the following list, "modern-day" means anything produced after 1970, which is when the decline really started happening. The following 15 examples are further proof that black and white will never die, as long as there are directors and DP's out there willing to value and acknowledge its importance.
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