Movies

Krakow (1939)

Filmed in 1938 and 1939 and part of a six-film series made by film company Sektor Films, this ten-minute, B&W documentary captures everyday life in Krakow's Jewish neighborhood before its obliteration by the Holocaust.

Schindler's List (1993)

Much of Steven Spielberg's seven-time Oscar-award winning film was filmed in and around Krakow, site of unlikely hero Oskar Schindler's enamelware factory through which he was able to save the lives of over 1,110 Jews during the Holocaust.

Dekalog (Decalogue) (1989)

Though set in a housing project outside of Warsaw, Krzystof Kieslowski's TV miniseries provides an allegorical entrée into Polish life as each of the ten episodes examines the travails of everyday life refracted against one of the Ten Commandments.