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Schindler's List

Underdog Below average but still in the conversation
1993 · Drama, History, War · Steven Spielberg

Schindler's List is below average at 43% across 113 head-to-head matchups, but it's not out of the conversation. No round offers a foothold — below average at every stage. A film that carries the weight of history so effectively that voting against it can feel like a moral statement rather than a preference. That weight is both its greatest bracket asset and its most complicated liability — importance and rewatchability are not the same thing.

Synopsis

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.

Round 1
44.3%
Semifinals
38.7%
The ceiling
Finals
41.7%
5/12

44% opening, 39% semis, 42% finals. No round breaks above average, but the opening at 44% come closest — that's where Schindler's List shows the most fight.

Against The Shawshank Redemption, the margin is razor-thin: 50%. The most contested matchup in Schindler's List's record. The extremes tell a clear story — 67% against Mad Max: Fury Road at one end, 14% against The Silence of the Lambs at the other.

Closest Rival
Dominates
Coco
66.7%
Kryptonite
Star Wars
66.7%

Schindler's List sits at #9 of Steven Spielberg's 11 films. The filmography spans from Raiders of the Lost Ark (68%) down to E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (39%) — a 29% range that shows how differently voters treat the same director's work.

BingeBracket Record
43%
Win Rate
#75 of 105 in Drama #35 of 50 from the 1990s #9 of 11 Steven Spielberg films
Scores based on real fan votes in head-to-head brackets. 50% = wins as often as it loses — perfectly average.
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