Schindler's LIST is a 1993 American epic historical drama film directed and co-produced by Steven Spielberg. It is based on the novel Schindler's Ark by Australian novelist Thomas Keneally, which is based on the true story of Oskar Schindler, a German businessman who saved the lives of more than a thousand mostly Polish-Jewish refugees during the Holocaust by employing them in his factories. The four letter solution to the crossword is 'JOB'. Therefore, Schindler's LIST is a film about Oskar Schindler's JOB of saving the lives of Jewish refugees during the Holocaust.