For the scene in which Jack Torrance breaks down the bathroom door, the props department built a door that could easily be broken down. However, Jack Nicholson had worked as a volunteer fire marshal and tore it apart far too easily, so the props department was forced to build a much stronger door.

Schindler’s List is the most expensive black and white film ever made to this date. The previous record was held for over 30 years by another film about World War II, The Longest Day.

Stanley Kubrick decided that having the hedge animals come alive, as they do in the novel, was unworkable due to restrictions in special effects, so he opted for a hedge maze instead.

The maze was constructed on an airfield near Elstree studios, by weaving branches to chicken wire mounted on empty plywood boxes. The maze was shot using an extremely short lens (a 9.8mm, which gives a horizontal viewing angle of 90 degrees) which was kept dead level at all times, to make the hedges seem much bigger and more imposing than they were in reality.