Eugene Jarecki

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Eugene Jarecki is an American documentary filmmaker . His films Why We Fight and The House I Live In won awards at the Sundance Film Festival .

Filmmaker Eugene Jarecki

Life

Jarecki studied at Princeton and New York University . In Princeton, Jarecki worked for several years as a stage director. In 1992 he turned to the medium of film and won a Student Academy Award and the Time Warner Grand Prize at the Aspen Film Festival with his first short film Season Of The Lifterbees , after the film premiered at the 1993 Sundance Film Festival.

His film Accused: Henry Kissinger was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award and won the Amnesty International Award in 2002 . The film was shown on Sundance DOCday and on the digital broadcaster BBC Four .

Jarecki was visiting scholar at Brown University's Watson Institute for International Studies . His brother Andrew Jarecki is also a filmmaker.

Movies

  • Season Of The Lifterbees (1993)
  • Quest of the Carib Canoe (2000)
  • The Opponent (2000)
  • The Trials of Henry Kissinger (2002; German title: Accused: Henry Kissinger )
  • Why We Fight (2006)
  • Addiction (2007)
  • Freakonomics (2010) (theatrical release in Germany: October 24, 2013)
  • Reagan (2011)
  • The House I Live In (2012; German title: Drugs: America's Longest War )
  • The King - With Elvis Through America (2018)

Fonts

  • The American Way of War: Guided Missiles, Misguided Men, and a Republic in Peril (2008), Simon & Schuster / Free Press.

Web links

Guest appearances

Individual evidence

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personal data
SURNAME Jarecki, Eugene
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American documentary filmmaker
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century