Eugene Jarecki
American filmmaker
Eugene Jarecki (born October 5, 1969) is an American documentary filmmaker. He is best known for his films Why We Fight, Reagan, and The House I Live In.
His other films include The Trials of Henry Kissinger, Freakonomics, The King, and Quest of the Carib Canoe. His most recent feature, The Six Billion Dollar Man won the L'Œil d'or Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival and the Golden Globe Prize for Documentary in 2025.
To date, Jarecki and his films have won the Grand Jury Prize (twice) and a Special Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, two Emmy's, two Peabody Awards, a Golden Globe, a Grierson Award, a Grimme-Preis, and the L'Œil d'or Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival. His work has also been nominated for several other Emmy's, an Independent Spirit Award, a Grammy, and a Writers Guild of America award.
Jarecki, described as a "a public intellectual on domestic and international affairs" is a Senior Fellow at Brown University's Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs and has also been a Soros Justice Fellow at the Open Society Foundations. Jarecki is the author of two books including The American Way of War: Guided Missiles, Misguided Men, and a Republic in Peril (Simon & Schuster).
Early life and education
Jarecki was born in New Haven, Connecticut to Henry Jarecki and Gloria Jarecki, a former film critic at Time magazine. Jarecki grew up in New York with his brothers Andrew Jarecki (The Jinx, Capturing the Friedmans) and pilot Tom Jarecki.
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