Eugene Jarecki
Eugene Jarecki | |
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Jarecki at the Golden Globe Documentary Prize 2025 Cannes Film Festival | |
| Born | October 5, 1969 New Haven, Connecticut, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Princeton University |
| Occupation | Film director |
| Notable work | Why We Fight (2005) The King (2017) |
| Parent | Henry Jarecki (father) |
| Family | Andrew Jarecki (brother) Tom Jarecki (brother) Nicholas Jarecki (half-brother) |
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).