Podcast appearances and mentions of Eugene Jarecki

In 2010, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange released a secret video of a U.S. helicopter attack on Iraqi civilians. U.S. authorities charged him with disclosing state secrets and demanded his extradition to the U.S. Assange took refuge inside the Ecuadorean embassy in London and spent a dozen years first inside the embassy and later jailed in the U.K.'s high security Belmarsh Prison. He was released last year after pleading guilty to a single charge under the Espionage Act and now lives in Australia.Last week, Julian Assange returned to the international stage, walking the red carpet at the Cannes Film Festival alongside Vermont filmmaker Eugene Jarecki. Jarecki's new film, “The Six Billion Dollar Man,” chronicles Assange's crusade to reveal inconvenient truths that governments seek to bury. Jarecki's new film has been garnering awards, receiving the first-ever Golden Globe Award for best documentary, and taking the special jury prize of the L'Oeil d'or, or Golden Eye award, the documentary film prize at Cannes.At the Golden Globes, the award Jarecki received recognized his work for “combining the skills of a journalist with the voice of a poet.” The statement added, “At a time when truth is under pressure, Eugene's work reminds us of the power of storytelling to provoke, enlighten, and ultimately defend democracy itself.”Eugene Jarecki has won Emmy and Peabody awards for his previous films, including documentaries about Ronald Reagan, Henry Kissinger, and the military-industrial complex.Jarecki lives in Vermont and co-founded the Big Picture Theater in Waitsfield. I caught up with him in Europe.

Doc Talk heads to the Croisette to speak with filmmakers and film participants who debuted their documentaries at Cannes: Raoul Peck on George Orwell; Eugene Jarecki on Julian Assange; U2's Bono on his new Apple TV+ film; Mariska Hargitay on her film about her late mother, Jayne Mansfield, and the makers of Slauson Rec, a documentary about Shia LaBeouf's stormy tenure leading a free theater company in L.A. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Another glamorous Cannes Film Festival has ended, after an exciting fortnight on the Côte d'Azur that drew the likes of Tom Cruise, Jennifer Lawrence, Emma Stone, Scarlett Johansson, Robert Pattinson, Denzel Washington, Paul Mescal, Kristen Stewart, and many others. Stars of documentaries also turned up: Shia LaBeouf, whose exploits as founder of a free theater company in L.A. are chronicled in Slauson Rec, and Julian Assange, focus of the documentary The Six Billion Dollar Man. The latter film, directed by Eugene Jarecki, won a Special Jury Prize marking the 10th anniversary of the L'Oeil d'or award, which goes to the top documentary at Cannes. Imago, directed by Chechen filmmaker Déni Oumar Pitsaev, took the 2025 L'Oeil d'or prize. For the first time, Deadline's Doc Talk podcast traveled to Cannes to record interviews and to moderate a panel at the American Pavilion. Today's episode of the show is built around our AmPav discussion on the state of the documentary industry which featured panelists Vanessa Hope (director of Invisible Nation); Joe Tufano, VP of Distribution at Submarine Entertainment, and Catherine Quantschnigg, Producer, Sales at Noah Media Group. Tufano explains how documentary filmmakers are increasingly moving to a territory-by-territory approach to sell their features in the absence of acquisitions for worldwide distribution. Hope tells us why she considered going the self-distribution route in the U.S. for her award-winning film that explores Taiwan as it contends with almost daily threats from mainland China. And Quantschnigg reveals how the distribution landscape has changed dramatically in only a few years since Netflix acquired Noah Media Group's acclaimed film 14 Peaks: Nothing Is Impossible. That's on the latest edition of the Doc Talk podcast, hosted by Oscar winner John Ridley (12 Years a Slave, Shirley) and Matt Carey, Deadline's documentary editor. The pod is a production of Deadline and Ridley's Nō Studios. Listen to the episode above or on major podcast platforms including Spotify, iHeart and Apple. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

En Francia, en el Festival número 78 de Cannes, se presentó 9. En Francia, en el Festival número 78 de Cannes, se presentó "The Six Billion Dollar Man"; un documental del galardonado director estadounidense Eugene Jarecki sobre Julian Assange, cuyas filtraciones a través de Wikileaks causaron un escándalo diplomático internacional y sacudieron los cimientos de inteligencia estadounidense. Assange se refugió en la embajada ecuatoriana de Londres durante siete años, y luego pasó cinco en las cárceles británicas, hasta que fue liberado en junio de 2024.; un documental del galardonado director estadounidense Eugene Jarecki sobre Julian Assange, cuyas filtraciones a través de Wikileaks causaron un escándalo diplomático internacional y sacudieron los cimientos de inteligencia estadounidense. Assange se refugió en la embajada ecuatoriana de Londres durante siete años, y luego pasó cinco en las cárceles británicas, hasta que fue liberado en junio de 2024.

Eugene Jarecki is an Emmy and Peabody award-winning director of dramatic and documentary subjects. He has won the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival twice — for Why We Fight in 2005 and The House I Live In in 2012. His other films include the Emmy-Award Winning Reagan, The Trials of Henry Kissinger, Freakonomics, and The Cyclist. In 2010, Jarecki's online video, Move Your Money, spurred a nationwide initiative to support local banks over larger institutions. As the founder of The Eisenhower Project, Jarecki aims to demystify U.S. foreign and defense policies, a mission furthered by his book The American Way of War. His most recent film, The King—which explores the complex legacy of Elvis Presley against the backdrop of American society—was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Music film of the Year and 2 News and Documentary Emmys, including Best Documentary. ------ Thank you to the sponsors that fuel our podcast and our team: Squarespace https://squarespace.com/tetra ------ LMNT Electrolytes https://drinklmnt.com/tetra ------ House of Macadamias https://www.houseofmacadamias.com/tetra

We're still not entirely sure what the mega-bestselling 2005 book "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" was about, but it seems to have had something to do with arguing that economics is all about incentives. The 2010 anthology film adaptation FREAKONOMICS explores this thin thesis across segments directed by such documentary legends as Eugene Jarecki, Alex Gibney, and (ugh) Morgan Spurlock... but its "counterintuitive" take on capitalism ends up reinforcing some ugly ideas. PLUS: the wacky institution that is the Canadian Senate, and the long right-wing preoccupation with postmodernism. "How postmodernism became the universal scapegoat of the era" by Richard Seymour - https://www.newstatesman.com/international/2021/06/how-postmodernism-became-universal-scapegoat-era

We're still not entirely sure what the mega-bestselling 2005 book "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" was about, but it seems to have had something to do with arguing that economics is all about incentives. The 2010 anthology film adaptation FREAKONOMICS explores this thin thesis across segments directed by such documentary legends as Eugene Jarecki, Alex Gibney, and (ugh) Morgan Spurlock... but its "counterintuitive" take on capitalism ends up reinforcing some ugly ideas. PLUS: the wacky institution that is the Canadian Senate, and the long right-wing preoccupation with postmodernism. "How postmodernism became the universal scapegoat of the era" by Richard Seymour - https://www.newstatesman.com/international/2021/06/how-postmodernism-became-universal-scapegoat-era

Well before the election, we hopped on a zoom call with our friend and theme song composer Connor Vance (@connorstylevance) to talk about Eugene Jarecki's 2017 documentary, The King! It's all about Elvis and the decline of American democracy and it features Ethan Hawke as a talking head laying down some truths. We love him for it! So let's rock and roll! Keep it locked as we talk all about The King!

Jesus Hernandez is an experienced film programmer and curator, social impact entrepreneur, and producer. Founded Bach Media in 2016 to bring Cuban independent movies to bigger audiences in New York. He worked in close collaboration with film director Eugene Jarecki since 2016 as Executive Assistant and he is Associate Producer and Production Manager of The King, which premiered in Cannes Film Festival 2017 and had its US Premiere at Sundance Film Festival 2018. He founded Latin Reel in 2019, a year-round film series committed to Latin-driven storytelling in New York with the mission to present Latinx and Latino films to support, empower and make visible underrepresented voices in the United States. MORE ABOUT: Interviews by our host Renzo Esposito with directors, producers, and creatives to talk about their passion, stories, and learnings. Produced by SerProducer.com --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/serproducer-more-about/support

When NBA players walked off the court in protest over the police shooting of Jacob Blake in late August, they announced a surprising precondition for their return: that the arenas in which they played should be used as voting sites in the November 2020 election. The idea had been floated by a group of activists led by Eugene Jarecki, an Emmy and Peabody award-winning documentary filmmaker from Vermont. Jarecki is co-chair of the non-partisan Election Super Centers Project. Numerous professional sports teams have now agreed to have their stadiums and arenas serve as election centers, including the Indiana Pacers, Dallas Mavericks, Pittsburgh Steelers, Milwaukee Bucks, Golden State Warriors and Washington Wizards. Jarecki explains how the idea became reality with the help of basketball superstar LeBron James, coach Doc Rivers, and others, and why they view this move as a vital strategy to defend fair elections and American democracy.

Eugene Jarecki is an award-winning director and filmmaker and he is also the creator of the Trump Death Clock. What's the Trump Death Clock, you ask? It's a real-time tally of the cost of human lives to coronavirus, aimed directly at Trump and his administration's reckless handling of the pandemic. Eugene believes that the American people need to demand more responsible leadership and this traveling clock draws direct attention to the consequences of Trump's inaction. In today's episode Eugene explains his initial motivation for the clock (hint: it's in Times Square in New York City), the history of presidential accountability, and what city the Trump Death Clock might end up in next.Executive Producer: Adell ColemanProducer: Brittany TempleDistributor: DCP EntertainmentFor additional content: makeitplain.com See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Louis Avallone and Stephen Parr talk about how humans are not intended to be “kept safe” from all risks. There is no growth staying within your “comfort zone”. We must be able to pursue and protect our “essential liberty”.Our American Mamas, Teri Netterville and Denise Arthur are appalled by the “Trump Death Clock” put up by Eugene Jarecki in Times Square, accusing President Trump of “inaction” in addressing the coronavirus problems in New York. It totally ignores all the delays and missteps made by Governor Cuomo and Mayor De Blasio.Stephen Parr explains to Louis Avallone why he, Stephen, is now calling for the removal of John Bel Edwards from the office of Governor. John Bel Edwards has been quoted several times as saying “people need to worry less about their Rights and more about doing the right thing”. The problem is Government Edwards is not as concerned about the Right of the People of Louisiana as he is his power to rule over them, even to the extent of destroying their Rights to Liberty and to the Pursuit of Happiness.

Teri Netterville and Denise Arthur are appalled by the “Trump Death Clock” put up by Eugene Jarecki in Times Square, accusing President Trump of “inaction” in addressing the coronavirus problems in New York. It totally ignores all the delays and missteps made by Governor Cuomo and Mayor De Blasio.

Louis Avallone and Stephen Parr talk about how humans are not intended to be “kept safe” from all risks. There is no growth staying within your “comfort zone”. We must be able to pursue and protect our “essential liberty”.Our American Mamas, Teri Netterville and Denise Arthur are appalled by the “Trump Death Clock” put up by Eugene Jarecki in Times Square, accusing President Trump of “inaction” in addressing the coronavirus problems in New York. It totally ignores all the delays and missteps made by Governor Cuomo and Mayor De Blasio.Stephen Parr explains to Louis Avallone why he, Stephen, is now calling for the removal of John Bel Edwards from the office of Governor. John Bel Edwards has been quoted several times as saying “people need to worry less about their Rights and more about doing the right thing”. The problem is Government Edwards is not as concerned about the Right of the People of Louisiana as he is his power to rule over them, even to the extent of destroying their Rights to Liberty and to the Pursuit of Happiness.

Teri Netterville and Denise Arthur are appalled by the “Trump Death Clock” put up by Eugene Jarecki in Times Square, accusing President Trump of “inaction” in addressing the coronavirus problems in New York. It totally ignores all the delays and missteps made by Governor Cuomo and Mayor De Blasio.

Le réalisateur engagé, Eugene Jarecki, réagit face à l'inertie de Donald Trump vis-à-vis de la pandémie du Coronavirus.  "L’horloge de la mort de Trump": c’est ainsi qu'Eugene Jarecki a baptisé un panneau lumineux installé depuis peu à New York pour afficher le nombre de morts américains de l’épidémie qui auraient pu être évités selon lui si le président avait agi plus tôt. Selon lui, 60% des décès auraient pu être évités si le gouvernement américain avait promulgué des règles de distanciation et de fermeture des écoles une semaine plus tôt.  Eugene Jarecki a, notamment, réalisé en 2018 le documentaire "The King" dans lequel il raconte l'ascension et la chute d'Elvis Presley, lors d'une traversée des États-Unis dans la Rolls-Royce de la star. --- BJ Scott vous offre un regard décalé sur l’actualité "made in USA" dans sa séquence "Only in America", diffusée tous les mardis à 8h45 dans Coffee on the Rocks avec Raphaël Scaini.

Award-winning filmmaker, Eugene Jarecki, joins Ralph to talk about the electronic billboard he put up in New York’s Times Square, the “Trump Death Clock.” And Mark Dimondstein, head of the American Postal Workers Union, reminds how the health and safety of postal workers as well as the preservation of the post office is essential for delivering medicines and other vital goods as well as protecting democracy. Plus, listener questions!  

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In just the first two months of the pandemic, 70,000 Americans died of COVID-19–more Americans than died during the decade-long Vietnam War. Epidemiologists have written that if Trump had instituted social distancing on March 9, a week earlier than he …

In just the first two months of the pandemic, 70,000 Americans died of COVID-19–more Americans than died during the decade-long Vietnam War. Epidemiologists have written that if Trump had instituted social distancing on March 9, a week earlier than he …

We look back on some of the most memorable chats of 2018, with highlights from film-maker Eugene Jarecki, musician Róisín Murphy, photojournalist Lynsey Addario and more.

TCBCast sits down to review the Eugene Jarecki documentary "The King," discuss the film in context of Elvis' recent Medal of Freedom, then briefly review Glen Campbell's compilation of demos recorded for Elvis. For Song of the Week, Gurdip starts the holiday season early while Justin tackles Chuck Berry's famous rewrite of a classic folk song (and Elvis' subsequent cover.) Featured Songs of the Week: Gurdip: Santa Bring My Baby Back to Me Justin: Promised Land

Mark and Stuart talk to filmmaker Eugene Jarecki about his new feature length documentary The King, a star-studded musical road trip across America which draws parallels between the life of Elvis Presley and present day USA. Kamasi Washington talks to Stuart about his love of computer games and DJ Marshall Jefferson drops in as part of 6 Music’s All Day Rave, celebrating 30 years since the second summer of love.

All the best bits from the past seven days on Monocle 24, presented by Tom Edwards and Fernando Augusto Pacheco. This week: director Eugene Jarecki discusses his new documentary ‘The King’, we take a closer look at closed-system architecture with architect and author Lydia Kallipoliti and New Zealand band Tiny Ruins performs live.

Director Eugene Jarecki discusses his film, The King, with fellow director Marilyn Agrelo. The King explores the legacy of Elvis Presley forty years after his death by taking viewers on a musical road trip across America in his 1963 Rolls Royce during the 2016 presidential election. See photos and a summary of this event below: https://www.dga.org/Events/2018/Sept2018/NYDocSeries_TheKing.aspx

We meet film-maker Eugene Jarecki to hear about ‘The King’, his new documentary about Elvis and the American dream. Plus: musician Chilly Gonzales joins us to discuss his new album ‘Solo Piano III’ and we hear from artist and producer Beatrice Dillon about her recent work and appearance at Berlin Atonal festival.

Emmy and Peabody award-winning director Eugene Jarecki discusses Elvis Presley and the American Dream.  He drives Elvis's Rolls Royce across America and violently exposes our collapsing democracy and our growing materialistic illness. Find the film @ www.TheKing.film  Support the broadcast @ www.patreon.com/RIGHT Learn more @ www.TheRightToReason.com 

Nicole Sandler gives an update on the news of the day. Then she welcomes filmmaker Eugene Jarecki back to the show to discuss his new film, "The King," which uses Elvis Presley as a metaphor for America.

When Bo Burnham's EIGHTH GRADE debuted at Sundance in January, the response was mostly ecstatic - but also a little perplexed. How had a 27 year-old male stand up comic pulled off such a sincere and moving depiction of a teenage girl's middle school anxiety? How - and why? This week on the show, Adam gets to ask that very question in his interview with Burnham, as the two talk about the value of seeing human stories on the big screen and the genius of the film's star, newcomer Elsie Fisher. Plus, Adam's thoughts on the new Eugene Jarecki doc THE KING and his interview with fellow Iowan Andrew Sherburne, co-director of the new doc SAVING BRINTON. All that and this week's Filmspotting Top 5: Struggling Adolescents. 0:00-1:57 - Billboard 1:57-36:11 - Interview: Bo Burnham 36:11-42:36 - Reaction: "Eighth Grade" Zac Clark, "Drugs" 43:38-55:31 - Next Week / Notes 55:31-1:01:51 - Massacre Theatre 1:01:51-1:07:12 - AK Recommends: "The King" 1:07:12-1:19:46 - Interview: Andrew Sherburne ("Saving Brinton") Zac Clark, "Love You Later" 1:21:12-1:23:45 - Donations 1:23:45-2:01:21 - Top 5: Struggling Adolescents 2:01:21-2:04:06 - Close      Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to the Music Box podcast! where we talk about all things Music Box, that is the Music Box Theatre in Chicago. Guests: Kyle Westphal– Theatrical Sales Coordinator MBF and Programming Associate MBT Brian Andreotti– Director of Theatrical Distribution at Music Box Films and Director of Programming Music Box Theatre Ryan Oestreich – General Manager Current: THREE IDENTICAL STRANGERS – thru July 26th AMERICAN ANIMALS and EATING ANIMALS – thru July 19th This week's SHOWS: THE KING – opens Friday July 20th director Eugene Jarecki in person on Friday 7pm and Saturday 2pm Midnights THE ROOM and RHPS – Friday + Saturday Silent Cinema: THE LIGHTHOUSE KEEPERS – Saturday at 11:30am Curtiz Matinee: KENNEL MURDER CASE on Sunday at 11:30am Robin Williams Series continues with WORLD'S GREATEST DAD on Tuesday at 7pm This Old Theater And as always please rate our podcast, and feel free to email us your comments or questions. www.musicboxtheatre.com

BYT Managing Editor Brandon Wetherbee chats with award winning director Eugene Jarecki about his latest film "The King", which explores the connection between Elvis Presley and the state of the American dream.

BYT Managing Editor Brandon Wetherbee chats with award winning director Eugene Jarecki about his latest film "The King", which explores the connection between Elvis Presley and the state of the American dream.

Emmy and Peabody award-winning director Eugene Jarecki is interested in American justice, poetry in film, journalism, and Elvis Presley. In his latest documentary, 'The King,' Jarecki jumped behind the wheel of Elvis’ Rolls Royce to drive cross-country on a musical road trip in an effort to explore the loss of authenticity in America. “We’re at a time where we’re looking very closely at what the American dream really means. Who is there that any of us can think of who more poetically represents the American dream than Elvis Presley?” As a musician, Elvis began from humble roots but soon had a meteor-like career and the film is meant to highlight these parallels with America. The director added, “I think Elvis is a person who got lost and he got lost at the height of his power. Isn’t that America, too?” In addition to this audio format, the print interview for this conversation is available on Creative Screenwriting Magazine’s website. Stay up-to-date on other creative advice and watch our weekly YouTube series at www.creativeprinciples.live

His new documentary, The King, sees Elvis Presley as a symbol of the rise and fall of America. So where does that leave Col. Parker, Elvis’s manager, widely disparaged for exploiting Elvis? “We deserve what we get,” says Jarecki, referring both to democracy and rock’n’roll. But do we? I didn’t vote for Trump. A conversation about Cadillacs, capitalism, and moral responsibility. With music from Stephanie Jenkins.

Forty years after the death of Elvis Presley, two-time Sundance Grand Jury winner Eugene Jarecki’s new film takes the King’s 1963 Rolls-Royce on a musical road trip across America. From Memphis to New York, Las Vegas, and beyond, the journey traces the rise and fall of Elvis as a metaphor for the country he left behind. In this groundbreaking film, Jarecki paints a visionary portrait of the state of the American dream and a penetrating look at how the hell we got here. A diverse cast of Americans, both famous and not, join the journey, including Alec Baldwin, Rosanne Cash, Chuck D, Emmylou Harris, Ethan Hawke, Van Jones, Mike Myers, and Dan Rather, among many others. To investigate these questions, THE KING traces Elvis’ rise and fall from the Deep South to New York, Las Vegas, and countless points between. Alongside this, the film examines America in parallel, from her auspicious founding to her own struggles with excess power up to the acute challenges of today. This was always Jarecki’s intent, but he could never have anticipated the election of Donald Trump, which happened in mid-production and sent a shock wave through the filmmaking process. For news and updates go to: theking.film

Emmy and Peabody Award-winning filmmaker Eugene Jarecki drove across the U.S. in Elvis Presley's 1963 Rolls Royce to talk to people about Elvis as a metaphor for the American dream in his new documentary The King.  He traces Elvis’s journey from his birth in a Mississippi town that's barely kept alive by Elvis tourism to the musical melting pot of Memphis, and ultimately to Las Vegas and the "sweaty sequined jumpsuit Elvis" who became more of a corporate brand than a man.  He reveals how he acuired Elvis’s Rolls Royce, and how it became a beacon for people on both sides of the political divide to have a conversation about the promise of America, the sins of the past, and where our country is headed today.  Plus Eugene Jarecki talks about the perils of driving and directing and roadtripping in a 55 year old car. The King opens in theaters in NYC on 6/22 and in LA on 6/29. For information and showtimes, visit www.theking.film.  Today’s podcast was sponsored by Outside the Box podcast, LegalShield, Michelin Premiere Tires, and LightStream.

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For more, read “How Alex Gibney is Reinventing Documentary Filmmaking” by Boris Kachka in New York magazineOn Twitter: @AlexGibneyFilm @thompowers @purenonfiction This interview was recorded at the School of Visual Arts MFA Social Documentary program. Pure Nonfiction is sponsored by Sundance Now Doc Club.Documentaries directed by Alex Gibney mentioned in this interview:Zero Days (2016)Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine (2015) - A critical look at the Apple CEO.Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief (2015) - An expose of the Church of Scientology, based on the book by Lawrence Wright.Finding Fela! (2014) - A complicated portrait on the life and music of Nigeria's Fela Kuti.The Armstrong Lie (2013) - Cyclist Lance Armstrong talks about the doping program that led to his downfall.We Steal Secrets: The Story of Wikileaks (2013) - Documenting the leak of government documents by Bradley Manning, their public release by Wikileaks, and the group's controversial leader Julian Assange.Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God (2012) - Examining pedophilia in the Catholic Church, from the first known protest against clerical abuse in the US all the way to the Vatican.Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer (2010) - The former New York State governor speaks on camera about the prostitution scandal that led to his resignation.Taxi to the Dark Side (2007) - Oscar winner for Best Documentary, investigating the US government's use of torture during the war in Afghanistan.Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (2005) - Chronicling the corruption that caused the company Enron to file for the largest corporate bankruptcy of its time.Documentaries produced by Gibney, mentioned in the interview:The Blues (2003) - Executive produced by Martin Scorsese, this multi-part series featured films directed by Scorsese, Wim Wenders, Clint Eastwood, Marc Levin, and others.The Trials of Henry Kissinger (2002) - directed by Eugene Jarecki, the film takes its inspiration from Christopher Hitchens' book making a case for bringing war crime charges against the former Secretary of State.The Pacific Century (1992) - a 10-part PBS series about the rise of the Pacific Rim economies. Alex's father Frank Gibney wrote the accompanying book.

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Nicole bids goodbye to her nemesis congressman Allen West with an audio montage. She welcomes her favorite Congressman - Alan Grayson back to Congress when he guests on the show. Plus "The House That I Live In" director Eugene Jarecki talks about the failed War on Drugs, and comedian/actress Maysoon Zayid

This soon-to-be-released, 2012 Sundance Grand Jury Prize-winning documentary about the so-called “War on Drugs” will be specially screened on November 1 at NACDL's 5th Annual Defending the Drug Case seminar at the Planet Hollywood Hotel in Las Vegas. This week, we caught up with criminal defense attorney, former public defender, journalist, and Emmy-nominated director and producer David Kuhn at Charlotte Street Films. He is leading the outreach program to deploy Eugene Jarecki's “The House I Live In” for social reform and will be presenting the film to attendees at NACDL's Defending the Drug Case seminar. Learn more about NACDL. Steven Logan, production supervisor. Music West Bank (Lezet) / CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 and Walkabout (Digital Primitives) / CC BY-NC-ND 3.0. Running time: 13m 44s.

We spend the hour with Eugene Jarecki, director of "The House I Live In", a tale of the impact of the war on drugs on Black people and the US' development as a prison state. Jarecki explores the history of the war on drugs, how it's been used against oppressed nationalities in the past and today. He explores what he calls "a slow holocaust" and the warning signs of an encroaching genocide. "The House I Live In" won the Grand Jury Prize, Documentary Division at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival.

“Wild” Bill Lindley explores why we fight wars. He basis the discussion around the documentary Why We Fight (2005), directed by Eugene Jarecki, about the military-industrial complex. The title refers to the World War II-era newsreels commissioned by the U.S. Government during World War II to explain why we fight. The show discusses the rise and maintenance of the United States military-industrial complex and its fifty-year involvement with the wars led by the United States to date, especially its 2003 Invasion of Iraq and now the potential in Iran. There have been lies to get us into the Spanish-American War, Vietnam, and other smaller wars and we have engaged in other wars, Tripoli for example, in defense of commerce and now some believe for oil and corporate interest. The documentary Why We Fight asserts that in every decade since World War II, the American public was told a lie, so that the Government (incumbent Administration) could take them to war and fuel the military-industrial economy maintaining American political dominance in the world.The issue of American destiny, the idea of spreading democracy, the doctrine of preemptive war, why so many hate us, blowback, Granada, Lebanon, Laos, Guatemala, the Gulf of Tonkin and Vietnam, the Maine and the Spanish American War, and now we must ask why we may fight Iran.See the doumentary: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=9219858826421983682#

“Wild” Bill Lindley explores why we fight wars. He basis the discussion around the documentary Why We Fight (2005), directed by Eugene Jarecki, about the military-industrial complex. The title refers to the World War II-era newsreels commissioned by the U.S. Government during World War II to explain why we fight. The show discusses the rise and maintenance of the United States military-industrial complex and its fifty-year involvement with the wars led by the United States to date, especially its 2003 Invasion of Iraq and now the potential in Iran. There have been lies to get us into the Spanish-American War, Vietnam, and other smaller wars and we have engaged in other wars, Tripoli for example, in defense of commerce and now some believe for oil and corporate interest. The documentary Why We Fight asserts that in every decade since World War II, the American public was told a lie, so that the Government (incumbent Administration) could take them to war and fuel the military-industrial economy maintaining American political dominance in the world.The issue of American destiny, the idea of spreading democracy, the doctrine of preemptive war, why so many hate us, blowback, Granada, Lebanon, Laos, Guatemala, the Gulf of Tonkin and Vietnam, the Maine and the Spanish American War, and now we must ask why we may fight Iran.See the doumentary: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=9219858826421983682#

WHY WE FIGHT, the new film by Eugene Jarecki which won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival, is an unflinching look at the anatomy of the American war machine, weaving unforgettable personal stories with commentary by … Continue reading →