A film by Paul Jay and Nelofer Pazira (2002) Nelofer Pazira, returns from Canada to Afghanistan to seek out her childhood friend Dyana. While living under vicious Taliban rule, Dyana wrote Nelofer a haunting letter that ended, “you will have to live for both of us now”. Fearing the worst, in 2002...
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SynopsisReviewsAwardsBret Hart, five times’ champion of the World Wrestling Federation, sits in a hotel room – one day before the most important fight of his life. Sure, it’s just professional wrestling, but this match is different. It will be Bret’s last in the WWF, a company for whom he’s been...
Paul Jay's Lost in Las Vegas (2001), is a film about reality and fantasy, money and morality, and the price one pays to chase a dream. Vegas is the place where the American soul is most naked and extreme. Is Vegas a bizarre distortion of American values, or is it the shape of things to come?
Documentaries, History of the Machine Gun
Machine Gun and the Rise of US Empire – Ep1 – White Smoking Devil
SynopsisReviewsAt the center of every armed conflict of the 20th Century, the machine gun has been a tool of conquest – and of liberation. Everywhere, it has unleashed consequences its creators never imagined. This is the history of one of the world’s deadliest inventions, a story of...
Documentaries, History of the Machine Gun
Machine Gun and the Rise of US Empire – Ep 3 – Age of Kalashnikov’s AK 47
SynopsisReviewsAt the center of every armed conflict of the 20th Century, the machine gun has been a tool of conquest – and of liberation. Everywhere, it has unleashed consequences its creators never imagined. This is the history of one of the world’s deadliest inventions, a story of...
Documentaries, History of the Machine Gun
Machine Gun and the Rise of US Empire – Ep2 – The Gun Comes Home then Goes to War Again
SynopsisReviewsAt the center of every armed conflict of the 20th Century, the machine gun has been a tool of conquest – and of liberation. Everywhere, it has unleashed consequences its creators never imagined. This is the history of one of the world’s deadliest inventions, a story of...
SynopsisQ&AReviews“This is what we never talk about.” – Rick Blue“We don’t allow ourselves to talk about these things. It’s a question of survival of the couple.” – Roxanne MajeauNever-Endum Referendum is politics at its most personal. Rick and...
Note: After the film was completed, Martha Hart and the Hart family sued WWF and Vince McMahon. It was settled out of court for approximately $18 million on November 2, 2000. SynopsisReviewsToronto Star – Wrenching . . . a heartbreaker Globe & Mail – Another winner Newsday – A...
SynopsisReviewsA film by Paul Jay about the rise and fall of socialism in Albania. Released in September, 1995, the film tells the story of a people mired in poverty for centuries, who stood up to Nazi fascism and began to build a socialist and independent country. It’s about the lessons learned as...
SynopsisReviewsA film by Paul Jay. What is the meaning of language? How and where did it begin? This highly original and challenging film examines these questions as it explores human evolution and the development of language. THE BIRTH OF LANGUAGE uses a unique combination of extraordinary...