Direction: Jay Rosenblatt
The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Jay Rosenblatt. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.
Human Remains
1998 · Documentary · 30 min. · United States
Direction Jay Rosenblatt
Cast Eva Braun · Adolf Hitler · V.I. Lenin · Mao Zedong
Plot Human Remains is a haunting documentary which illustrates the banality of evil by creating intimate portraits of five of the 20th century's most reviled dictators. The film unveils the personal...
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93 votes
6.6
93 votes
When We Were Bullies
2021 · Documentary · 36 min. · Germany
Direction Jay Rosenblatt
Cast Richard J. Silberg · Mark Athitakis · Ruth ‘Bobbe’ Bromberg · Wendy Newman
Plot A mind-boggling coincidence leads the filmmaker to track down his fifth grade class and fifth grade teacher to examine their memory of and complicity in a bullying incident 50 years...
5.3
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5.3
87 votes
I Like It a Lot (S)
2004 · Documentary · 4 min. · United States
Direction Jay Rosenblatt
Cast Ella Rosenblatt
Plot A two year old, an ice cream cone and a clean, white shirt.
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Inquire Within (S)
2012 · Movie · 4 min. · United States
Direction Jay Rosenblatt
Plot A hypnotic, apocalyptic examination of false choices, double binds, vulnerability and faith.
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Underground Zero
2002 · Documentary · 76 min. · United States
Direction Frazer Bradshaw · Eva Ilona Brzeski · Norman Cowie · David Driver
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The Smell of Burning Ants (S)
1994 · Documentary · 21 min. · United States
Direction Jay Rosenblatt
Plot A haunting documentary on the pains of growing up male. It explores the inner and outer cruelties that boys perpetrate and endure. The film provokes the viewer to reflect on...
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I Just Wanted to Be Somebody (S)
2007 · Documentary · 10 min. · United States
Direction Jay Rosenblatt
Cast Anita Bryant
Plot Newsreels, commercials, and home movies are used to study the life and influence of Anita Bryant.
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How Do You Measure a Year?
2021 · Documentary · 29 min. · United States
Direction Jay Rosenblatt
Cast Ella Rosenblatt
Plot A father films his daughter every year on her birthday, asking the same questions. In a mere 29 minutes we see a girl go from a toddler to a young...
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Worm (S)
2001 · Movie · 2 min. · United States
Direction Jay Rosenblatt · Caveh Zahedi
Plot An off-screen narrator remembers a time he was five years old, walking to school in a heavy rain, wearing a yellow slicker and cap. He relates to us that a...
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The Darkness of Day
2009 · Documentary · 26 min. · United States
Direction Jay Rosenblatt
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Beginning Filmmaking (S)
2008 · Documentary · 23 min. · United States
Direction Jay Rosenblatt
Cast Ella Rosenblatt
Plot A father takes us through one year of trying to teach a preschooler how to make a film.
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Friend Good (S)
2003 · Documentary · 5 min. · United States
Direction Jay Rosenblatt
Cast Boris Karloff
Plot Mary Shelley’s writing combines with Boris Karloff’s performance to re-work the myth of Frankenstein. In five minutes the “monster” moves through the very human journey from self-hatred to self-acceptance.
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I'm Charlie Chaplin (S)
2005 · Documentary · 8 min. · United States
Direction Jay Rosenblatt
Cast Ella Rosenblatt
Plot Ella is two and a half years old. She has two great loves: Charlie Chaplin and candy. What better way to have both at once than to be The Little...
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The Claustrum (S)
2014 · Documentary · 16 min. · United States
Direction Jay Rosenblatt
Plot Three women are in enclosed psychological zones that function as both refuge and jail.
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Phantom Limb
2005 · Documentary · 28 min. · United States
Direction Jay Rosenblatt
Cast Tyler Cassity · Chris Cornet · John Lambert · George Dalzell
Plot The death of my seven-year-old brother when I was nine remains a painful and haunting memory. My parents did not know how to cope with the loss of their child...
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King of the Jews (S)
2000 · Documentary · 18 min. · United States
Direction Jay Rosenblatt
Plot King of the Jews is a film about anti-Semitism and transcendence. Utilizing Hollywood movies, 1950's educational films, personal home movies and religious films, the filmmaker depicts his childhood fear of...
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I Used to Be a Filmmaker (S)
2003 · Documentary · 10 min. · United States
Direction Jay Rosenblatt
Plot A lovely chronicle of Jay Rosenblatt’s young daughter Ella in the first years of her life, this touching and surprisingly funny short is equally an indirect look at Rosenblatt’s new,...
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