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...

6.6

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

87 votes

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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Prayer (S)

2002 · Documentary · 3 min. · United States

Direction Jay Rosenblatt

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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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Restricted (S)

2001 · Documentary · 1 min. · United States

Direction Jay Rosenblatt

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Underground Zero

2002 · Documentary · 76 min. · United States

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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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Afraid So (S)

2006 · Movie · 3 min. · United States

Direction Jay Rosenblatt

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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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