​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Eugene Jarecki is an author and a dramatic and documentary filmmaker based in New York. His works include Why We Fight, which won the 2005 Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, The Trials of Henry Kissinger, Reagan, Freakonomics, Quest of the Carib Canoe, and Season of the Lifterbees. Description above from the Wikipedia article Eugene Jarecki, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors... see more