Bret Hart, five times champion of the WWF, sits in a hotel room one day before the most important fight of his life. Sure, it is just professional...
About Counterspin Films
Paul Jay is the President of Counterspin Films, a production company based in Toronto and New York. After three years as a post office truck driver and five as a railroad Carman mechanic, Jay decided it was time to make films. Years later, he's still at it.
Jay is currently producing the feature documentary "How to Stop a Nuclear War," based on Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg's book "The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner." Narrated by Emma Thompson with additional support from Kristen Stewart, the film picks up where "The Day After" and "Oppenheimer" left off — a gripping political thriller unveiling present-day nuclear dangers and proposing concrete solutions.
Jay has completed over 40 hours of interviews with Ellsberg and secured participation from more than 100 distinguished experts, including Senator Sam Nunn, Governor Jerry Brown, Richard Rhodes, Kai Bird, Peter Kuznick, Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, and Ben Rhodes.
The Hollywood Reporter has published five exclusive articles on the upcoming documentary:
- Daniel Ellsberg 'How to Stop Nuclear War' Documentary in the Works
- Emma Thompson to Narrate Daniel Ellsberg Documentary 'How to Stop Nuclear War'
- Barbra Streisand Kept Pentagon Papers Leaker Daniel Ellsberg Out of Jail, Says Filmmaker
- 'The Day After' Director Nicholas Meyer to Exec Produce Daniel Ellsberg Documentary 'How to Stop Nuclear War'
- Kristen Stewart Warns the World Is "Dangerously Close" to Nuclear Catastrophe
Films
Nelofer Pazira, star of the movie Kandahar, returns to Afghanistan to seek out her childhood friend Dyana, whose story inspired that film. Landing in...
A portrait of politics at its most personal. As the cameras roll, two Montreal couples start talking Quebec sovereignty and their marriages, families...
On the eve of the Nevada primaries, Paul Jay reveals Las Vegas as a model of neoliberalism, a tale of the shape of things to come, told through a...
Episode 1 — White Smoking Devil. The opening chapter of a sweeping documentary on the machine gun: how a single invention remade warfare, powered...
Documentaries
Machine Gun and the Rise of US Empire – Ep2 – The Gun Comes Home then Goes to War Again
Episode 2 — The Gun Comes Home Then Goes to War Again. After the American Civil War, the machine gun returns as an instrument of domestic repression...
Episode 3 — Age of the Kalashnikov. From the trenches of two world wars to the anti-colonial uprisings of the 20th century, the AK-47 becomes the...
The rise and fall of socialism in Albania. A people mired in poverty for centuries stood up to Nazi fascism and began to build a socialist...
What is the meaning of language? How and where did it begin? This original and challenging film explores human evolution and the development of...