Jason Cohn

Directing

Jason Cohn

Known for

Directing

Credits

10 titles

Jason Cohn is a writer, producer and director who has worked in print, radio, television and film. He is the Peabody Award-winning director of EAMES: The Architect and the Painter and The First Angry Man, which traces the roots of the American Tax Revolt to a California ballot initiative. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, The Los Angeles Times and Rolling Stone Magazine.

Known for

Modernism, Inc.: The Eliot Noyes Design Story poster
4.0

The life and work of influential mid-century architect and designer Eliot Noyes, who is best remembered as the man behind IBM's landmark design program in the 1950s and 1960s.

Modernism, Inc.: The Eliot Noyes Design Story

2024

TEZUKA! God of Manga poster
NR

Osamu Tezuka is known as the “God of Manga.” He was the genius Japanese artist who pioneered manga and anime after WWII. He’s often compared to Walt Disney, but that’s a disservice to Tezuka —that’s how much he contributed and how influential he was.

TEZUKA! God of Manga

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Eames: The Architect and the Painter poster
7.0

Interviews with the junior designers swept into the 24-7 world of "The Eamery" are the heart of this complex picture of a husband-and-wife creative team that define the era of Mid-Century Modernism. Narrated by James Franco, the film draws from a trove of archival material, primarily the stunning films and photographs produced in mind-boggling volume by Charles, Ray, and their staff during the hyper-creative forty years of the Eames Office.

Eames: The Architect and the Painter

2011

Bible Belt Atheist poster
NR

In this short documentary, a former Pentecostal preacher starts a secular congregation in the heart of the Bible Belt.

Bible Belt Atheist

2015

The Ornament of the World poster
7.8

Filmed in Cordoba, Granada, Seville, and Toledo, this documentary retraces the 800-year period in medieval Spain when Muslims, Christians, and Jews forged a common cultural identity that frequently transcended their religious differences, revealing what made this rare and fruitful collaboration possible, and what ultimately tore it apart.

The Ornament of the World

2019

The First Angry Man poster
NR

“The First Angry Man” unpacks the dramatic campaign that slashed property taxes in California, leading to the collapse of the great public ambitions of postwar America and launched a nationwide tax revolt that continues unabated today.

The First Angry Man

2019

Behind the camera

Modernism, Inc.: The Eliot Noyes Design Story poster
4.0

The life and work of influential mid-century architect and designer Eliot Noyes, who is best remembered as the man behind IBM's landmark design program in the 1950s and 1960s.

Modernism, Inc.: The Eliot Noyes Design Story

2024

Modernism, Inc.: The Eliot Noyes Design Story poster
4.0

The life and work of influential mid-century architect and designer Eliot Noyes, who is best remembered as the man behind IBM's landmark design program in the 1950s and 1960s.

Modernism, Inc.: The Eliot Noyes Design Story

2024

TEZUKA! God of Manga poster
NR

Osamu Tezuka is known as the “God of Manga.” He was the genius Japanese artist who pioneered manga and anime after WWII. He’s often compared to Walt Disney, but that’s a disservice to Tezuka —that’s how much he contributed and how influential he was.

TEZUKA! God of Manga

—

TEZUKA! God of Manga poster
NR

Osamu Tezuka is known as the “God of Manga.” He was the genius Japanese artist who pioneered manga and anime after WWII. He’s often compared to Walt Disney, but that’s a disservice to Tezuka —that’s how much he contributed and how influential he was.

TEZUKA! God of Manga

—

Eames: The Architect and the Painter poster
7.0

Interviews with the junior designers swept into the 24-7 world of "The Eamery" are the heart of this complex picture of a husband-and-wife creative team that define the era of Mid-Century Modernism. Narrated by James Franco, the film draws from a trove of archival material, primarily the stunning films and photographs produced in mind-boggling volume by Charles, Ray, and their staff during the hyper-creative forty years of the Eames Office.

Eames: The Architect and the Painter

2011

Eames: The Architect and the Painter poster
7.0

Interviews with the junior designers swept into the 24-7 world of "The Eamery" are the heart of this complex picture of a husband-and-wife creative team that define the era of Mid-Century Modernism. Narrated by James Franco, the film draws from a trove of archival material, primarily the stunning films and photographs produced in mind-boggling volume by Charles, Ray, and their staff during the hyper-creative forty years of the Eames Office.

Eames: The Architect and the Painter

2011

Bible Belt Atheist poster
NR

In this short documentary, a former Pentecostal preacher starts a secular congregation in the heart of the Bible Belt.

Bible Belt Atheist

2015

Bible Belt Atheist poster
NR

In this short documentary, a former Pentecostal preacher starts a secular congregation in the heart of the Bible Belt.

Bible Belt Atheist

2015

The Ornament of the World poster
7.8

Filmed in Cordoba, Granada, Seville, and Toledo, this documentary retraces the 800-year period in medieval Spain when Muslims, Christians, and Jews forged a common cultural identity that frequently transcended their religious differences, revealing what made this rare and fruitful collaboration possible, and what ultimately tore it apart.

The Ornament of the World

2019

The First Angry Man poster
NR

“The First Angry Man” unpacks the dramatic campaign that slashed property taxes in California, leading to the collapse of the great public ambitions of postwar America and launched a nationwide tax revolt that continues unabated today.

The First Angry Man

2019