Jon Alpert

Known For

Directing

Born

Jan 01, 1948

Place of Birth

Port Chester, New York, USA

Credits

42 titles

Jon Alpert

Biography

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jon Alpert (born c. 1948) is an American journalist and documentary filmmaker, known for his use of a cinéma vérité approach in his films. A native of Port Chester, New York, Alpert is a 1970 graduate of Colgate University, and has a black belt in karate. Alpert has traveled widely as an investigative journalist, and has made films for NBC, PBS, and HBO. Over the course of his career, he has won 15 Emmy Awards and three DuPont-Columbia Awards. He has been nominated for a 2010 Academy Award in the category of Best Documentary, Short Subject for China's Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province. He has reported from Vietnam, Cambodia, Iran, Nicaragua, the Philippines, Cuba, China, and Afghanistan. In 1972, Alpert and his wife, Keiko Tsuno, founded the Downtown Community Television Center, one of the country's first community media centers. He has interviewed Fidel Castro several times, and was one of the few Western journalists to have conducted a videotaped interview with Saddam Hussein since the Persian Gulf War. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jon Alpert, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For

Filmography

2025

Armed Only with a Camera: The Life and Death of Brent Renaud

Self

Movie
2021

Life of Crime: 1984-2020

Director

Movie
2019

Finding the Way Home

Director

Movie
2018

All For One: Media Enabled Musketeers

Movie
2017

Cuba and the Cameraman

Self

Movie
2017

Rock and a Hard Place

Director

Movie
2016

Banking on Bitcoin

Executive Producer

Movie
2016

Mariela Castro's March: Cuba's LGBT Revolution

Director

Movie
2015

The Latin Explosion: A New America

Director

Movie
2013

Redemption

Director

Movie
2012

In Tahrir Square: 18 Days of Egypt's Unfinished Revolution

Director

Movie
2010

Wartorn: 1861-2010

Director

Movie
2010

No Contract, No Cookies: The Stella D'Oro Strike

Director

Movie
2009

China's Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province

Director

Movie
2008

Dirty Driving: Thundercars Of Indiana

Director

Movie
2008

A Woman Among Boys

Director

Movie
2008

Access Denied?: The Fight for Corporate Accountability

Director

Movie
2008

Section 60: Arlington National Cemetery

Director

Movie
2007

Alive Day Memories: Home from Iraq

Director

Movie
2007

Latin Kings: A Street Gang Story

Director

Movie
2007

Addiction

Director

Movie
2006

Baghdad ER

Producer

Movie
2005

The Last Cowboy

Director

Movie
2003

Bridge to Baghdad II

Director

Movie
2003

Bridge to Baghdad

Director

Movie
2002

Afghanistan: From Ground Zero to Ground Zero

Director

Movie
2002

Papa

Director

Movie
1998

Life of Crime 2

Editor

Movie
1998

A Cinderella Season: The Lady Vols Fight Back

Director

Movie
1995

High on Crack Street: Lost Lives in Lowell

Narrator (voice)

Movie
1994

Lock-Up: The Prisoners of Rikers Island

Producer

Movie
1989

One Year in a Life of Crime

Self

Movie
1987

The Story of Junkie Junior

Director

Movie
1986

The Philippines: Life, Death and Revolution

Director

Movie
1984

Hard Metal Disease

Director

Movie
1983

Open Space

Tv
1980

Third Avenue: Only the Strong Survive

Director

Movie
1978

Healthcare: Your Money or Your Life

Producer

Movie
1978

Vietnam: Picking up the Pieces

Director

Movie
1976

Chinatown: Immigrants in America

Narrator

Movie
1974

Cuba: The People

Narrator

Movie
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The Raging Rabbi

Director

Movie