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
Armed Only with a Camera: The Life and Death of Brent Renaud
Self
Life of Crime: 1984-2020
Director
Finding the Way Home
Director
All For One: Media Enabled Musketeers
Cuba and the Cameraman
Self
Rock and a Hard Place
Director
Banking on Bitcoin
Executive Producer
Mariela Castro's March: Cuba's LGBT Revolution
Director
The Latin Explosion: A New America
Director
Redemption
Director
In Tahrir Square: 18 Days of Egypt's Unfinished Revolution
Director
Wartorn: 1861-2010
Director
No Contract, No Cookies: The Stella D'Oro Strike
Director
China's Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province
Director
Dirty Driving: Thundercars Of Indiana
Director
A Woman Among Boys
Director
Access Denied?: The Fight for Corporate Accountability
Director
Section 60: Arlington National Cemetery
Director
Alive Day Memories: Home from Iraq
Director
Latin Kings: A Street Gang Story
Director
Addiction
Director
Baghdad ER
Producer
The Last Cowboy
Director
Bridge to Baghdad II
Director
Bridge to Baghdad
Director
Afghanistan: From Ground Zero to Ground Zero
Director
Papa
Director
Life of Crime 2
Editor
A Cinderella Season: The Lady Vols Fight Back
Director
High on Crack Street: Lost Lives in Lowell
Narrator (voice)
Lock-Up: The Prisoners of Rikers Island
Producer
One Year in a Life of Crime
Self
The Story of Junkie Junior
Director
The Philippines: Life, Death and Revolution
Director
Hard Metal Disease
Director
Open Space
Third Avenue: Only the Strong Survive
Director
Healthcare: Your Money or Your Life
Producer
Vietnam: Picking up the Pieces
Director
Chinatown: Immigrants in America
Narrator
Cuba: The People
Narrator
The Raging Rabbi
Director