Jon Alpert
Directing
1948-01-01 · Port Chester, New York, USA
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.
Filmography
Armed Only with a Camera: The Life and Death of Brent Renaud
2025 · Movie
Life of Crime: 1984-2020
2021 · Movie
Finding the Way Home
2019 · Movie
All For One: Media Enabled Musketeers
2018 · Movie
Cuba and the Cameraman
2017 · Movie
Rock and a Hard Place
2017 · Movie
Banking on Bitcoin
2016 · Movie
Mariela Castro's March: Cuba's LGBT Revolution
2016 · Movie
The Latin Explosion: A New America
2015 · Movie
Redemption
2013 · Movie
In Tahrir Square: 18 Days of Egypt's Unfinished Revolution
2012 · Movie
Wartorn: 1861-2010
2010 · Movie
No Contract, No Cookies: The Stella D'Oro Strike
2010 · Movie
China's Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province
2009 · Movie
Dirty Driving: Thundercars Of Indiana
2008 · Movie
A Woman Among Boys
2008 · Movie
Access Denied?: The Fight for Corporate Accountability
2008 · Movie
Section 60: Arlington National Cemetery
2008 · Movie
Alive Day Memories: Home from Iraq
2007 · Movie
Latin Kings: A Street Gang Story
2007 · Movie
Addiction
2007 · Movie
Baghdad ER
2006 · Movie
The Last Cowboy
2005 · Movie
Bridge to Baghdad II
2003 · Movie
Bridge to Baghdad
2003 · Movie
Afghanistan: From Ground Zero to Ground Zero
2002 · Movie
Papa
2002 · Movie
Life of Crime 2
1998 · Movie
A Cinderella Season: The Lady Vols Fight Back
1998 · Movie
High on Crack Street: Lost Lives in Lowell
1995 · Movie
Lock-Up: The Prisoners of Rikers Island
1994 · Movie
One Year in a Life of Crime
1989 · Movie
The Story of Junkie Junior
1987 · Movie
The Philippines: Life, Death and Revolution
1986 · Movie
Hard Metal Disease
1984 · Movie
Open Space
1983 · Series
Third Avenue: Only the Strong Survive
1980 · Movie
Vietnam: Picking up the Pieces
1978 · Movie
Healthcare: Your Money or Your Life
1978 · Movie
Chinatown: Immigrants in America
1976 · Movie
Cuba: The People
1974 · Movie
The Raging Rabbi
Movie