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Jon Alpert

Jon Alpert

Director · Born 1948-01-01 · Port Chester, New York, USA

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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…

Directed

  1. Cuba and the Cameraman (2017) — Director
  2. Life of Crime: 1984-2020 (2021) — Director
  3. Rock and a Hard Place (2017) — Director
  4. High on Crack Street: Lost Lives in Lowell (1995) — Director
  5. Redemption (2013) — Director
  6. The Latin Explosion: A New America (2015) — Director
  7. In Tahrir Square: 18 Days of Egypt's Unfinished Revolution (2012) — Director
  8. Mariela Castro's March: Cuba's LGBT Revolution (2016) — Director
  9. Wartorn: 1861-2010 (2010) — Director
  10. Alive Day Memories: Home from Iraq (2007) — Director
  11. China's Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province (2009) — Director
  12. Baghdad ER (2006) — Director
  13. Lock-Up: The Prisoners of Rikers Island (1994) — Director
  14. One Year in a Life of Crime (1989) — Director
  15. Life of Crime 2 (1998) — Director
  16. Dirty Driving: Thundercars Of Indiana (2008) — Director
  17. No Contract, No Cookies: The Stella D'Oro Strike (2010) — Director
  18. Addiction (2007) — Director
  19. Section 60: Arlington National Cemetery (2008) — Director
  20. Finding the Way Home (2019) — Director
  21. Latin Kings: A Street Gang Story (2007) — Director
  22. All For One: Media Enabled Musketeers (2018) — Director
  23. The Story of Junkie Junior (1987) — Director
  24. Papa (2002) — Director
  25. Third Avenue: Only the Strong Survive (1980) — Director
  26. Afghanistan: From Ground Zero to Ground Zero (2002) — Director
  27. Cuba: The People (1974) — Director
  28. The Philippines: Life, Death and Revolution (1986) — Director
  29. A Cinderella Season: The Lady Vols Fight Back (1998) — Director
  30. The Last Cowboy (2005) — Director
  31. The Raging Rabbi — Director
  32. A Woman Among Boys (2008) — Director
  33. Hard Metal Disease (1984) — Director
  34. Chinatown: Immigrants in America (1976) — Director
  35. Access Denied?: The Fight for Corporate Accountability (2008) — Director
  36. Bridge to Baghdad (2003) — Director
  37. Bridge to Baghdad II (2003) — Director
  38. Vietnam: Picking up the Pieces (1978) — Director

Also appeared in

  1. Cuba and the Cameraman (2017) — Self
  2. Armed Only with a Camera: The Life and Death of Brent Renaud (2025) — Self
  3. High on Crack Street: Lost Lives in Lowell (1995) — Narrator (voice)
  4. One Year in a Life of Crime (1989) — Self
  5. All For One: Media Enabled Musketeers (2018)
  6. Cuba: The People (1974) — Narrator
  7. Chinatown: Immigrants in America (1976) — Narrator
  8. Open Space (1983)