Jon Alpert

Directing·Jan 1, 1948·Port Chester, New York, USA

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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.

Film	Credit
Armed Only with a Camera: The Life and Death of Brent Renaud2025 · Self, Director of Photography	Self, Director of Photography
Life of Crime: 1984-20202021 · Director, Director of Photography	Director, Director of Photography
Finding the Way Home2019 · Director, Producer, Director of Photography	Director, Producer, Director of Photography
All For One: Media Enabled Musketeers2018 · Actor, Director, Producer	Actor, Director, Producer
Cuba and the Cameraman2017 · Self, Screenplay, Director, Director of Photography	Self, Screenplay, Director, Director of Photography
Rock and a Hard Place2017 · Director	Director
Mariela Castro's March: Cuba's LGBT Revolution2016 · Director	Director
The Latin Explosion: A New America2015 · Director	Director
Redemption2013 · Director	Director
In Tahrir Square: 18 Days of Egypt's Unfinished Revolution2012 · Director	Director
Wartorn: 1861-20102010 · Director	Director
No Contract, No Cookies: The Stella D'Oro Strike2010 · Director, Director of Photography, Producer	Director, Director of Photography, Producer
China's Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province2009 · Director	Director
Dirty Driving: Thundercars Of Indiana2008 · Director, Director of Photography, Producer	Director, Director of Photography, Producer
A Woman Among Boys2008 · Director	Director
AAccess Denied?: The Fight for Corporate Accountability2008 · Director	Director
Section 60: Arlington National Cemetery2008 · Director, Producer, Director of Photography	Director, Producer, Director of Photography
Alive Day Memories: Home from Iraq2007 · Director, Producer, Director of Photography	Director, Producer, Director of Photography
Latin Kings: A Street Gang Story2007 · Director	Director
Addiction2007 · Director	Director
Baghdad ER2006 · Producer, Director	Producer, Director
The Last Cowboy2005 · Director	Director
BBridge to Baghdad2003 · Director	Director
BBridge to Baghdad II2003 · Director	Director
AAfghanistan: From Ground Zero to Ground Zero2002 · Director	Director
Papa2002 · Director, Director of Photography	Director, Director of Photography
Life of Crime 21998 · Producer, Director	Producer, Director
A Cinderella Season: The Lady Vols Fight Back1998 · Director	Director
High on Crack Street: Lost Lives in Lowell1995 · Narrator (voice), Writer, Director	Narrator (voice), Writer, Director
Lock-Up: The Prisoners of Rikers Island1994 · Director, Producer	Director, Producer
One Year in a Life of Crime1989 · Self, Director, Producer	Self, Director, Producer
The Story of Junkie Junior1987 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
The Philippines: Life, Death and Revolution1986 · Director	Director
HHard Metal Disease1984 · Director	Director
Third Avenue: Only the Strong Survive1980 · Director	Director
Healthcare: Your Money or Your Life1978 · Producer	Producer
Vietnam: Picking up the Pieces1978 · Director, Producer	Director, Producer
Chinatown: Immigrants in America1976 · Narrator, Director, Writer	Narrator, Director, Writer
Cuba: The People1974 · Narrator, Director, Producer, Writer	Narrator, Director, Producer, Writer
TThe Raging RabbiDirector	Director