- Known For
- Directing
- Born
- January 1, 1948
- Place of Birth
- Port Chester, New York, USA
Jon Alpert
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. …
Filmography
movieArmed Only with a Camera: The Life and Death of Brent Renaud
2025 · Self, Executive Producer, Director of Photography, Editor
movieLife of Crime: 1984-2020
2021 · Director, Director of Photography
movieFinding the Way Home
2019 · Director, Producer, Director of Photography
movieAll For One: Media Enabled Musketeers
2018 · , Director, Producer
movieCuba and the Cameraman
2017 · Self, Screenplay, Director, Director of Photography
movieRock and a Hard Place
2017 · Director
movieBanking on Bitcoin
2016 · Executive Producer
movieMariela Castro's March: Cuba's LGBT Revolution
2016 · Director
movieThe Latin Explosion: A New America
2015 · Director
movieRedemption
2013 · Director
movieIn Tahrir Square: 18 Days of Egypt's Unfinished Revolution
2012 · Director
movieWartorn: 1861-2010
2010 · Director
movieNo Contract, No Cookies: The Stella D'Oro Strike
2010 · Director, Director of Photography, Producer
movieChina's Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province
2009 · Director
movieDirty Driving: Thundercars Of Indiana
2008 · Director, Director of Photography, Producer
movieA Woman Among Boys
2008 · Director
Access Denied?: The Fight for Corporate Accountability
movieAccess Denied?: The Fight for Corporate Accountability
2008 · Director
movieSection 60: Arlington National Cemetery
2008 · Director, Producer, Director of Photography
movieAlive Day Memories: Home from Iraq
2007 · Director, Producer, Director of Photography
movieLatin Kings: A Street Gang Story
2007 · Director
movieAddiction
2007 · Director
movieBaghdad ER
2006 · Producer, Director
movieThe Last Cowboy
2005 · Director
Bridge to Baghdad
movieBridge to Baghdad
2003 · Director
Bridge to Baghdad II
movieBridge to Baghdad II
2003 · Director
Afghanistan: From Ground Zero to Ground Zero
movieAfghanistan: From Ground Zero to Ground Zero
2002 · Director
moviePapa
2002 · Director, Director of Photography
movieLife of Crime 2
1998 · Cinematography, Producer, Editor, Director
movieA Cinderella Season: The Lady Vols Fight Back
1998 · Director
movieHigh on Crack Street: Lost Lives in Lowell
1995 · Narrator (voice), Writer, Director, Editor
movieLock-Up: The Prisoners of Rikers Island
1994 · Director, Producer
movieOne Year in a Life of Crime
1989 · Self, Director, Producer
movieThe Story of Junkie Junior
1987 · Director, Writer, Cinematography
movieThe Philippines: Life, Death and Revolution
1986 · Director
Hard Metal Disease
movieHard Metal Disease
1984 · Director
Open Space
tvOpen Space
1983
movieThird Avenue: Only the Strong Survive
1980 · Director
movieHealthcare: Your Money or Your Life
1978 · Producer
movieVietnam: Picking up the Pieces
1978 · Director, Producer
movieChinatown: Immigrants in America
1976 · Narrator, Director, Writer, Co-Producer, Cinematography
movieCuba: The People
1974 · Narrator, Director, Producer, Writer
The Raging Rabbi
movieThe Raging Rabbi
— · Director