Directing
Jon Alpert
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.
Known for
Cuba and the Cameraman
Banking on Bitcoin
Life of Crime: 1984-2020
Armed Only with a Camera: The Life and Death of Brent Renaud
Rock and a Hard Place
High on Crack Street: Lost Lives in Lowell
Redemption
The Latin Explosion: A New America
Mariela Castro's March: Cuba's LGBT Revolution
In Tahrir Square: 18 Days of Egypt's Unfinished Revolution
China's Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province
Alive Day Memories: Home from Iraq
Wartorn: 1861-2010
Baghdad ER
Lock-Up: The Prisoners of Rikers Island
Life of Crime 2
Movie credits · 41
Armed Only with a Camera: The Life and Death of Brent Renaud
Life of Crime: 1984-2020
Finding the Way Home
All For One: Media Enabled Musketeers
Cuba and the Cameraman
Rock and a Hard Place
Banking on Bitcoin
Mariela Castro's March: Cuba's LGBT Revolution
The Latin Explosion: A New America
Redemption
In Tahrir Square: 18 Days of Egypt's Unfinished Revolution
Wartorn: 1861-2010
No Contract, No Cookies: The Stella D'Oro Strike
China's Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province
Dirty Driving: Thundercars Of Indiana
A Woman Among Boys
Access Denied?: The Fight for Corporate Accountability
Section 60: Arlington National Cemetery
Alive Day Memories: Home from Iraq
Latin Kings: A Street Gang Story
Addiction
Baghdad ER
The Last Cowboy
Bridge to Baghdad
Bridge to Baghdad II
Afghanistan: From Ground Zero to Ground Zero
Papa
Life of Crime 2
A Cinderella Season: The Lady Vols Fight Back
High on Crack Street: Lost Lives in Lowell
Lock-Up: The Prisoners of Rikers Island
One Year in a Life of Crime
The Story of Junkie Junior
The Philippines: Life, Death and Revolution
Hard Metal Disease
Third Avenue: Only the Strong Survive
Healthcare: Your Money or Your Life
Vietnam: Picking up the Pieces
Chinatown: Immigrants in America
Cuba: The People
TV credits · 1
Movie & TV metadata from TMDB. This product uses the TMDB API but is not endorsed or certified by TMDB.