Jon Alpert

Known for: Directing
Born: January 1, 1948, Port Chester, New York, USA
Movies: 45

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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.

Best-Known Movies

7.5

Cuba and the Cameraman

2017

8.0

Life of Crime: 1984-2020

2021

7.2

Armed Only with a Camera: The Life and Death of Brent Renaud

2025

6.2

Rock and a Hard Place

2017

6.7

High on Crack Street: Lost Lives in Lowell

1995

6.4

Redemption

2013

8.0

The Latin Explosion: A New America

2015

6.0

Alive Day Memories: Home from Iraq

2007

5.7

In Tahrir Square: 18 Days of Egypt's Unfinished Revolution

2012

6.6

China's Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province

2009

Filmography

2025	Armed Only with a Camera: The Life and Death of Brent Renaud	Self
2018	All For One: Media Enabled Musketeers
2017	Cuba and the Cameraman	Self
1995	High on Crack Street: Lost Lives in Lowell	Narrator (voice)
1989	One Year in a Life of Crime	Self
1976	Chinatown: Immigrants in America	Narrator
1974	Cuba: The People	Narrator

Directing, Writing & Producing

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

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