Jon Alpert
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- January 1, 1948
- Birthplace
- 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.
Filmography
- The Raging Rabbi
The Raging Rabbi TBA
Director
Armed Only with a Camera: The Life and Death of Brent Renaud 2025
as Self, Executive Producer, Director of Photography, Editor
Life of Crime: 1984-2020 2021
Director, Director of Photography
Finding the Way Home 2019
Director, Producer, Director of Photography
All For One: Media Enabled Musketeers 2018
Actor, Director, Producer
Cuba and the Cameraman 2017
as Self, Director, Screenplay, Director of Photography
Rock and a Hard Place 2017
Director
Banking on Bitcoin 2016
Executive Producer
Mariela Castro's March: Cuba's LGBT Revolution 2016
Director
The Latin Explosion: A New America 2015
Director
Redemption 2013
Director
In Tahrir Square: 18 Days of Egypt's Unfinished Revolution 2012
Director
Wartorn: 1861-2010 2010
Director
No Contract, No Cookies: The Stella D'Oro Strike 2010
Director, Producer, Director of Photography
China's Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province 2009
Director
Dirty Driving: Thundercars Of Indiana 2008
Director, Director of Photography, Producer
- Access Denied?: The Fight for Corporate Accountability
Access Denied?: The Fight for Corporate Accountability 2008
Director
A Woman Among Boys 2008
Director
Section 60: Arlington National Cemetery 2008
Director, Director of Photography, Producer
Alive Day Memories: Home from Iraq 2007
Director, Director of Photography, Producer
Latin Kings: A Street Gang Story 2007
Director
Addiction 2007
Director
Baghdad ER 2006
Producer, Director
The Last Cowboy 2005
Director
- Bridge to Baghdad II
Bridge to Baghdad II 2003
Director
- Bridge to Baghdad
Bridge to Baghdad 2003
Director
- Afghanistan: From Ground Zero to Ground Zero
Afghanistan: From Ground Zero to Ground Zero 2002
Director
Papa 2002
Director, Director of Photography
Life of Crime 2 1998
Editor, Cinematography, Producer, Director
A Cinderella Season: The Lady Vols Fight Back 1998
Director
High on Crack Street: Lost Lives in Lowell 1995
as Narrator (voice), Writer, Director, Editor
Lock-Up: The Prisoners of Rikers Island 1994
Producer, Director
One Year in a Life of Crime 1989
as Self, Director, Producer
The Story of Junkie Junior 1987
Director, Writer, Cinematography
The Philippines: Life, Death and Revolution 1986
Director
- Hard Metal Disease
Hard Metal Disease 1984
Director
Third Avenue: Only the Strong Survive 1980
Director
Vietnam: Picking up the Pieces 1978
Director, Producer
Healthcare: Your Money or Your Life 1978
Producer
Chinatown: Immigrants in America 1976
as Narrator, Director, Writer, Co-Producer, Cinematography
Cuba: The People 1974
as Narrator, Director, Producer, Writer
Credits from TMDB.