Jon Alpert
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- January 1, 1948 (age 78)
- Birthplace
- Port Chester, New York, USA
Biography
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
Alive Day Memories: Home from Iraq
In Tahrir Square: 18 Days of Egypt's Unfinished Revolution
China's Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province
Mariela Castro's March: Cuba's LGBT Revolution
Filmography
The Raging Rabbi
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Life of Crime: 1984-2020
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Finding the Way Home
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All For One: Media Enabled Musketeers
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Rock and a Hard Place
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Cuba and the Cameraman
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Mariela Castro's March: Cuba's LGBT Revolution
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The Latin Explosion: A New America
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Redemption
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In Tahrir Square: 18 Days of Egypt's Unfinished Revolution
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Wartorn: 1861-2010
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No Contract, No Cookies: The Stella D'Oro Strike
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China's Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province
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Section 60: Arlington National Cemetery
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Dirty Driving: Thundercars Of Indiana
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A Woman Among Boys
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Access Denied?: The Fight for Corporate Accountability
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Alive Day Memories: Home from Iraq
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Addiction
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Latin Kings: A Street Gang Story
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Baghdad ER
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The Last Cowboy
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Bridge to Baghdad
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Bridge to Baghdad II
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Papa
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Afghanistan: From Ground Zero to Ground Zero
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A Cinderella Season: The Lady Vols Fight Back
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Life of Crime 2
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High on Crack Street: Lost Lives in Lowell
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Lock-Up: The Prisoners of Rikers Island
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One Year in a Life of Crime
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The Story of Junkie Junior
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The Philippines: Life, Death and Revolution
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Hard Metal Disease
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Third Avenue: Only the Strong Survive
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Vietnam: Picking up the Pieces
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Chinatown: Immigrants in America
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Cuba: The People
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