Jon Alpert
Directing
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
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movieFinding the Way Home
2019
Director
movieCuba and the Cameraman
2017
Director
movieRock and a Hard Place
2017
Director
movieRedemption
2013
Director
movieWartorn: 1861-2010
2010
Director
movieA Woman Among Boys
2008
Director
movieAddiction
2007
Director
movieBaghdad ER
2006
Director
movieThe Last Cowboy
2005
Director
Afghanistan: From Ground Zero to Ground Zero
2002
Director
moviePapa
2002
Director
movieLife of Crime 2
1998
Director
movieCuba: The People
1974
Director
Production16
movieArmed Only with a Camera: The Life and Death of Brent Renaud
2025
Executive Producer
movieFinding the Way Home
2019
Producer
movieBanking on Bitcoin
2016
Executive Producer
movieBaghdad ER
2006
Producer
movieLife of Crime 2
1998
Producer
movieChinatown: Immigrants in America
1976
Co-Producer
movieCuba: The People
1974
Producer
Camera9
movieArmed Only with a Camera: The Life and Death of Brent Renaud
2025
Director of Photography
movieLife of Crime: 1984-2020
2021
Director of Photography
movieFinding the Way Home
2019
Director of Photography
movieCuba and the Cameraman
2017
Director of Photography
movieNo Contract, No Cookies: The Stella D'Oro Strike
2010
Director of Photography
movieDirty Driving: Thundercars Of Indiana
2008
Director of Photography
movieSection 60: Arlington National Cemetery
2008
Director of Photography
movieAlive Day Memories: Home from Iraq
2007
Director of Photography
moviePapa
2002
Director of Photography
Acting8
movieHigh on Crack Street: Lost Lives in Lowell
1995
Narrator (voice)
movieCuba: The People
1974
Narrator
Writing5
Crew3
movieLife of Crime 2
1998
Cinematography
movieThe Story of Junkie Junior
1987
Cinematography
movieChinatown: Immigrants in America
1976
Cinematography