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