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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.

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