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Jon Alpert
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.…
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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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2021
Life of Crime: 1984-2020
Movie Director
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2019
Finding the Way Home
Movie Director
- 2018
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2017
Cuba and the Cameraman
Movie Self
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2017
Rock and a Hard Place
Movie Director
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2016
Banking on Bitcoin
Movie Executive Producer
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2016
Mariela Castro's March: Cuba's LGBT Revolution
Movie Director
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2015
The Latin Explosion: A New America
Movie Director
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2013
Redemption
Movie Director
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2012
In Tahrir Square: 18 Days of Egypt's Unfinished Revolution
Movie Director
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2010
Wartorn: 1861-2010
Movie Director
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2010
No Contract, No Cookies: The Stella D'Oro Strike
Movie Director
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2009
China's Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province
Movie Director
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2008
Dirty Driving: Thundercars Of Indiana
Movie Director
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2008
A Woman Among Boys
Movie Director
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2008
Access Denied?: The Fight for Corporate Accountability
Movie Director
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2008
Section 60: Arlington National Cemetery
Movie Director
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2007
Alive Day Memories: Home from Iraq
Movie Director
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2007
Latin Kings: A Street Gang Story
Movie Director
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2007
Addiction
Movie Director
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2006
Baghdad ER
Movie Producer
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2005
The Last Cowboy
Movie Director
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2003
Bridge to Baghdad II
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2003
Bridge to Baghdad
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2002
Afghanistan: From Ground Zero to Ground Zero
Movie Director
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2002
Papa
Movie Director
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1998
Life of Crime 2
Movie Cinematography
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1998
A Cinderella Season: The Lady Vols Fight Back
Movie Director
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1995
High on Crack Street: Lost Lives in Lowell
Movie Narrator (voice)
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1994
Lock-Up: The Prisoners of Rikers Island
Movie Director
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1989
One Year in a Life of Crime
Movie Self
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1987
The Story of Junkie Junior
Movie Director
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1986
The Philippines: Life, Death and Revolution
Movie Director
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1984
Hard Metal Disease
Movie Director
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1983
Open Space
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1980
Third Avenue: Only the Strong Survive
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1978
Healthcare: Your Money or Your Life
Movie Producer
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1978
Vietnam: Picking up the Pieces
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1976
Chinatown: Immigrants in America
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