Jon Alpert
Directing
Born: 1948-01-01 · 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
🎬 Movies (30)
Armed Only with a Camera: The Life and Death of Brent Renaud
2025
Self
Life of Crime: 1984-2020
2021
Director
Finding the Way Home
2019
Director
All For One: Media Enabled Musketeers
2018
Director
Cuba and the Cameraman
2017
Director
Rock and a Hard Place
2017
Director
Mariela Castro's March: Cuba's LGBT Revolution
2016
Director
Banking on Bitcoin
2016
Executive Producer
The Latin Explosion: A New America
2015
Director
Redemption
2013
Director
In Tahrir Square: 18 Days of Egypt's Unfinished Revolution
2012
Director
Wartorn: 1861-2010
2010
Director
No Contract, No Cookies: The Stella D'Oro Strike
2010
Director
China's Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province
2009
Director
Section 60: Arlington National Cemetery
2008
Director
Dirty Driving: Thundercars Of Indiana
2008
Director
A Woman Among Boys
2008
Director
Access Denied?: The Fight for Corporate Accountability
2008
Director
Alive Day Memories: Home from Iraq
2007
Director
Addiction
2007
Director
Latin Kings: A Street Gang Story
2007
Director
Baghdad ER
2006
Director
The Last Cowboy
2005
Director
Bridge to Baghdad
2003
Director
Bridge to Baghdad II
2003
Director
Papa
2002
Director
Afghanistan: From Ground Zero to Ground Zero
2002
Director
Life of Crime 2
1998
Director
A Cinderella Season: The Lady Vols Fight Back
1998
Director
High on Crack Street: Lost Lives in Lowell
1995
Director