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Jon Alpert

Producer, Director, Writer, Editor, Actor, Additional CreditsBorn January 1, 1948 (77 years)
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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.

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Movies & Shows on Plex

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Known For

  • Cuba and the Cameraman
  • Banking on Bitcoin
  • Life of Crime 1984-2020
  • Baghdad ER
  • Dope Sick Love
  • Rock and a Hard Place
  • High on Crack Street: Lost Lives in Lowell
  • Wartorn: 1861-2010
  • Alive Day Memories: Home from Iraq
  • China's Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province
  • One Year in a Life of Crime
  • Lock-Up: The Prisoners of Rikers Island
  • Covid Diaries NYC
  • Dirty Driving: Thundercars of Indiana
  • In Tahrir Square: 18 Days of Egypt's Unfinished Revolution
  • Section 60: Arlington National Cemetery
  • The Latin Explosion: A New America
  • Life of Crime 2
  • Finding the Way Home
  • Little Rock Central: 50 Years Later
  • No Contract, No Cookies: The Stella D'Oro Strike
  • Latin Kings: A Street Gang Story
  • El espiritu de la salsa
  • The Other Man: F.W. de Klerk and the End of Apartheid

Filmography

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