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Jon Alpert
Producer, Director, Writer, Editor, Actor, Additional CreditsBorn January 1, 1948 (78 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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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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Known For
Jon Alpert Filmography
| 2025 | Armed Only with a Camera: The Life and Death of Brent Renaud · as Executive Producer |
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| 2016 | Banking on Bitcoin · as Executive Producer |
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| 2010 | El espiritu de la salsa · as Executive Producer |
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| 2007 | Little Rock Central: 50 Years Later · as Executive Producer |
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| 2005 | Off To War - From Rural Arkansas To Iraq (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2005 | Dope Sick Love · as Executive Producer |
| 2002 | Wide Angle (TV Series) |
| 1999 | Independent Lens (TV Series) |
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| 1989 | |
| 1983 | America Undercover (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 1980 |
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| 2017 | Cuba and the Cameraman · as Self |
| 2013 | James Gandolfini: Tribute to a Friend · as Self |
| 2013 | The Oscars · as Self - Nominee |
| 2006 | Doc Talk (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2004 | Tavis Smiley (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2001 | Democracy Now! (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1994 | Lock-Up: The Prisoners of Rikers Island · as Self - Interviewer And Cameraman |
| 1989 | One Year in a Life of Crime · as Self |
| 1983 | America Undercover (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1982 | Late Night With David Letterman (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1980 | The David Letterman Show (TV Series) · as Self |
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| 2002 | Wide Angle (TV Series) |
| 1999 | Independent Lens (TV Series) |
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| 1989 | |
| 1983 | America Undercover (TV Series) |
| 1980 |
| 2017 | Cuba and the Cameraman · as Screenplay |
| 2002 | Wide Angle (TV Series) |
| 1995 |
| 1995 | High on Crack Street: Lost Lives in Lowell · as Narrator (voice) |