Jon Alpert
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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 nominated for a 2010 Academy Award in the category of Best Documentary, Short Subject for China's U…
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Open Space
1983 · TV
Cuba and the Cameraman
2017 · Movie
Rock and a Hard Place
2017 · Movie
Life of Crime: 1984-2020
2021 · Movie
Armed Only with a Camera: The Life and Death of Brent Renaud
2025 · Movie
The Latin Explosion: A New America
2015 · Movie
Redemption
2013 · Movie
Life of Crime 2
1998 · Movie
Finding the Way Home
2019 · Movie
China's Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province
2009 · Movie
Alive Day Memories: Home from Iraq
2007 · Movie
One Year in a Life of Crime
1989 · Movie