Jon Alpert
Known for Directing · 8 credits
- Born
- 1948-01-01 (age 78)
- Place of birth
- 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 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
Open Space
1983
Cuba and the Cameraman
2017
as Self
Armed Only with a Camera: The Life and Death of Brent Renaud
2025
as Self
High on Crack Street: Lost Lives in Lowell
1995
as Narrator (voice)
One Year in a Life of Crime
1989
as Self
Chinatown: Immigrants in America
1976
as Narrator
TV Shows (1)
Movies (7)
Cuba and the Cameraman
2017
as Self
Armed Only with a Camera: The Life and Death of Brent Renaud
2025
as Self
High on Crack Street: Lost Lives in Lowell
1995
as Narrator (voice)
One Year in a Life of Crime
1989
as Self
Chinatown: Immigrants in America
1976
as Narrator
All For One: Media Enabled Musketeers
2018
Cuba: The People
1974
as Narrator
About Jon Alpert
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… With 8 credits spanning from 1974 to 2025, Jon Alpert has appeared in 7 films and 1 TV show.
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Most Popular Jon Alpert Movies
- Cuba and the Cameraman (2017) — as Self
- Armed Only with a Camera: The Life and Death of Brent Renaud (2025) — as Self
- High on Crack Street: Lost Lives in Lowell (1995) — as Narrator (voice)
- One Year in a Life of Crime (1989) — as Self
- Chinatown: Immigrants in America (1976) — as Narrator
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