Jon Alpert

ActorCinematographerEditorProducerDirector Jan 1 (age 78) Port Chester, New York, USA 1974–2025 (51 year career)

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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…

Known For

Film

Cuba and the Cameraman

Self

Film

Banking on Bitcoin

Executive Producer

Film

Life of Crime: 1984-2020

Director

Film

Armed Only with a Camera: The Life and Death of Brent Renaud

Self

Film

The Latin Explosion: A New America

Director

Film

High on Crack Street: Lost Lives in Lowell

Narrator (voice)

Film

Rock and a Hard Place

Director

Film

Redemption

Director

Filmography

Acting (8)

Movies (7)

Armed Only with a Camera: The Life and Death of Brent Renaud

2025

as Self

7.2

All For One: Media Enabled Musketeers

2018

5.0

Cuba and the Cameraman

2017

as Self

7.5

High on Crack Street: Lost Lives in Lowell

1995

as Narrator (voice)

6.7

One Year in a Life of Crime

1989

as Self

6.8

Chinatown: Immigrants in America

1976

as Narrator

Cuba: The People

1974

as Narator

Television (1)

Open Space

1983

Crew (74)

Movies (74)

Armed Only with a Camera: The Life and Death of Brent Renaud

2025

Director of Photography

7.2

Armed Only with a Camera: The Life and Death of Brent Renaud

2025

Editor

7.2

Armed Only with a Camera: The Life and Death of Brent Renaud

2025

Executive Producer

7.2

Life of Crime: 1984-2020

2021

Director

8.2

Life of Crime: 1984-2020

2021

Director of Photography

Finding the Way Home

Director

Finding the Way Home

Director of Photography

5.0

Finding the Way Home

2019

Producer

5.0

All For One: Media Enabled Musketeers

2018

Director

5.0

All For One: Media Enabled Musketeers

2018

Producer

5.0

Rock and a Hard Place

2017

Director

6.2

Cuba and the Cameraman

2017

Director

7.5

Cuba and the Cameraman

2017

Director of Photography

7.5

Cuba and the Cameraman

2017

Screenplay

7.5

Mariela Castro's March: Cuba's LGBT Revolution

Director

Banking on Bitcoin

Executive Producer

The Latin Explosion: A New America

Director

Redemption

Director

In Tahrir Square: 18 Days of Egypt's Unfinished Revolution

2012

Director

5.9

No Contract, No Cookies: The Stella D'Oro Strike

2010

Director

5.7

No Contract, No Cookies: The Stella D'Oro Strike

2010

Director of Photography

5.7

No Contract, No Cookies: The Stella D'Oro Strike

Producer

Wartorn: 1861-2010

Director

China's Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province

2009

Director

6.4

Dirty Driving: Thundercars Of Indiana

2008

Director

4.8

Dirty Driving: Thundercars Of Indiana

2008

Director of Photography

4.8

Dirty Driving: Thundercars Of Indiana

2008

Producer

4.8

Section 60: Arlington National Cemetery

2008

Director

6.0

Section 60: Arlington National Cemetery

2008

Director of Photography

6.0

Section 60: Arlington National Cemetery

2008

Producer

6.0

Access Denied?: The Fight for Corporate Accountability

2008

Director

A Woman Among Boys

2008

Director

Addiction

2007

Director

5.3

Latin Kings: A Street Gang Story

2007

Director

7.0

Alive Day Memories: Home from Iraq

2007

Director

6.3

Alive Day Memories: Home from Iraq

2007

Director of Photography

6.3

Alive Day Memories: Home from Iraq

Producer

Baghdad ER

Director

Baghdad ER

Producer

The Last Cowboy

Director

Bridge to Baghdad II

2003

Director

Bridge to Baghdad

2003

Director

Papa

2002

Director

6.0

Papa

2002

Director of Photography

6.0

Afghanistan: From Ground Zero to Ground Zero

2002

Director

A Cinderella Season: The Lady Vols Fight Back

1998

Director

Life of Crime 2

Cinematography

Life of Crime 2

Director

Life of Crime 2

Editor

Life of Crime 2

Producer

High on Crack Street: Lost Lives in Lowell

1995

Director

6.7

High on Crack Street: Lost Lives in Lowell

1995

Editor

6.7

High on Crack Street: Lost Lives in Lowell

1995

Writer

6.7

Lock-Up: The Prisoners of Rikers Island

1994

Director

4.6

Lock-Up: The Prisoners of Rikers Island

1994

Producer

4.6

One Year in a Life of Crime

1989

Director

6.8

One Year in a Life of Crime

1989

Producer

6.8

The Story of Junkie Junior

1987

Cinematography

7.0

The Story of Junkie Junior

1987

Director

7.0

The Story of Junkie Junior

1987

Writer

7.0

The Philippines: Life, Death and Revolution

1986

Director

Hard Metal Disease

1984

Director

Third Avenue: Only the Strong Survive

1980

Director

10.0

Healthcare: Your Money or Your Life

1978

Producer

Vietnam: Picking up the Pieces

1978

Director

Vietnam: Picking up the Pieces

1978

Producer

Chinatown: Immigrants in America

1976

Cinematography

Chinatown: Immigrants in America

1976

Co-Producer

Chinatown: Immigrants in America

1976

Director

Chinatown: Immigrants in America

1976

Writer

Cuba: The People

1974

Director

Cuba: The People

1974

Producer

Cuba: The People

1974

Writer

The Raging Rabbi

Director