Jon Alpert (born c. December 13, 1948) is an American journalist and documentary filmmaker, known for his use of a cinéma vérité approach in his films.
Filmography (40 movies)
10.0
10.0
Third Avenue: Only the Strong Survive
1980
Director
9.0
9.0
Armed Only with a Camera: The Life and Death of Brent Renaud
2025
Executive Producer
8.1
8.1
Life of Crime: 1984-2020
2021
Director
7.9
7.9
The Latin Explosion: A New America
2015
Director
7.5
7.5
Cuba and the Cameraman
2017
Screenplay
7.3
7.3
Baghdad ER
2006
Producer
7.0
7.0
The Story of Junkie Junior
1987
Director
7.0
7.0
Life of Crime 2
1998
Director
7.0
7.0
Latin Kings: A Street Gang Story
2007
Director
6.8
6.8
One Year in a Life of Crime
1989
Producer
6.7
6.7
High on Crack Street: Lost Lives in Lowell
1995
Writer
6.4
6.4
China's Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province
2009
Director
6.3
6.3
Alive Day Memories: Home from Iraq
2007
Director
6.3
6.3
Redemption
2013
Director
6.3
6.3
Banking on Bitcoin
2016
Executive Producer
6.2
6.2
Rock and a Hard Place
2017
Director
6.0
6.0
Papa
2002
Director
5.9
5.9
In Tahrir Square: 18 Days of Egypt's Unfinished Revolution
2012
Director
5.9
5.9
Wartorn: 1861-2010
2010
Director
5.7
5.7
No Contract, No Cookies: The Stella D'Oro Strike
2010
Producer
5.5
5.5
Section 60: Arlington National Cemetery
2008
Director
5.3
5.3
Addiction
2007
Director
5.0
5.0
Finding the Way Home
2019
Director
5.0
5.0
All For One: Media Enabled Musketeers
2018
Director
4.8
4.8
Dirty Driving: Thundercars Of Indiana
2008
Director
4.6
4.6
Lock-Up: The Prisoners of Rikers Island
1994
Producer
4.3
4.3
Mariela Castro's March: Cuba's LGBT Revolution
2016
Director
Cuba: The People, Part I
1974
Director
Bridge to Baghdad II
2003
Director
The Philippines: Life, Death and Revolution
1986
Director
Bridge to Baghdad
2003
Director
Healthcare: Your Money or Your Life
1978
Producer
A Cinderella Season: The Lady Vols Fight Back
1998
Director
The Last Cowboy
2005
Director
The Raging Rabbi
TBA
Director
A Woman Among Boys
2008
Director
Hard Metal Disease
1984
Director
Chinatown: Immigrants in America
1976
Director
Access Denied?: The Fight for Corporate Accountability