Jon Alpert
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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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jon Alpert, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Cuba and the Cameraman (2017)
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Rock and a Hard Place (2017)
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Life of Crime: 1984-2020 (2021)
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The Latin Explosion: A New America (2015)
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Redemption (2013)
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Life of Crime 2 (1998)
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Baghdad ER (2006)
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One Year in a Life of Crime (1989)
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Wartorn: 1861-2010 (2010)
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Third Avenue: Only the Strong Survive (1980)
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Finding the Way Home (2019)
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China's Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province (2009)
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In Tahrir Square: 18 Days of Egypt's Unfinished Revolution (2012)
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Lock-Up: The Prisoners of Rikers Island (1994)
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High on Crack Street: Lost Lives in Lowell (1995)
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Section 60: Arlington National Cemetery (2008)
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The Story of Junkie Junior (1987)
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Access Denied?: The Fight for Corporate Accountability (2008)
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Alive Day Memories: Home from Iraq (2007)
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Addiction (2007)
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A Woman Among Boys (2008)
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Chinatown: Immigrants in America (1976)
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Papa (2002)
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Hard Metal Disease (1984)
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Mariela Castro's March: Cuba's LGBT Revolution (2016)
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Cuba: The People (1974)
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No Contract, No Cookies: The Stella D'Oro Strike (2010)
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Dirty Driving: Thundercars Of Indiana (2008)
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The Philippines: Life, Death and Revolution (1986)
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Afghanistan: From Ground Zero to Ground Zero (2002)
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Latin Kings: A Street Gang Story (2007)
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Bridge to Baghdad II (2003)
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The Last Cowboy (2005)
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All For One: Media Enabled Musketeers (2018)
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A Cinderella Season: The Lady Vols Fight Back (1998)
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Bridge to Baghdad (2003)
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The Raging Rabbi (—)
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Vietnam: Picking up the Pieces (1978)
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