Movies: Jon Alpert

  • 2017
    Cuba and the Cameraman

    Cuba and the Cameraman (2017)

    Cuba and the Cameraman

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    This revealing portrait of Cuba follows the lives of Fidel Castro and three Cuban families affected by his policies over the last four decades....

    Cuba and the Cameraman
  • 2015
    The Latin Explosion: A New America

    The Latin Explosion: A New America (2015)

    The Latin Explosion: A New America

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    With more than 50 million Latinos now living in the United States, Latinos are taking their seat at the table as the new American power brokers in the world of entertainment, business, politics and the arts. As Latinos’ influence in American society ...

    The Latin Explosion: A New America
  • 2016
    Banking on Bitcoin

    Banking on Bitcoin (2016)

    Banking on Bitcoin

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    Not since the invention of the Internet has there been such a disruptive technology as Bitcoin. Bitcoin's early pioneers sought to blur the lines of sovereignty and the financial status quo. After years of underground development Bitcoin grabbed the ...

    Banking on Bitcoin
  • 2017
    Rock and a Hard Place

    Rock and a Hard Place (2017)

    Rock and a Hard Place

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    A look at the Miami-Dade County Corrections and Rehabilitation Boot Camp Program, which allows young inmates undergo a strict six-week course in order to learn from their past mistakes and make a better future for themselves....

    Rock and a Hard Place
  • 2013
    Redemption

    Redemption (2013)

    Redemption

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    Redemption is a documentary about New York City's canners - the men and women who survive by redeeming bottles and cans they collect from curbs, garbage cans and apartment complexes. You've seen them combing through the trash, but never got to meet t...

    Redemption
  • 1998
    Life of Crime 2

    Life of Crime 2 (1998)

    Life of Crime 2

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    This follow-up to the 1989 documentary ONE YEAR IN A LIFE OF CRIME revisits three of the original subjects in New Jersey during a five-year period in the 1990s. We share in their triumphs and setbacks as they navigate lives of poverty, drug abuse, AI...

    Life of Crime 2
  • 2007
    Alive Day Memories: Home from Iraq

    Alive Day Memories: Home from Iraq (2007)

    Alive Day Memories: Home from Iraq

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    In a war that has left more than 25,000 wounded, ALIVE DAY MEMORIES: HOME FROM IRAQ looks at a new generation of veterans. Executive Producer James Gandolfini interviews ten Soldiers and Marines who reveal their feelings on their future, their severe...

    Alive Day Memories: Home from Iraq
  • 1995
    High on Crack Street: Lost Lives in Lowell

    High on Crack Street: Lost Lives in Lowell (1995)

    High on Crack Street: Lost Lives in Lowell

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    Documents 18 months in the lives of three crack addicts in Lowell, Massachusetts....

    High on Crack Street: Lost Lives in Lowell
  • 1994
    Lock-Up: The Prisoners of Rikers Island

    Lock-Up: The Prisoners of Rikers Island (1994)

    Lock-Up: The Prisoners of Rikers Island

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    If you're arrested in New York City and can't make bail, you'll be sent to Rikers Island -- a mammoth holding facility for 17,000 men and women awaiting trial. TV journalist Jon Alpert spent ten months filming there, coming away with a graphic and un...

    Lock-Up: The Prisoners of Rikers Island
  • 2019
    Finding the Way Home

    Finding the Way Home (2019)

    Finding the Way Home

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    A look at the distressing circumstances for millions of children living in orphanages and other institutions around the world as J.K. Rowling's LUMOS foundation works to reunite them with family members or place them in foster homes....

    Finding the Way Home
  • 2010
    Wartorn: 1861-2010

    Wartorn: 1861-2010 (2010)

    Wartorn: 1861-2010

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    With suicide rates among active military servicemen and veterans currently on the rise, this documentary brings urgent attention to the invisible wounds of war. Drawing on personal stories of American soldiers whose lives and psyches were torn asunde...

    Wartorn: 1861-2010
  • 2021
    Life of Crime: 1984-2020

    Life of Crime: 1984-2020 (2021)

    Life of Crime: 1984-2020

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    An intimate documentary that looks at the vicious cycles of drug addiction and street crime in one of the roughest parts of New Jersey....

    Life of Crime: 1984-2020
  • 2009
    China's Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province

    China's Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province (2009)

    China's Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province

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    On May 12, 2008, a catastrophic earthquake hit Sichuan Province in rural China, killing nearly 70,000 people, including 10,000 children. In town after town, poorly constructed school buildings crumbled, wiping out classrooms filled with students, mos...

    China's Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province
  • 2010
    No Contract, No Cookies: The Stella D'Oro Strike

    No Contract, No Cookies: The Stella D'Oro Strike (2010)

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

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    Follows the struggle of 138 mostly immigrant workers who strike to save their jobs at a famous bakery in the Bronx when a private equity firm buys the bakery and demands wage cuts of up to 30%....

    No Contract, No Cookies: The Stella D'Oro Strike
  • 2006
    Baghdad ER

    Baghdad ER (2006)

    Baghdad ER

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    Produced and directed by 11-time Emmy Award-winner Jon Alpert, this 64-minute verite documentary takes an unforgettable look inside the 86th Combat Support Hospital (CSH), the U.S. Army's premier medical facility in Iraq and former site of one of Sad...

    Baghdad ER
  • 2008
    Dirty Driving: Thundercars Of Indiana

    Dirty Driving: Thundercars Of Indiana (2008)

    Dirty Driving: Thundercars Of Indiana

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    Auto racing is an obsession in Anderson, Indiana. Even with local auto factories closing down and jobs being lost, the town's residents continue to flock to the local speedway every Friday night--and its drivers continue to pour their dwindling resou...

    Dirty Driving: Thundercars Of Indiana
  • 2007
    Latin Kings: A Street Gang Story

    Latin Kings: A Street Gang Story (2007)

    Latin Kings: A Street Gang Story

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    Documentary on Antonio "King Tone" Fernandez and his gang, the Latin Kings, whose main target was to protect Latin people....

    Latin Kings: A Street Gang Story
  • 1987
    The Story of Junkie Junior

    The Story of Junkie Junior (1987)

    The Story of Junkie Junior

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    Junior Rios started using heroin when he was 15. At age 29, Junior is a father of three. To support his $200-a-day heroin habit, he scours the rooftops of the South Bronx for materials he can sell. When he's finally caught, he enters an aggressive re...

    The Story of Junkie Junior
  • 2007
    Addiction

    Addiction (2007)

    Addiction

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    Assembled by some of the nation's top documentary filmmakers, this centerpiece film in HBO's 'Addiction' campaign features insights from experts on trends and treatments in the ongoing battle against drug and alcohol abuse. This documentary consists ...

    Addiction
  • 2012
    In Tahrir Square: 18 Days of Egypt's Unfinished Revolution

    In Tahrir Square: 18 Days of Egypt's Unfinished Revolution (2012)

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

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    With footage shot in the center of Egypt's Tahrir Square from the beginning of the battles to the climax of the celebration, audiences experience first-hand the people-powered revolt that brought down a dictator and changed Egypt forever....

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