Highest rated movie: Life of Crime: 1984-2020 (2021)
Lowest rated movie: In Tahrir Square: 18 Days of Egypt's Unfinished Revolution (2012)
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Movies from this director have generally received positive reviews and hold an average rating of 71%.
Life of Crime: 1984-2020 is Jon Alpert's highest rated movie, with a score of 84% based on 1 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Jon Alpert is In Tahrir Square: 18 Days of Egypt's Unfinished Revolution, with a score of 53% based on 1 reviews.
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.
Jon Alpert has directed films starring James Gandolfini, Dwayne Johnson, Fidel Castro and Mickey O'Keefe.
Jon Alpert has collaborated with these film directors: Matthew O'Neill, Ellen Goosenberg Kent, Maryann DeLeo and Richard Farrell.
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