Directing
Jon Alpert
- Titles
- 41movies1TV show
- Career
Active from 1974 to 2025, busiest in 2008 with 4 main titles.
- Directed
- 38titles as director
- Average score
72/100
- Highest rated
Cuba and the Cameraman87/100
What stands out
Compared with the average well-known movie, over 10 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.
- Social Commentary8.6average 4.9
- Contemporary Realism8.8average 5.2
- Politics5.8average 2.6
- Warfare4.1average 1.2
- Pathos7.7average 5.2
- Class & Capitalism5.3average 3.3
- Melancholy6.7average 4.7
- Psychological6.6average 5.6
Rarely in their work
- Romance1.4, average 3.8
- Situational Comedy0.6, average 2.7
- Physical Comedy0.5, average 2.5
- Wit & Wordplay1.8, average 3.7
Main genres
Select a genre to see those titles.
Recurring tags
- Documentary 7
- Social Commentary 4
- Social Impact 3
- Emotional Impact 3
- War Documentary 2
- Educational 2
Works often with
People in at least two of their main titles.
Matthew O'NeillDirectorThe Latin Explosion: A New America, Redemption, Rock and a Hard Place, Alive Day Memories: Home from Iraq, China's Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province, +8 more- JJohn CustodioEditorPapa, Section 60: Arlington National Cemetery, No Contract, No Cookies: The Stella D'Oro Strike, One Year in a Life of Crime, All For One: Media Enabled Musketeers
Keiko TsunoDirectorCuba: The People, Chinatown: Immigrants in America, Vietnam: Picking up the Pieces, Third Avenue: Only the Strong Survive- DDavid MenesesEditorRock and a Hard Place, Cuba and the Cameraman, Dirty Driving: Thundercars Of Indiana, Section 60: Arlington National Cemetery
- RRobert SteffeyActorLife of Crime: 1984-2020, Life of Crime 2, One Year in a Life of Crime
- FFreddie RodriguezActorLife of Crime: 1984-2020, Life of Crime 2, One Year in a Life of Crime
Brent RenaudActorArmed Only with a Camera: The Life and Death of Brent Renaud, Dirty Driving: Thundercars Of Indiana, Section 60: Arlington National Cemetery
James GandolfiniActorAlive Day Memories: Home from Iraq, Wartorn: 1861-2010- CCraig RenaudActorArmed Only with a Camera: The Life and Death of Brent Renaud, Section 60: Arlington National Cemetery
- DDeliris VasquezActorLife of Crime: 1984-2020, Life of Crime 2
- EEllen Goosenberg KentDirectorAlive Day Memories: Home from Iraq, Wartorn: 1861-2010
Paula HerediaEditorAlive Day Memories: Home from Iraq, Addiction
Movies and TV shows
162020s
1 title · average score 71
71
Armed Only with a Camera: The Life and Death of Brent Renaud (2025)
Executive Producer, Director of Photography
2010s
4 titles · average score 71
Finding the Way Home (2019)
Director, Director of Photography
All For One: Media Enabled Musketeers (2018)
Director, Producer
71
Banking on Bitcoin (2016)
Executive Producer
No Contract, No Cookies: The Stella D'Oro Strike (2010)
Director of Photography, Director
2000s
4 titles · average score 76
Dirty Driving: Thundercars Of Indiana (2008)
Director of Photography, Director
Section 60: Arlington National Cemetery (2008)
Director, Producer
75
Alive Day Memories: Home from Iraq (2007)
Director, Director of Photography
78
Baghdad ER (2006)
Producer, Director
1990s
2 titles · average score 71
77
Life of Crime 2 (1998)
Editor, Cinematography
65
Lock-Up: The Prisoners of Rikers Island (1994)
Producer, Director
1980s
1 title · average score 72
72
One Year in a Life of Crime (1989)
Director, Producer
1970s
4 titles
Vietnam: Picking up the Pieces (1978)
Producer, Director
Chinatown: Immigrants in America (1976)
as Narrator
Cuba: The People (1974)
as Narrator