Movies: Jon Alpert
- 2007
Latin Kings: A Street Gang Story (2007)
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Documentary on Antonio "King Tone" Fernandez and his gang, the Latin Kings, whose main target was to protect Latin people....
- 2002
Papa (2002)
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This is Jon Alpert's portrait of his father's struggles with growing old and nearing the end of life....
- 2008
Section 60: Arlington National Cemetery (2008)
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It has been called "the saddest acre in America." It is also one of the most sacred. Section 60 in Arlington National Cemetery is the final resting place for young men and women who died fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan. This emotional documentary fi...
- 1987
The Story of Junkie Junior (1987)
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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...
- 1994
Lock-Up: The Prisoners of Rikers Island (1994)
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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...
- 1989
One Year in a Life of Crime (1989)
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Their job is stealing, their lives a cruel dead end. Director Jon Alpert takes his cameras undercover for this hard-hitting look at men who live by theft and suffer addiction. Focusing on a year in the lives of three professional criminals, this grit...
- 2018
All For One: Media Enabled Musketeers (2018)
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People with disabilities are the largest minority in the United States (57 million people) and in Russia (13 million people). This film follows the adventures of Russians and Americans with disabilities, who like the characters in the Dumas novel, w...
- 1974
Cuba: The People, Part I (1974)
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The first American television crew to be allowed into Cuba since the 1959 revolution, DCTV toured the country for six weeks to produce this candid portrait of life in Castro's Cuba....
- 1998
A Cinderella Season: The Lady Vols Fight Back (1998)
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The University of Tennessee lady volunteer basketball team is followed during their 1996 season....
- 1978
Healthcare: Your Money or Your Life (1978)
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A classic exposé on the disparity of health care services for the rich and poor in America, this incisive investigative report exemplifies the advocacy journalism of the Downtown Community Television Center (DCTV)...