Persian Gulf War. In November 2021, HBO Max announced they would debut Alpert's Life of Crime documentaries, a thirty-six year chronicle of criminal and drug addicts in Newark, New Jersey. The previous entries A Year in the Life of Crime (1989) and Life of Crime 2 (1998) will be followed with updates on all of participants. The Life of Crime documentary was nominated for a 2021 Peabody Award. Films 1974: Cuba: The People 1976: Chinatown: Immigrants in America (Co-Producer) 1977: Vietnam: Picking up the Pieces (Co-Director/Co-Producer) 1980: Third Avenue: Only the Strong Survive (Director) 1984: Hard Metal Disease (Producer/Director/Cinematographer/Sound) 1985: Vietnam: Talking to the people 1987: Junkie Junior (Director/Cinematographer/camera operator) 1989: One Year in A Life of Crime (Director/Producer) for America Undercover 1991: Rape: Cries from the Heartland (Executive Producer) 1995: High on Crack Street: Lost Lives in Lowell (Cinematographer/Producer) for America Undercover 1995: Lock-up: The Prisoners of Rikers Island 1998: Life of Crime 2 1998: A Cinderella Season: The Lady Vols Fight Back 2002: To Have and Have Not (Director) 2002: Afghanistan: From Ground Zero to Ground Zero (Director) 2002: Papa (Director/Producer) 2003: Latin Kings: A Street Gang Story (Director/Editor/Cinematographer/Producer) 2003: Coca and the Congressman (Director) 2004: The Last Cowboy (Director) 2004: Dope Sick Love (Executive Producer) 2004: Off to War (Executive Producer) 2004: Bullets in the Hood: A Bed-Stuy Story (Executive Producer) 2005: Venezuela: Revolution in Progress (Cinematographer) 2006: Baghdad ER (Director/Producer) 2007: Alive Day Memories: Home from Iraq (Producer/Director/Cinematographer) 2007: The Bridge TV Show (Executive Producer/Cinematographer) 2008: Section 60: Arlington National Cemetery (Co-Director/Co-Producer) 2008: Dirty Driving: Thundercars of Indiana (Director/Producer) 2008: A Woman Among Boys (Co-Director/Co-Producer) 2009: China's Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province (Co-Director/Co-Producer) 2012: In Tahrir Square (Co-Director/Co-Producer) 2013: Redemption (Co-Director) 2014: The Other Man: F.W. de Klerk and the End of Apartheid (Executive Producer) 2015: The Latin Explosion: A New America (Director/Producer) 2016: Banking on Bitcoin (Producer) 2016: Mariela Castro's March (Director/Producer) 2017: Rock and a Hard Place (Director/Producer) 2017: Cuba and the Cameraman (Director/Producer/Writer) 2018: All for One (Co-Director) 2019: Finding the Way Home (Producer/Director/Cinematographer/Sound) 2021: Life of Crime 1984-2020'' References External links Jon Alpert biography at Downtown Community Television Center Jon Alpert at allmovie Jon Alpert Discusses His Unfinished James Brown Documentary on Democracy Now! American documentary filmmakers American alternative journalists American investigative journalists American war correspondents Jewish American journalists Colgate University alumni People from Port Chester, New York 1949 births