Jon Alpert Movies

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

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

    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...

    No Contract, No Cookies: The Stella D'Oro Strike
  • 2002
    Papa

    Papa

    Papa

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    This is Jon Alpert's portrait of his father's struggles with growing old and nearing the end of life.

    Papa
  • 2017
    Rock and a Hard Place

    Rock and a Hard Place

    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...

    Rock and a Hard Place
  • 2009
    China's Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province

    China's Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province

    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...

    China's Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province
  • 1987
    The Story of Junkie Junior

    The Story of Junkie Junior

    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...

    The Story of Junkie Junior
  • 1980
    Third Avenue: Only the Strong Survive

    Third Avenue: Only the Strong Survive

    Third Avenue: Only the Strong Survive

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    The stories of six "ordinary" people who live or work along New York City's Third Avenue, which runs for sixteen miles through Manhattan, Brooklyn,...

    Third Avenue: Only the Strong Survive
  • 1986
    The Philippines: Life, Death and Revolution

    The Philippines: Life, Death and Revolution

    The Philippines: Life, Death and Revolution

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    The Philippines: Life, Death and Revolution
  • 1978
    Healthcare: Your Money or Your Life

    Healthcare: Your Money or Your Life

    Healthcare: Your Money or Your Life

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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...

    Healthcare: Your Money or Your Life
  • 2008
    Dirty Driving: Thundercars Of Indiana

    Dirty Driving: Thundercars Of Indiana

    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...

    Dirty Driving: Thundercars Of Indiana
  • 1994
    Lock-Up: The Prisoners of Rikers Island

    Lock-Up: The Prisoners of Rikers Island

    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...

    Lock-Up: The Prisoners of Rikers Island
  • 1974
    Cuba: The People, Part I

    Cuba: The People, Part I

    Cuba: The People, Part I

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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...

    Cuba: The People, Part I
  • 2008
    A Woman Among Boys

    A Woman Among Boys

    A Woman Among Boys

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    This documentary chronicles Ruth Lovelace, the first woman to coach the boys' basketball team at Boys and Girls High School in Brooklyn, N.Y. The...

    A Woman Among Boys
  • 1970
    The Raging Rabbi

    The Raging Rabbi

    The Raging Rabbi

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    While pursuing rabbinical studies, Yuri Foreman trains to become boxing's first Jewish world champion in decades, bridging two contrasting worlds.

    The Raging Rabbi
  • 2008
    Access Denied?: The Fight for Corporate Accountability

    Access Denied?: The Fight for Corporate Accountability

    Access Denied?: The Fight for Corporate Accountability

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    When Diana Levine went to the hospital in April 2000 seeking relief for a severe migraine headache, the professional musician and children's record...

    Access Denied?: The Fight for Corporate Accountability
  • 1984
    Hard Metal Disease

    Hard Metal Disease

    Hard Metal Disease

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    Examines "hard metals disease," cobalt poisoning among workers in the tungsten carbide machine tool industry. Alpert focuses on workers suffering...

    Hard Metal Disease
  • 2003
    Bridge to Baghdad II

    Bridge to Baghdad II

    Bridge to Baghdad II

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    Days after the U.S. declared the war officially over, Next Next Entertainment and DCTV sent a crew to a now smoldering Baghdad to rediscover the...

    Bridge to Baghdad II
  • 2003
    Bridge to Baghdad

    Bridge to Baghdad

    Bridge to Baghdad

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    Bridge to Baghdad
  • 2002
    Afghanistan: From Ground Zero to Ground Zero

    Afghanistan: From Ground Zero to Ground Zero

    Afghanistan: From Ground Zero to Ground Zero

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    Afghanistan: From Ground Zero to Ground Zero is the story of Masuda Sultan, a 23-year-old Afghan-American woman who travels back to Kandahar,...

    Afghanistan: From Ground Zero to Ground Zero
  • 1976
    Chinatown: Immigrants in America

    Chinatown: Immigrants in America

    Chinatown: Immigrants in America

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    Chinatown: Immigrants in America
  • 2005
    The Last Cowboy

    The Last Cowboy

    The Last Cowboy

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    Filmed over two decades in the life of Vern Sager and his family, The Last Cowboy captures a family's struggle to preserve a vanishing way of life as...

    The Last Cowboy