Jon Alpert Movies

Assembled by some of the nation's top documentary filmmakers, this centerpiece film in HBO's 'Addiction' campaign features insights from experts on...

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...

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

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...

People with disabilities are the largest minority in the United States (57 million people) and in Russia (13 million people). This film follows the...

Documentary on Antonio "King Tone" Fernandez and his gang, the Latin Kings, whose main target was to protect Latin people.

An intimate film about documentary filmmaker Brent Renaud, the first American journalist killed in Ukraine. Brent captured many wars on the front...

The University of Tennessee lady volunteer basketball team is followed during their 1996 season.

A classic exposé on the disparity of health care services for the rich and poor in America, this incisive investigative report exemplifies the...

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...