The Last Game – October 8, 2025 – 12pm at HHOF TSN Theatre

Jon Alpert is an American journalist and documentary filmmaker, known for his use of a cinéma vérité approach in his films.

A native of Port Chester, New York, Jonathan B. Alpert is a 1970 graduate of Colgate University and has a 4th degree black belt in karate. In fact he once won the North American team-kumite Karate Championship despite fighting with three broken ribs.
Alpert has traveled widely as an investigative journalist and has reported from Vietnam, Cambodia, Iran, Nicaragua, the Philippines, Cuba, China, and Afghanistan. He has made films for NBC, PBS, and HBO. Over the course of his career, he has won 17 National Emmy Awards, ranging from Best Investigative Reporting to Best Sports Documentary. Uniquely, he has won National Emmy Awards in every craft category: Cinematography, Directing, Editing and Sound. Alpert has also won four DuPont-Columbia Awards and a Peabody Award.[4] He has been nominated for a 2010 Academy Award in the category of Best Documentary, Short Subject for China’s Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province. He was nominated for a 2013 Academy Award in the same category for Redemption.  Alpert won the Erikson Institute Prize for Excellence in Mental Health Media with co-director Ellen Goosenberg Kent for their documentary War Torn: 1861-2010.