One Year in a Life of Crime
6.8 / Rating
1989
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 gritty profile—which includes hidden-camera footage of actual thefts—exposes the "petty" crimes that are paralyzing America.
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The Life of Crime trilogy is a series of three American documentaries from director Jon Alpert titled One Year in a Life of Crime (1989), Life of Crime 2 (1998), and Life of Crime, 1984-2020 (2021). The documentaries appeared on HBO and follow the lives of four criminals in Newark, New Jersey, as they shoplift, use drugs, and navigate work, family, and the penal system over thirty-six years.
