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One Year in a Life of Crime

  • December 1989
  • 55mins

  • Documentary
  • Directed by

    Jon Alpert,

    Starring

    Robert Steffey,

    Freddie Rodriguez,

    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.