Alan Levin (filmmaker)

Alan Levin (as Alan Levi Stone, born February 28, 1926 in New York City; † 13 February 2006 in Maplewood, New Jersey) was an American journalist and documentary filmmaker.

Alan Levin served in World War II. He then studied at Wesleyan University in Connecticut. For the Associated Press and the New York Post, he worked as a journalist, 1963/64, for the Senator Harrison Williams. After that he went as a producer for two years to WABC - TV. His career as a documentary filmmaker, he finally began at Public Broadcasting Service (PBS). For a documentary on new, non- European immigrants in 1979, he won his first Emmy. After a documentary about the emerging new religious right in the USA, he was parted from PBS. He then began working several times with Bill Moyers - to create a film about the Iran - Contra Affair ( The Secret Government: The Constitution in Crisis Looked at the activities of the CIA leading up to the Iran -Contra Affair ), he won his second Emmy - then for Home Box Office (HBO ). In 1999 he won with his son Marc Levin a third Emmy for a documentary about the life of prisoners in Washington.