One Year in a Life of Crime (1989)

One Year in a Life of Crime (1989) - Documentary Movies 55 minutes. One Year in a Life of Crime: America Undercover. 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. new jersey, cocaine, domestic abuse, shoplifting, spouse abuse, shoplifter, uneducated, newark, new jersey