One Year in a Life of Crime (1989)
- HD 1080
- Runtime: 55m.
- Status: Released
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- Languages: en
- Country: United States of America
- Director: Jon Alpert
- Stars: Jon Alpert, Robert Steffey, Freddie Rodriguez
- keywords: new jersey, cocaine, domestic abuse, shoplifting, spouse abuse, shoplifter, uneducated, newark, new jersey
- providers: Max
- The One Year in a Life of Crime is featured in the top rankings of 1989
- #11 in Top Documentary Movies of 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.