Joe Berlinger
Joseph "Joe" Berlinger (born October 30, 1961) is an American documentary film-maker who, in collaboration with Bruce Sinofsky, has created such films as Paradise Lost about the West Memphis 3, Brother's Keeper, Some Kind of Monster, and Crude. In collaboration with journalist Greg Milner, Berlinger has also written a book called Metallica: This Monster Lives, which is about his journey from making the poorly received Blair Witch 2 to creating Some Kind of Monster with Metallica, one of the world's most famous metal bands. Berlinger has also worked in TV series such as Homicide: Life on the Street, D.C. and FanClub. The first movie Berlinger directed, in 1992, was the documentary My Brother's Keeper, which tells the story of Delbart Ward, an elderly man in Munnsville, New York, who was charged with second-degree murder following the death of his brother William. Chicago Tribune film critic Roger Ebert, in his review of the movie, called it "an extraordinary documentary about what happened next, as a town banded together to stop what folks saw as a miscarriage of justice." He graduated from Colgate University in 1983. He lives with his wife and daughters in New York.
Metallica: Some Kind of Monster
(Director)
Metallica: Some Kind of Monster
(Executive Producer)
Metallica: Some Kind of Monster
(Producer)
Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2
(Director)
Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2
(Screenplay)
Brother's Keeper
(Director)
Crude
(Director)
Whitey: United States of America v. James J. Bulger
(Producer)
Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills
(Director)
Paradise Lost 2: Revelations
(Director)
Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory
(Director)
Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory
(Producer)
Paul Simon: Under African Skies
(Director)
Outrageous Taxi Stories
(Director)
Hank: 5 Years from the Brink
(Director)
Whitey: United States of America v. James J. Bulger
(Director)
Brother's Keeper
(Editor)
Brother's Keeper
(Producer)
Paradise Lost 2: Revelations
(Producer)
We the Economy: 20 Short Films You Can't Afford to Miss
(Director)
Tony Robbins: I Am Not Your Guru
(Director)
Tony Robbins: I Am Not Your Guru
(Producer)
Metallica: This Monster Lives
(Director)
Gray Matter
(Director)
Judgment Day: Should the Guilty Go Free
(Director)
The Virtual Corpse
(Executive Producer)
Intent to Destroy: Death, Denial & Depiction
(Director)
Intent to Destroy: Death, Denial & Depiction
(Producer)
Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile
(Director)
Crude
(Director of Photography)
Crude
(Producer)
Ubah!
(Director)
Cold Blooded: The Clutter Family Murders
(Director)
Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills
(Producer)
Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills
(Editor)
Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile
(Producer)
Paris to Pittsburgh
(Executive Producer)
I Am Not Alone
(Executive Producer)
The Longest Wave
(Director)
The Longest Wave
(Writer)
The Longest Wave
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The Longest Wave
(Additional Camera)
Intent to Destroy: Death, Denial & Depiction
(Writer)
Gray Matter
(Writer)
imagine…
(Director)
10 Days That Unexpectedly Changed America
(Director)
10 Days That Unexpectedly Changed America
(Producer)
Homicide: Life on the Street
(Director)
Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes
(Executive Producer)
Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes
(Director)
Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich
(Executive Producer)
Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel
(Executive Producer)
Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel
(Director)
Confronting a Serial Killer
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Confronting a Serial Killer
(Executive Producer)
Murder Among the Mormons
(Executive Producer)
Crime Scene: The Times Square Killer
(Executive Producer)
Crime Scene: The Times Square Killer
(Director)
Conversations with a Killer: The John Wayne Gacy Tapes
(Director)
Conversations with a Killer: The John Wayne Gacy Tapes
(Executive Producer)
Shadowland
(Executive Producer)
Crime Scene: The Texas Killing Fields
(Executive Producer)
Conversations with a Killer: The Jeffrey Dahmer Tapes
(Executive Producer)
Conversations with a Killer: The Jeffrey Dahmer Tapes
(Director)
Madoff: The Monster of Wall Street
(Executive Producer)
Madoff: The Monster of Wall Street
(Director)
Infrarouge
(Screenplay)
Infrarouge
(Director)
Crime Scene Berlin: Nightlife Killer
(Executive Producer)
Hitler and the Nazis: Evil on Trial
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Hitler and the Nazis: Evil on Trial
(Executive Producer)
Judgment Day: Prison or Parole?
(Executive Producer)
Judgment Day: Prison or Parole?
(Director)
Cold Case: Who Killed JonBenét Ramsey
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Cold Case: Who Killed JonBenét Ramsey
(Executive Producer)
Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes
(Creator)
Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel
(Creator)
Confronting a Serial Killer
(Creator)
Crime Scene: The Times Square Killer
(Creator)
Conversations with a Killer: The John Wayne Gacy Tapes
(Creator)
Conversations with a Killer: The Jeffrey Dahmer Tapes
(Creator)
Judgment Day: Prison or Parole?
(Creator)