Known For
Directing
Born
Oct 30, 1961
Place of Birth
Boca Raton, Florida, USA
Credits
52 titles
Joe Berlinger
Biography
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.
Known For
Filmography
The Idaho Murders: College Nightmare
Executive Producer
Conversations with a Killer: The Son of Sam Tapes
Director
Cold Case: The Tylenol Murders
Executive Producer
Cold Case: Who Killed JonBenét Ramsey
Director
Hitler and the Nazis: Evil on Trial
Executive Producer
Crime Scene Berlin: Nightlife Killer
Executive Producer
Lust for Fear - True Crime Fascination
Self
Madoff: The Monster of Wall Street
Executive Producer
Crime Scene: The Texas Killing Fields
Executive Producer
Conversations with a Killer: The Jeffrey Dahmer Tapes
Executive Producer
Shadowland
Executive Producer
Conversations with a Killer: The John Wayne Gacy Tapes
Executive Producer
Crime Scene: The Times Square Killer
Executive Producer
Confronting a Serial Killer
Director
Murder Among the Mormons
Executive Producer
Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel
Executive Producer
Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich
Executive Producer
The Longest Wave
Director
I Am Not Alone
Executive Producer
Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile
Colorado Jailhouse Reporter
Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes
Executive Producer
Paris to Pittsburgh
Executive Producer
Cold Blooded: The Clutter Family Murders
Director
Intent to Destroy: Death, Denial & Depiction
Director
Tony Robbins: I Am Not Your Guru
Self - Documentary Director
Judgment Day: Prison or Parole?
Director
Ubah!
Director
We the Economy: 20 Short Films You Can't Afford to Miss
Director
Metallica: This Monster Lives
Director
Whitey: United States of America v. James J. Bulger
Producer
Hank: 5 Years from the Brink
Director
Devil's Knot
Very Special Appearance
Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory
Director
Paul Simon: Under African Skies
Director
Captive Beauty
Executive Producer
Crude
Director
10 Days That Unexpectedly Changed America
Director
Infrarouge
Director
Gray Matter
Self
Metallica: Some Kind of Monster
Director
imagine…
Director
Judgment Day: Should the Guilty Go Free
Director
The Virtual Corpse
Executive Producer
Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2
Burkittsville Tourist
Paradise Lost 2: Revelations
Director
Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills
Self (voice)
Homicide: Life on the Street
Director
Brother's Keeper
Director
Outrageous Taxi Stories
Director
American Playhouse
Director