Joe Berlinger
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- October 30, 1961 (age 65)
- Birthplace
- Boca Raton, Florida, USA
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
Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile
Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2
Devil's Knot
Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich
Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes
Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel
Conversations with a Killer: The Jeffrey Dahmer Tapes
Metallica: Some Kind of Monster
Conversations with a Killer: The John Wayne Gacy Tapes
Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills
Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory
Homicide: Life on the Street
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Filmography
Fail-Safe
Movie · Director
Primetime Preacher$
Movie · Director
Conversations with a Killer: The Charles Manson Tapes
TV · Director · 3 eps
Conversations with a Killer: The Son of Sam Tapes
TV · Director · 3 eps
Cold Case: Who Killed JonBenét Ramsey
TV · Director · 3 eps
Hitler and the Nazis: Evil on Trial
TV · Director · 6 eps
Madoff: The Monster of Wall Street
TV · Director · 4 eps
Conversations with a Killer: The John Wayne Gacy Tapes
TV · Director · 3 eps
Conversations with a Killer: The Jeffrey Dahmer Tapes
TV · Director · 3 eps
Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel
TV · Director · 4 eps
Confronting a Serial Killer
TV · Director · 5 eps
Crime Scene: The Times Square Killer
TV · Director · 1 ep
Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile
Movie · Director
The Longest Wave
Movie · Director
Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes
TV · Director · 4 eps
Cold Blooded: The Clutter Family Murders
Movie · Director
Intent to Destroy: Death, Denial & Depiction
Movie · Director
Tony Robbins: I Am Not Your Guru
Movie · Director
Judgment Day: Prison or Parole?
TV · Director · 3 eps
Ubah!
Movie · Director
Whitey: United States of America v. James J. Bulger
Movie · Director
We the Economy: 20 Short Films You Can't Afford to Miss
Movie · Director
Metallica: This Monster Lives
Movie · Director
Hank: 5 Years from the Brink
Movie · Director
Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory
Movie · Director
Paul Simon: Under African Skies
Movie · Director
Crude
Movie · Director
10 Days That Unexpectedly Changed America
TV · Director · 1 ep
Infrarouge
TV · Director · 1 ep
Metallica: Some Kind of Monster
Movie · Director
Gray Matter
Movie · Director
Judgment Day: Should the Guilty Go Free
Movie · Director
imagine…
TV · Director · 1 ep
Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2
Movie · Director
Paradise Lost 2: Revelations
Movie · Director
Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills
Movie · Director
Homicide: Life on the Street
TV · Director · 1 ep
Brother's Keeper
Movie · Director
Outrageous Taxi Stories
Movie · Director
American Playhouse
TV · Director · 1 ep