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