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Joe Berlinger
Born Oct 30, 1961 · Boca Raton, Florida, USA
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.
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Documentary
Conversations with a Killer: The Charles Manson Tapes
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Documentary
Conversations with a Killer: The Son of Sam Tapes
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Documentary · Crime
Cold Case: Who Killed JonBenét Ramsey
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Documentary · Mystery · Crime
Hitler and the Nazis: Evil on Trial
2024
Documentary
Madoff: The Monster of Wall Street
2023
Documentary · Crime
Conversations with a Killer: The Jeffrey Dahmer Tapes
2022
Documentary · Crime
Conversations with a Killer: The John Wayne Gacy Tapes
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Documentary
Crime Scene: The Times Square Killer
2021
Documentary · Crime · Mystery
Confronting a Serial Killer
2021
Documentary · Crime
Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel
2021
Documentary · Crime · Mystery
The Longest Wave
2019
Documentary
Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile
2019
Drama · Crime
Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes
2019
Documentary · Crime
Cold Blooded: The Clutter Family Murders
2018
Documentary · Crime
Intent to Destroy: Death, Denial & Depiction
2017
Documentary
Tony Robbins: I Am Not Your Guru
2016
Documentary
Judgment Day: Prison or Parole?
2016
Documentary
Ubah!
2015
Documentary
We the Economy: 20 Short Films You Can't Afford to Miss
2014
Documentary
Metallica: This Monster Lives
2014
Documentary
Whitey: United States of America v. James J. Bulger
2014
Crime · Documentary
Hank: 5 Years from the Brink
2013
Documentary
Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory
2012
Documentary · Crime
Paul Simon: Under African Skies
2012
Music · Documentary · History
Crude
2009
Documentary
10 Days That Unexpectedly Changed America
2006
Documentary · News
Infrarouge
2006
Documentary
Gray Matter
2004
Documentary
Metallica: Some Kind of Monster
2004
Documentary · Music
imagine…
2003
Documentary · News
Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2
2000
Horror · Mystery
Paradise Lost 2: Revelations
2000
Documentary · Crime
Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills
1996
Documentary · Crime
Homicide: Life on the Street
1993
Mystery · Drama · Crime
Brother's Keeper
1992
Documentary
American Playhouse
1982
Drama · Comedy
Acting
Lust for Fear - True Crime Fascination
2023
Documentary
Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile
2019
Drama · Crime
Tony Robbins: I Am Not Your Guru
2016
Documentary
Devil's Knot
2013
Crime · Drama · Thriller
Gray Matter
2004
Documentary