Joe Berlinger
Known for: Directing
Born: October 30, 1961
Place of birth: 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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Filmography
29 movies · 24 TV shows, newest first
7.6
Conversations with a Killer: The Charles Manson Tapes
2026
6.7
The Idaho Murders: College Nightmare
2026
7.2
Conversations with a Killer: The Son of Sam Tapes
2025
6.8
Cold Case: The Tylenol Murders
2025
7.3
Cold Case: Who Killed JonBenét Ramsey
2024
7.5
Hitler and the Nazis: Evil on Trial
2024
6.6
Crime Scene Berlin: Nightlife Killer
2024
NR
Lust for Fear - True Crime Fascination
2023
7.1
Madoff: The Monster of Wall Street
2023
6.5
Crime Scene: The Texas Killing Fields
2022
7.8
Conversations with a Killer: The Jeffrey Dahmer Tapes
2022
6.5
Shadowland
2022
7.4
Conversations with a Killer: The John Wayne Gacy Tapes
2022
6.7
Crime Scene: The Times Square Killer
2021
5.0
Confronting a Serial Killer
2021
7.0
Murder Among the Mormons
2021
6.9
Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel
2021
7.1
Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich
2020
NR
The Longest Wave
2019
8.3
I Am Not Alone
2019
7.0
Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile
2019
7.5
Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes
2019
6.5
Paris to Pittsburgh
2018
NR
Cold Blooded: The Clutter Family Murders
2018
4.8
Intent to Destroy: Death, Denial & Depiction
2017
6.4
Tony Robbins: I Am Not Your Guru
2016
8.0
Judgment Day: Prison or Parole?
2016
NR
Ubah!
2015
7.0
We the Economy: 20 Short Films You Can't Afford to Miss
2014
5.8
Metallica: This Monster Lives
2014
6.4
Whitey: United States of America v. James J. Bulger
2014
6.8
Hank: 5 Years from the Brink
2013
6.2
Devil's Knot
2013
7.4
Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory
2012
7.1
Paul Simon: Under African Skies
2012
NR
Captive Beauty
2011
6.5
Crude
2009
2.0
10 Days That Unexpectedly Changed America
2006
6.0
Infrarouge
2006
7.0
Gray Matter
2004
7.1
Metallica: Some Kind of Monster
2004
6.2
imagine…
200310.0
Judgment Day: Should the Guilty Go Free
20038.0
The Virtual Corpse
2003
4.3
Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2
2000
7.2
Paradise Lost 2: Revelations
2000
7.6
Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills
1996
8.1
Homicide: Life on the Street
1993
7.1
Brother's Keeper
19927.0
Outrageous Taxi Stories
1989
6.6
American Playhouse
1982NR
Fail-Safe
—NR
Slay the Dreamer
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