Joe Berlinger

Known for DirectingBorn 1961-10-30 (age 64)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.Read more

Movies & web series

Judgment Day: Should the Guilty Go Free

I Am Not Alone

The Virtual Corpse

Homicide: Life on the Street

Conversations with a Killer: The Jeffrey Dahmer Tapes

Hitler and the Nazis: Evil on Trial

Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes

Conversations with a Killer: The John Wayne Gacy Tapes

Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills

Cold Case: Who Killed JonBenét Ramsey

Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory

Madoff: The Monster of Wall Street

Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich

Paul Simon: Under African Skies

Murder Among the Mormons

Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile

Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel

Paradise Lost 2: Revelations

Conversations with a Killer: The Son of Sam Tapes

We the Economy: 20 Short Films You Can't Afford to Miss

Metallica: Some Kind of Monster

Gray Matter

Cold Case: The Tylenol Murders

Hank: 5 Years from the Brink

Brother's Keeper

Crime Scene: The Times Square Killer

Outrageous Taxi Stories

Crime Scene Berlin: Nightlife Killer

Paris to Pittsburgh

Shadowland

Tony Robbins: I Am Not Your Guru

Crime Scene: The Texas Killing Fields

Whitey: United States of America v. James J. Bulger

Crude

Devil's Knot

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Infrarouge

Metallica: This Monster Lives

Confronting a Serial Killer

Intent to Destroy: Death, Denial & Depiction

Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2

10 Days That Unexpectedly Changed America

Lust for Fear - True Crime Fascination

The Longest Wave

Cold Blooded: The Clutter Family Murders

Judgment Day: Prison or Parole?

Ubah!

Captive Beauty