Joe Berlinger
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.
37 directing credits · 7 acting credits
Directing · 37
Homicide: Life on the Street
1993
Infrarouge
2006
imagine…
2003
Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile
2019
Hitler and the Nazis: Evil on Trial
2024
Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes
2019
Conversations with a Killer: The Jeffrey Dahmer Tapes
2022
Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2
2000
Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel
2021
Conversations with a Killer: The John Wayne Gacy Tapes
2022
Madoff: The Monster of Wall Street
2023
Conversations with a Killer: The Son of Sam Tapes
2025
Crime Scene: The Times Square Killer
2021
Cold Case: Who Killed JonBenét Ramsey
2024
10 Days That Unexpectedly Changed America
2006
Confronting a Serial Killer
2021
Metallica: Some Kind of Monster
2004
Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory
2012
We the Economy: 20 Short Films You Can't Afford to Miss
2014
Judgment Day: Prison or Parole?
2016
Paradise Lost 2: Revelations
2000
Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills
1996
Tony Robbins: I Am Not Your Guru
2016
Whitey: United States of America v. James J. Bulger
2014
Paul Simon: Under African Skies
2012
Intent to Destroy: Death, Denial & Depiction
2017
Brother's Keeper
1992
Metallica: This Monster Lives
2014
Crude
2009
The Longest Wave
2019
Hank: 5 Years from the Brink
2013
Ubah!
2015
Cold Blooded: The Clutter Family Murders
2018
Fail-Safe
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Gray Matter
2004
Judgment Day: Should the Guilty Go Free
2003
Outrageous Taxi Stories
1989
Acting · 7
Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile
2019
Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2
2000
Devil's Knot
2013
Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills
1996
Tony Robbins: I Am Not Your Guru
2016
Lust for Fear - True Crime Fascination
2023
Gray Matter
2004