Joe Berlinger
Born: 1961-10-30 in Boca Raton, Florida, USA
Known For: Directing
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.
Filmography
2025
- Cold Case: The Tylenol Murders ... (Executive Producer)
- Conversations with a Killer: The Son of Sam Tapes ... (Director)
2024
- Hitler and the Nazis: Evil on Trial ... (Executive Producer)
- Cold Case: Who Killed JonBenét Ramsey ... (Director)
- Crime Scene Berlin: Nightlife Killer ... (Executive Producer)
2023
- Madoff: The Monster of Wall Street ... (Executive Producer)
- Lust for Fear - True Crime Fascination as Self
2022
- Conversations with a Killer: The Jeffrey Dahmer Tapes ... (Executive Producer)
- Conversations with a Killer: The John Wayne Gacy Tapes ... (Executive Producer)
- Crime Scene: The Texas Killing Fields ... (Executive Producer)
- Shadowland ... (Executive Producer)
2021
- Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel ... (Executive Producer)
- Crime Scene: The Times Square Killer ... (Executive Producer)
- Murder Among the Mormons ... (Executive Producer)
- Confronting a Serial Killer ... (Director)
2020
- Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich ... (Executive Producer)
2019
- Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile as Colorado Jailhouse Reporter
- Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes ... (Executive Producer)
- I Am Not Alone ... (Executive Producer)
- The Longest Wave ... (Director)
2018
- Paris to Pittsburgh ... (Executive Producer)
- Cold Blooded: The Clutter Family Murders ... (Director)
2017
- Intent to Destroy: Death, Denial & Depiction ... (Director)
2016
- Tony Robbins: I Am Not Your Guru as Self - Documentary Director
- Judgment Day: Prison or Parole? ... (Executive Producer)
2015
- Ubah! ... (Director)
2014
- Whitey: United States of America v. James J. Bulger ... (Producer)
- Metallica: This Monster Lives ... (Director)
- We the Economy: 20 Short Films You Can't Afford to Miss ... (Director)
2013
- Devil's Knot as Very Special Appearance
- Hank: 5 Years from the Brink ... (Director)
2012
- Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory ... (Producer)
- Paul Simon: Under African Skies ... (Director)
2011
- Captive Beauty ... (Executive Producer)
2009
- Crude ... (Director)
2006
- Infrarouge ... (Screenplay)
- 10 Days That Unexpectedly Changed America ... (Director)
2004
- Metallica: Some Kind of Monster ... (Director)
- Gray Matter as Self
2003
- imagine… ... (Director)
- The Virtual Corpse ... (Executive Producer)
- Judgment Day: Should the Guilty Go Free ... (Director)
2000
- Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 as Burkittsville Tourist
- Paradise Lost 2: Revelations ... (Director)
1996
- Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills as Self (voice)
1993
- Homicide: Life on the Street ... (Director)
1992
- Brother's Keeper ... (Director)
1989
- Outrageous Taxi Stories ... (Director)