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Joe Berlinger
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 W…
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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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2026
Conversations with a Killer: The Charles Manson Tapes
TV show Executive Producer
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2026
The Idaho Murders: College Nightmare
TV show Executive Producer
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2025
Conversations with a Killer: The Son of Sam Tapes
TV show Director
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2025
Cold Case: The Tylenol Murders
TV show Executive Producer
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2024
Cold Case: Who Killed JonBenét Ramsey
TV show Director
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2024
Hitler and the Nazis: Evil on Trial
TV show Executive Producer
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2024
Crime Scene Berlin: Nightlife Killer
TV show Executive Producer
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2023
Lust for Fear - True Crime Fascination
Movie Self
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2023
Madoff: The Monster of Wall Street
TV show Director
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2022
Crime Scene: The Texas Killing Fields
TV show Executive Producer
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2022
Conversations with a Killer: The Jeffrey Dahmer Tapes
TV show Executive Producer
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2022
Shadowland
TV show Executive Producer
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2022
Conversations with a Killer: The John Wayne Gacy Tapes
TV show Executive Producer
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2021
Crime Scene: The Times Square Killer
TV show Executive Producer
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2021
Confronting a Serial Killer
TV show Director
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2021
Murder Among the Mormons
TV show Executive Producer
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2021
Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel
TV show Executive Producer
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2020
Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich
TV show Executive Producer
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2019
The Longest Wave
Movie Writer
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2019
I Am Not Alone
Movie Executive Producer
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2019
Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile
Movie Colorado Jailhouse Reporter
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2019
Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes
TV show Director
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2018
Paris to Pittsburgh
Movie Executive Producer
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2018
Cold Blooded: The Clutter Family Murders
Movie Director
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2017
Intent to Destroy: Death, Denial & Depiction
Movie Director
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2016
Tony Robbins: I Am Not Your Guru
Movie Self - Documentary Director
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2016
Judgment Day: Prison or Parole?
TV show Executive Producer
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2015
Ubah!
Movie Director
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2014
We the Economy: 20 Short Films You Can't Afford to Miss
Movie Director
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2014
Metallica: This Monster Lives
Movie Director
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2014
Whitey: United States of America v. James J. Bulger
Movie Producer
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2013
Hank: 5 Years from the Brink
Movie Director
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2013
Devil's Knot
Movie Very Special Appearance
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2012
Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory
Movie Producer
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2012
Paul Simon: Under African Skies
Movie Director
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2011
Captive Beauty
Movie Executive Producer
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2009
Crude
Movie Director
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2006
10 Days That Unexpectedly Changed America
TV show Producer
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2006
Infrarouge
TV show Director
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2004
Gray Matter
Movie Self
