Joe Berlinger
Directing
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.
Known for
Directing38
movieThe Longest Wave
2019
Director
movieUbah!
2015
Director
movieCrude
2009
Director
tvInfrarouge
2006
Director
movieGray Matter
2004
Director
tvimagine…
2003
Director
movieBrother's Keeper
1992
Director
tvAmerican Playhouse
1982
Director
Fail-Safe
Director
Production34
tvConversations with a Killer: The Son of Sam Tapes
2025
Executive Producer
tvCold Case: The Tylenol Murders
2025
Executive Producer
tvCold Case: Who Killed JonBenét Ramsey
2024
Executive Producer
tvHitler and the Nazis: Evil on Trial
2024
Executive Producer
tvCrime Scene Berlin: Nightlife Killer
2024
Executive Producer
tvMadoff: The Monster of Wall Street
2023
Executive Producer
tvCrime Scene: The Texas Killing Fields
2022
Executive Producer
tvConversations with a Killer: The Jeffrey Dahmer Tapes
2022
Executive Producer
tvShadowland
2022
Executive Producer
tvConversations with a Killer: The John Wayne Gacy Tapes
2022
Executive Producer
tvCrime Scene: The Times Square Killer
2021
Executive Producer
tvConfronting a Serial Killer
2021
Executive Producer
tvMurder Among the Mormons
2021
Executive Producer
tvCrime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel
2021
Executive Producer
tvJeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich
2020
Executive Producer
movieThe Longest Wave
2019
Producer
movieI Am Not Alone
2019
Executive Producer
tvConversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes
2019
Executive Producer
movieParis to Pittsburgh
2018
Executive Producer
tvJudgment Day: Prison or Parole?
2016
Executive Producer
movieCaptive Beauty
2011
Executive Producer
movieCrude
2009
Producer
movieMetallica: Some Kind of Monster
2004
Executive Producer, Producer
The Virtual Corpse
2003
Executive Producer
movieBrother's Keeper
1992
Producer
Slay the Dreamer
Executive Producer
Acting7
movieExtremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile
2019
Colorado Jailhouse Reporter
movieTony Robbins: I Am Not Your Guru
2016
Self - Documentary Director
movieDevil's Knot
2013
Very Special Appearance
movieBook of Shadows: Blair Witch 2
2000
Burkittsville Tourist
Creator7
Writing5
Camera3
movieThe Longest Wave
2019
Additional Camera
movieTony Robbins: I Am Not Your Guru
2016
Additional Camera
movieCrude
2009
Director of Photography