Joe Berlinger Filmography

Born:: October 30, 1961
Occupation:: Director, Editor, Executive Producer, Producer, Screenwriter
Biography:: Since the release of his breakout documentary Brother's Keeper in 1992, storyteller and documentarian Joe Berlinger has been obsessed with scrutinizing the criminal justice system in small-town America and its sometimes frightening treatment of the socially abandoned. From the tragic figure of...Read More

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Gold Rush (January 24, 1848)

Crew: Co-Executive Producer

2006
Murder at the Fair: The Assassination of President McKinley (September 6, 1901)

Crew: Director

2006
Iconoclasts: Batali on Stipe

Crew: Director

2005
Iconoclasts: Redford on Newman

Crew: Director

2005
Iconoclasts: Grazer on Redstone

Crew: Director

2005
Iconoclasts: Jackson on Russell

Crew: Director

2005
Metallica: Some Kind of Monster

Crew: Director, Executive Producer, Producer

Actors: Metallica, James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich, Kirk Hammett, Robert Trujillo

Synopsis: Award-winning filmmakers Bruce Sinofsky and Joe Berlinger (of the Paradise Lost films on HBO) direct Metallica: Some Kind of Monster, a documentary about rock stars in therapy. After 20 years of heavy metal, a few members of Metallica decide to hire psychologist Phil Towle to work out some group Read More

7/9/04
Gray Matter

Crew: Director, Executive Producer, Screenwriter

Synopsis: Follow acclaimed documentarian Joe Berlinger (Paradise Lost, Metallica: Some Kind of Monster) as he explores one of the darkest wartime atrocities in recorded history in this affecting look at the children who suffered unspeakable horrors in the brutal first act of the Holocaust. In the Spring of Read More

2004
West Memphis Three

Crew: Executive Producer

2004
Judgment Day: Should the Guilty Go Free?

Crew: Director

2002
Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Kim Director, Jeffrey Donovan, Erica Leerhsen, Tristen Skyler, Stephen Barker Turner

Synopsis: One of the most financially successful independent films of all time spawns a sequel that at once honors and confronts the pseudo-documentary style of the original in this follow-up to The Blair Witch Project. After The Blair Witch Project becomes a box-office smash, tourists begin to descend upon Read More

10/27/00
Paradise Lost 2: Revelations

Crew: Director, Executive Producer, Producer

Synopsis: This video takes another look at the murders of three young boys in Robin Hood Falls, AR. Their deaths were the subject of a 1996 film entitled Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills. Many questions have been raised about the evidence against three young men who were convicted of the Read More

2000
Homicide: Life on the Street - Identity Crisis

Crew: Director

Actors: Richard Belzer, Giancarlo Esposito, Peter Gerety, Clark Johnson, Yaphet Kotto

Synopsis: A man is found murdered -- with his nose removed -- in his own backyard. To solves this case, Mike Giardello (Giancarlo Esposito) plumbs the depths of the Federal Witness Protection program, only to conclude that his FBI bosses aren't being up-front with him. Elsewhere, a bartender at a strip club Read More

1999
Where It's At: The Rolling Stone State of the Union

Crew: Director

1998
Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills

Crew: Director, Editor, Producer

Synopsis: Following their acclaimed documentary about a controversial death in a small town, Brother's Keeper, filmmakers Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky, explore another criminal case with even more complex strands. When the mutilated corpses of three eight-year-old boys are found near a wooded stream in Read More

1996
Brother's Keeper

Crew: Director, Editor, Executive Producer, Producer, Screenwriter

Synopsis: The first feature-length effort by documentary filmmakers Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky, Brother's Keeper unfolds a strange-but-true story about a most unorthodox family. 59-year-old Delbert Ward lives with his brothers Bill, Roscoe, and Lyman on a dairy farm near the upstate New York village Read More

1992