# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joe-berlinger
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:59:07.923Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joe-berlinger"
name: "Joe Berlinger"
slug: "joe-berlinger"
description: "Joseph Berlinger is an American documentary filmmaker and producer. Particularly focused on true crime documentaries, Berlinger's films and docu-series draw attention to social justice issues in the US and abroad in such films as Brother's Keeper, Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills, Crude, Whitey: United States of America v. James J. Bulger and Intent To Destroy: Death, Denial and Depiction."
tagline: "American documentary filmmaker"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Berlinger_ITD_Promise_Shoot_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1961-10-30"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           11.23920933333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm0075666"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
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    title: "Joe Berlinger"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Berlinger"
    title: "Joe Berlinger"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Berlinger"
    title: "Joe Berlinger"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump