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Joe Berlinger

American documentary filmmaker · United States · On the map · Directors · Born 1961 · age 65

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:...

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2026Conversations with a Killer: The Charles Manson TapesSeries, Director, CreatorPrimetime Preacher$Film, 2026Director2025Cold Case: The Tylenol MurdersSeries, Producer2023Madoff: The Monster of Wall StreetSeries, Director, ProducerLust for Fear - True Crime FascinationFilm, 20232022Conversations with a Killer: The Jeffrey Dahmer TapesSeries, Director, Creator2021Confronting a Serial KillerSeries, Director, Creator2019Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy TapesSeries, Director, Creator2018Cold Blooded: The Clutter Family MurdersFilm, Director2017Intent to Destroy: Death, Denial & DepictionFilm, Director, Writer2016Judgment Day: Prison or Parole?Series, Director, CreatorTony Robbins: I Am Not Your GuruFilm, 2016Director, Producer2014Metallica: This Monster LivesFilm, Director2013Devil's KnotFilm, Very Special Appearance2012Paradise Lost 3: PurgatoryFilm, Director, Producer2011Captive BeautyFilm, Producer200610 Days That Unexpectedly Changed AmericaSeries, Director, Producer2004Gray MatterFilm, Director, Writer2003Judgment Day: Should the Guilty Go FreeFilm, Director2000Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2Film, Director, Writer1993Homicide: Life on the StreetSeries, Director1992Brother's KeeperFilm, Director, Producer1989Outrageous Taxi StoriesFilm, Director1982American PlayhouseSeries, Director1961Born30 October 1961

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  • Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills 1996
  • Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory 2012
  • Paradise Lost 2: Revelations 2000
  • Metallica: Some Kind of Monster 2004
  • Brother's Keeper 1992

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Filmography 30

102 credits on file

Television 24

Media & music

Photos 1

Awards

Directors Guild of America Award

About this person

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.

Country
United States
Category
Directors
Type
Movie Director
Status
Living
Dates
Born 1961 · age 65

In the same film or series as Joe

Serj TankianAlso in I Am Not Alone (2019)Whitey BulgerAlso in Whitey: United States of America v. James J. Bulger (2014)Rachel BrosnahanAlso in Paris to Pittsburgh (2018)Grace Victoria CoxAlso in Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile (2019)Brian KoppelmanAlso in Tony Robbins: I Am Not Your Guru (2016)