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Joe Berlinger

Highest Rated: 100% Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills (1996)

Lowest Rated: 14% Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 (2000)

Birthday: Oct 30, 1961

Birthplace: Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA

Advertising executive-turned-documentarian Joe Berlinger has created some of the most riveting nonfiction films of the 1990s with his partner Bruce Sinofsky. Beginning his career in advertising at McCann-Erickson in 1983, he moved to Ogilvy & Mather's Frankfurt office to produce TV commercials the following year. By he had joined Maysles Films, where he worked his way up to executive producer. At Maysles, Berlinger learned about documentary filmmaking and also met his future collaborator. Berlinger did publicity for Maysles' "Christo in Paris" (1990), among other projects.

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Highest rated movies

100% 94% Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills
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100% 88% Brother's Keeper
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100% 91% Under African Skies
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100% 93% Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory
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95% 85% Crude
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92% 84% Revelations: Paradise Lost 2
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88% I Am Not Alone
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88% 83% Metallica: Some Kind of Monster
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83% 71% Whitey: United States of America v. James J. Bulger
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Joe Berlinger FILMMAKER JOE BERLINGER AT THE TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL 2017 FOR THE FILM, 'INTENT TO DESTROY'. PARADISE LOST 3: PURGATORY, from left on death row in 1997: director Joe Berlinger, Damien Wayne Echols, director Bruce Sinofsky, 2011. ph: Alex Zakrzewski/©HBO Films WHITEY: UNITED STATES OF AMERICA V. JAMES J. BULGER, director Joe Berlinger (center), Patricia Donahue (right), wife of Bugler victim Michael Donahue, on set, 2014. ©Magnolia Pictures PARADISE LOST 3: PURGATORY, from left on death row in 2009: director Joe Berlinger, Damien Wayne Echols, director Bruce Sinofsky, 2011. ph: Bob Richman/©HBO Films BOOK OF SHADOWS: BLAIR WITCH 2, director Joe Berlinger, on set, 2000. ©Artisan Entertainment PARADISE LOST 3: PURGATORY, from left in 1993: director Joe Berlinger, cinematographer Bob Richman, Damien Wayne Echols, director Bruce Sinofsky, 2011. ©HBO Films Robbie Naish and Joe Berlinger talking behinbd the scenes on beach at Skeleton Bay, Namibia on May 07, 2017 View more photos

Filmography

Movies

Credit
60% No Score Yet The New Americans: Gaming a Revolution Executive Producer - 2023
83% No Score Yet Truth to Power Executive Producer - 2020
88% No Score Yet I Am Not Alone Executive Producer - 2019
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Longest Wave Director,
Writer,
Producer 		- 2019
54% 57% Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile Director - 2019
92% 93% Intent to Destroy Director,
Screenwriter,
Producer 		$13.2K 2017
No Score Yet 60% From the Ashes Executive Producer - 2017
45% 60% Tony Robbins: I Am Not Your Guru Director,
Producer 		- 2016
83% 71% Whitey: United States of America v. James J. Bulger Director,
Producer 		$75.6K 2014
50% 53% Hank: 5 Years From the Brink Director,
Screenwriter,
Producer 		- 2013
No Score Yet No Score Yet Pretty Old Executive Producer - 2012
100% 91% Under African Skies Director,
Producer 		- 2012
No Score Yet No Score Yet Captive Beauty Executive Producer - 2011
100% 93% Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory Director,
Producer 		- 2011
No Score Yet No Score Yet Black Tide: Voices From the Gulf Director - 2011
95% 85% Crude Director,
Producer,
Cinematographer 		$170.3K 2009
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Music Lesson Executive Producer - 2009
88% 83% Metallica: Some Kind of Monster Director,
Executive Producer,
Producer 		$1.2M 2004
92% 84% Revelations: Paradise Lost 2 Director - 2000
14% 18% Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 Director,
Writer 		$26.4M 2000
100% 94% Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills Unknown (Character),
Director,
Producer,
Film Editing 		- 1996
100% 88% Brother's Keeper Director,
Producer,
Executive Producer,
Film Editing 		- 1992

TV

Credit
100% No Score Yet Cold Case: Who Killed JonBenét Ramsey Executive Producer,
Director 		2024
90% 78% Madoff: The Monster of Wall Street Executive Producer 2023
100% 64% Crime Scene: The Texas Killing Fields Executive Producer 2022
No Score Yet 82% Conversations With a Killer: The Jeffrey Dahmer Tapes Executive Producer 2022
No Score Yet 60% Shadowland Executive Producer 2022
86% 85% Conversations With a Killer: The John Wayne Gacy Tapes Director 2022
77% 51% Crime Scene Executive Producer,
Director 		2021
No Score Yet No Score Yet Doctor's Orders Executive Producer 2021
83% 25% Confronting a Serial Killer Executive Producer,
Director 		2021
No Score Yet No Score Yet Wrong Man Unknown (Character),
Executive Producer,
Director 		2018 2020
56% 76% Conversations With a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes Executive Producer,
Director 		2019
No Score Yet No Score Yet Gone: The Forgotten Women of Ohio Unknown (Character) 2017
No Score Yet No Score Yet Killing Richard Glossip Executive Producer,
Director 		2017
No Score Yet No Score Yet Paradise Lost Director 1996 2000 2011
100% No Score Yet Hitler and the Nazis: Evil on Trial Executive Producer,
Director