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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% 93% Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory
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100% 88% Brother's Keeper
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100% 91% Under African Skies
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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

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The New Americans: Gaming a Revolution 60% 2023 Executive Producer Truth to Power 83% 2020 Executive Producer I Am Not Alone 88% 2019 Executive Producer The Longest Wave 2019 Director, Writer, Producer Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile 54% 57% 2019 Director Intent to Destroy 92% 93% 2017 Director, Screenwriter, Producer From the Ashes 60% 2017 Executive Producer Tony Robbins: I Am Not Your Guru 45% 60% 2016 Director, Producer Whitey: United States of America v. James J. Bulger 83% 71% 2014 Director, Producer Hank: 5 Years From the Brink 50% 53% 2013 Director, Screenwriter, Producer Pretty Old 2012 Executive Producer Under African Skies 100% 91% 2012 Director, Producer Captive Beauty 2011 Executive Producer Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory 100% 93% 2011 Director, Producer Black Tide: Voices From the Gulf 2011 Director Crude 95% 85% 2009 Director, Producer, Cinematographer The Music Lesson 2009 Executive Producer Metallica: Some Kind of Monster 88% 83% 2004 Director, Executive Producer, Producer Revelations: Paradise Lost 2 92% 84% 2000 Director Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 14% 18% 2000 Director, Writer Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills 100% 94% 1996 Actor, Director, Producer, Film Editing Brother's Keeper 100% 88% 1992 Director, Producer, Executive Producer, Film Editing
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