Joe Berlinger – MRQE

Gray Matter (TV)

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

In the spring of 2002, filmmaker Joe Berlinger traveled to Vienna to witness the burial of the preserved brains of over 700 children killed at a Nazi “euthanasia” clinic. GRAY MATTER chronicles the filmmaker’s personal journey as he searches for Dr. Heinrich Gross — known as the “Austrian Dr. Mengele” — who allegedly participated in these killings. Along the way Berlinger meets survivors of the clinic, as well as other remarkable individuals, who are confronting a nation that has only begun to grapple with its denial of this horrific legacy.

“Conversations with a Killer: The John Wayne Gacy Tapes”

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

He dined with the powerful. He preyed on the vulnerable. Beneath a smiling exterior was the horrifying darkness of a sadistic serial killer.

The Longest Wave

Mon, 25 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Oscar-nominated filmmaker Joe Berlinger travels the globe with legendary windsurfer and pioneering waterman Robby Naish, a 24-time world champion whose quest to master the world’s longest waves unexpectedly reveals his vulnerabilities as a competitor, mentor and father. THE LONGEST WAVE transcends the action sports genre by capturing obstacles outside of the legendary athlete’s professional life in an intimate, cinéma-vérité style, revealing Naish balancing the pursuit of excellence at sea with the demands of life’s complications on land.

Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile

Mon, 25 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A chronicle of the crimes of Ted Bundy, from the perspective of his longtime girlfriend, Elizabeth Kloepfer, who refused to believe the truth about him for years.

Intent to Destroy

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

INTENT TO DESTROY embeds with a historic feature production as a springboard to explore the violent history of the Armenian Genocide and legacy of Turkish suppression and denial over the past century.

Tony Robbins: I Am Not Your Guru

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Granted unprecedented access, Berlinger captures renowned life and business strategist Tony Robbins behind the scenes of his mega seminar Date with Destiny, pulling back the curtain on this life-altering and controversial event, the zealous participants and the man himself.

Whitey: United States of America v. James J. Bulger

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A documentary that captures the sensational trial of infamous gangster James ‘Whitey’ Bulger, using the legal proceedings as a springboard to explore allegations of corruption within the highest levels of law enforcement. Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Joe Berlinger examines Bulger’s relationship with the FBI and Department of Justice that allowed him to reign over a criminal empire in Boston for decades.

Hank: 5 Years from the Brink

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

For three weeks in September 2008, one person was charged with preventing the collapse of the global economy. No one understood the financial markets better than Hank Paulson, the former CEO of Goldman Sachs. In Hank: Five Years from the Brink, Paulson tells the complete story of how he persuaded banks, Congress and presidential candidates to sign off on nearly $1 trillion in bailouts – even as he found the behavior that led to the crisis, and the bailouts themselves, morally reprehensible. Directed by Academy Award nominee Joe Berlinger (Paradise Lost Trilogy, Some Kind of Monster), the film features Paulson, and his wife of 40 years, Wendy. it’s a riveting portrait of leadership under unimaginable pressure – and a marriage under unfathomable circumstances.

Crude

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The story of lawsuit by tens of thousands of Ecuadorans against Chevron over contamination of the Ecuadorean Amazon.

Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Young adults become fascinated by the events of the three missing filmmakers in Maryland, so they decide to go into the same woods and find out what really happened.