‘Paradise Lost’ and ‘Paradise Lost 2’ on HBO Tonight and Tomorrow

When Jason Baldwin, Damien Echols and Jessie Misskelly were released from prison on 19 August, Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky were there. The filmmakers have been chronicling the story of the West Memphis 3 since 1993, when they were arrested for murdering three little boys in Arkansas. Following a set of sensational trials, all three teenagers were convicted and imprisoned, with Echols sent to death row. The filmmakers chronicled their ordeals, the hectic press coverage, and also the reactions of community members, including the parents of the dead children as well as the parents of the boys accused, in two documentaries. Now, as Berlinger and Sinofsky set to work on the “new ending” of their third documentary in the series, Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory, set to premiere on HBO in 2012 (and word is out that Sheila Nevins wants a fourth film), the first two are re-airing: Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills (1996) on 29 August and Paradise Lost 2: Revelations (2000) on 30 August.