Michael Kirk
Biography
Michael Kirk is a documentary filmmaker and partial creator of the PBS show Frontline, where he worked as senior producer until 1987. Kirk owns a production company, the Kirk Documentary Group, in Brookline, Massachusetts. He is a former Nieman Fellow in Journalism at Harvard University. He has produced such documentaries as "Inside the Meltdown," about the 2008 financial crisis, "Bush's War," about the Iraq War under George W. Bush, and "The Way the Music Died," about the dire straits of the record industry.
Personal Details
Movies (46)
The Rise of RFK Jr.
Writer (Writing)
2025
Trump's Power & the Rule of Law
Director (Directing)
2025
Trump's Comeback
Director (Directing)
2025
The Choice 2024: Harris vs. Trump
Director (Directing)
2024
Biden's Decision
Director (Directing)
2024
Democracy on Trial
Director (Directing)
2024
Clarence and Ginni Thomas: Politics, Power, and the Supreme Court
Director (Directing)
2023
Putin and the Presidents
Director (Directing)
2023
Lies, Politics and Democracy
Director (Directing)
2022
Putin's Road to War
Director (Directing)
2022
Pelosi's Power
Director (Directing)
2022
Taliban Takeover
Director (Directing)
2021
America After 9/11
Director (Directing)
2021
Trump's American Carnage
Director (Directing)
2021
President Biden
Director (Directing)
2021
Supreme Revenge: Battle for the Court
Director (Directing)
2020
The Choice 2020: Trump vs. Biden
Director (Directing)
2020
United States of Conspiracy
Writer (Writing)
2020
Zero Tolerance: How Trump Turned Immigration into a Political Weapon
Director (Directing)
2019
Predator on the Reservation
Director (Directing)
2019
McCain
Director (Directing)
2018
Bannon's War
Director (Directing)
2017
Divided States of America
Director (Directing)
2017
Frontline: President Trump
Director (Directing)
2017
The Choice 2016
Director (Directing)
2016
The Secret History of ISIS
Director (Directing)
2016
Netanyahu at War
Director (Directing)
2016
Secrets, Politics and Torture
Director (Directing)
2015
Gunned Down: The Power of the NRA
Director (Directing)
2015
Losing Iraq
Director (Directing)
2014
League of Denial: The NFL’s Concussion Crisis
Director (Directing)
2013
The Choice 2012
Director (Directing)
2012
The Anthrax Files
Director (Directing)
2011
Top Secret America - 9/11 to the Boston Bombings
Director (Directing)
2011
The Choice 2008
Writer (Writing)
2008
Bush’s War Part II
Director (Directing)
2008
Bush’s War Part I
Director (Directing)
2008
Cheney's Law
Director (Directing)
2007
Endgame
Director (Directing)
2007
The Grudge 2
Co-Producer (Production)
2006
The Dark Side
Director (Directing)
2006
Karl Rove: The Architect
Director (Directing)
2005
The Grudge
Co-Producer (Production)
2004
The War Behind Closed Doors
Writer (Writing)
2003
The Man Who Knew
Director (Directing)
2002
Misunderstood Minds
Director (Directing)
2002
