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.

Directed

1. Frontline (1983) — Director
2. The Choice 2020: Trump vs. Biden (2020) — Director
3. League of Denial: The NFL’s Concussion Crisis (2013) — Director
4. The Choice 2024: Harris vs. Trump (2024) — Director
5. Putin's Road to War (2022) — Director
6. The Choice 2016 (2016) — Director
7. Trump's Power & the Rule of Law (2025) — Director
8. Losing Iraq (2014) — Director
9. United States of Conspiracy (2020) — Director
10. Lies, Politics and Democracy (2022) — Director
11. Democracy on Trial (2024) — Director
12. The Secret History of ISIS (2016) — Director
13. Frontline: President Trump (2017) — Director
14. Putin and the Presidents (2023) — Director
15. President Biden (2021) — Director
16. Trump's Comeback (2025) — Director
17. Secrets, Politics and Torture (2015) — Director
18. Pelosi's Power (2022) — Director
19. Netanyahu at War (2016) — Director
20. Divided States of America (2017) — Director
21. Misunderstood Minds (2002) — Director
22. Biden's Decision (2024) — Director
23. American Porn (2002) — Director
24. McCain (2018) — Director
25. The Dark Side (2006) — Director
26. Endgame (2007) — Director
27. Gunned Down: The Power of the NRA (2015) — Director
28. The War Cabinet (2026) — Director
29. United States of Secrets (2014) — Director
30. America After 9/11 (2021) — Director
31. Taliban Takeover (2021) — Director
32. Karl Rove: The Architect (2005) — Director
33. Trump's American Carnage (2021) — Director
34. The Killer at Thurston High (2000) — Director
35. Zero Tolerance: How Trump Turned Immigration into a Political Weapon (2019) — Director
36. The Man Who Knew (2002) — Director
37. Clarence and Ginni Thomas: Politics, Power, and the Supreme Court (2023) — Director
38. Cheney's Law (2007) — Director
39. L'homme qui murmure à l'oreille de Trump — Director
40. Trump président, une création fatale — Director

Also appeared in

1. A Very British Murder with Lucy Worsley (2013) — Self
2. Danger! Women at Work (1943) — Tommy