Michael Kirk
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- November 6, 1947, Denver, Colorado, USA
- Movies
- 51
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.
Best-Known Movies
The Choice 2020: Trump vs. Biden
2020
League of Denial: The NFL’s Concussion Crisis
2013
The Choice 2024: Harris vs. Trump
2024
Putin's Road to War
2022
The Choice 2016
2016
Trump's Power & the Rule of Law
2025
Losing Iraq
2014
United States of Conspiracy
2020
The War Cabinet
2026
Danger! Women at Work
1943
Filmography
| 1943 | Danger! Women at Work | Tommy |
Directing, Writing & Producing
| 2026 | The War Cabinet | Director, Producer, Writer |
| 2025 | The Rise of RFK Jr. | Writer, Producer, Director |
| 2025 | Trump's Power & the Rule of Law | Director, Writer, Producer |
| 2025 | Trump's Comeback | Director, Writer, Producer |
| 2024 | The Choice 2024: Harris vs. Trump | Director, Writer, Producer |
| 2024 | Biden's Decision | Director, Producer |
| 2024 | Democracy on Trial | Director, Producer, Writer |
| 2023 | Clarence and Ginni Thomas: Politics, Power, and the Supreme Court | Director, Producer, Writer |
| 2023 | Putin and the Presidents | Writer, Producer, Director |
| 2022 | Lies, Politics and Democracy | Producer, Writer, Director |
| 2022 | Putin's Road to War | Director |
| 2022 | Pelosi's Power | Director, Writer, Producer |
| 2022 | Amerika nach 9/11 - Trauma Krieg und Spaltung | Writer, Director |
| 2021 | Taliban Takeover | Director |
| 2021 | America After 9/11 | Producer, Director, Writer |
| 2021 | Trump's American Carnage | Director, Producer |
| 2021 | President Biden | Writer, Director, Producer |
| 2020 | Supreme Revenge: Battle for the Court | Director, Writer, Producer |
| 2020 | The Choice 2020: Trump vs. Biden | Director, Producer, Writer |
| 2020 | United States of Conspiracy | Writer, Producer, Director |
| 2019 | Zero Tolerance: How Trump Turned Immigration into a Political Weapon | Writer, Director |
| 2018 | McCain | Writer, Director |
| 2017 | Bannon's War | Director, Writer |
| 2017 | Divided States of America | Director, Writer, Producer |
| 2017 | Frontline: President Trump | Director, Producer, Writer |
| 2016 | The Choice 2016 | Director, Writer, Producer |
| 2016 | The Secret History of ISIS | Director |
| 2016 | Netanyahu at War | Director |
| 2015 | Secrets, Politics and Torture | Producer, Writer, Director |
| 2015 | Gunned Down: The Power of the NRA | Director |
| 2014 | Losing Iraq | Writer, Director, Producer |
| 2013 | League of Denial: The NFL’s Concussion Crisis | Writer, Director |
| 2012 | The Choice 2012 | Director, Writer, Producer |
| 2011 | The Anthrax Files | Director |
| 2011 | Top Secret America - 9/11 to the Boston Bombings | Director, Writer |
| 2008 | The Choice 2008 | Writer, Producer, Director |
| 2008 | Bush’s War Part II | Director, Writer |
| 2008 | Bush’s War Part I | Director, Writer |
| 2007 | Cheney's Law | Director |
| 2007 | Endgame | Director, Producer, Writer |
| 2006 | The Dark Side | Director, Writer, Producer |
| 2005 | The Torture Question | Director, Writer |
| 2005 | Karl Rove: The Architect | Director |
| 2003 | The War Behind Closed Doors | Writer, Producer, Director |
| 2002 | The Man Who Knew | Director |
| 2002 | Misunderstood Minds | Director |
| 2002 | American Porn | Director, Writer |
| 2001 | The Clinton Years | Producer, Director |
| 2000 | The Choice 2000 | Director, Producer, Writer |
| 2000 | The Killer at Thurston High | Writer, Producer, Director |
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