Michael Kirk

Michael John Kirk is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and has produced more than 200 national television programs. A former Nieman Fellow in Journalism at Harvard University, Kirk was the senior producer of Frontline from the series' inception in 1983 until the fall of 1987. Then he created his own production company, the Kirk Documentary Group, based in Boston, Massachusetts, which has produced dozens of documentaries for Frontline and others, that focus on political, social, and cultural issues. Kirk has won every major award in broadcast journalism, including four Peabody Awards, three duPont-Columbia Awards, fourteen Emmy Awards, two George Polk Awards, and ten Writers Guild of America Awards.