Michael Kirk is a documentary filmmaker and partial creator[1] of the PBS show Frontline, where he worked as senior producer until 1987.

In 1987, he left Frontline to produce films through his own independent company, the Kirk Documentary Group, located in Brookline, Massachusetts.

[citation needed] Kirk's 2019 film Putin's Revenge won a Gold Baton from the duPont-Columbia Awards with Frontline, PBS for that year.

[11] Kirk and Mike Wiser then won a Writers Guild Award in the Documentary Scripts – Current Events category, for Trump's Takeover, and consecutive Emmy wins in 2015, 2016, and 2017 for United States of Secrets, Gunned Down: The Power of the NRA, and The Choice 2016.

"[19] In The Los Angeles Times, television critic Robert Lloyd called Kirk's multi-award-winning film United States of Secrets "nuanced" and "compelling",[20] while Variety's Sonia Saraiya wrote that his four-hour mini-series Divided States of America "may well be the most important piece of journalism about this tumultuous era of identity politics and populist backlash.