Award-winning producer and documentary filmmaker Michael Kirk 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.

His most recent FRONTLINE productions include: the two-part special Bush's War (2008), the Peabody Award-winning Cheney's Law (2007), Endgame (2007), the Emmy Award-winning The Lost Year in Iraq (2006), Rumsfeld's War (2004), The Torture Question (2005) and The Dark Side (2006), which give an in-depth assessment of the war on terror and the state of the nation's military establishment; The Way the Music Died (2004), a behind-the-scenes report on the recording industry; From China with Love (2004), the story of a Chinese double agent who had a 20-year affair with her FBI handler; The War Behind Closed Doors (2003), an analysis of the political infighting that led to the war with Iraq; and The Man Who Knew (2002), which told the extraordinary saga of FBI Agent John O'Neill. Other recent productions include Target America (2001), Gunning for Saddam (2001), and American Porn (2002). Kirk's long relationship with FRONTLINE also includes the Emmy Award-winning The Navy Blues (1996), an investigation into the clash between the warrior culture and political correctness in the post-Tailhook Navy; the Peabody Award-winning Waco -- The Inside Story (1995), a behind-the-scenes look at the FBI siege of the Branch Davidian compound; and the Emmy Award-winning The Kevorkian File (1994), an in-depth examination of Jack Kevorkian's controversial record and cases. A senior producer for special projects for FRONTLINE, Kirk also owns a production company, the Kirk Documentary Group, in Brookline, Massachusetts.