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Michael Kirk was born on 1947 in Denver, Colorado, U.S., is a Documentary filmmaker. Discover Michael Kirk's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 77 years old?

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Occupation Film director, writer, producer
Age 77 years old
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Born 1947
Birthday 1947
Birthplace Denver, Colorado, U.S.
Nationality United States

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1971

He graduated from the University of Idaho in 1971 with a degree in communications.

The university named an award after Kirk, "The Michael Kirk Award", given annually to a student in broadcast journalism.

1983

A key contributor to PBS's Frontline since its inception, Kirk joined Frontline as senior producer for its 1983 national debut on PBS.

1984

Kirk has produced more than 200 national television programs since 1984.

He is a former Nieman Fellow in Journalism at Harvard University.

Kirk was born in Denver and later moved to Boise, Idaho where he grew up and attended Bishop Kelly High School.

Between 1984 and 2020, Kirk has received over 15 Emmy Awards and 12 Writers Guild of America Awards.

1987

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

Kirk founded and currently owns the production company, the Kirk Documentary Group, in Brookline, Massachusetts, which has produced dozens of award-winning documentaries, both for Frontline and through his company, that focus on political, social and cultural issues.

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

2000

Kirk was inducted into the UI Alumni Hall of Fame in 2000 and given an Honorary Degree in 2013.

Kirk was inducted into the University of Idaho Alumni Hall of Fame in 2000.

He is a former Nieman Fellow in Journalism at Harvard University.

2008

He has produced such documentaries as Inside the Meltdown, about the 2008 financial crisis; Bush's War (Winner of an Emmy Award and a WGA Award ), about the Iraq War under George W. Bush; and The Way the Music Died, about the dire straits of the record industry.

2013

In 2013, Kirk won a George Polk Award for League of Denial: The NFL's concussion Crisis and the same award in 2012 for the film, Money, Power and Wall Street.

Both films also won two Peabody Awards.

2016

Some of his award-winning documentaries include Money, Power and Wall Street (winner of an Emmy Award), League of Denial: The NFL's Concussion Crisis (winner of a Peabody Award and a George Polk Award ), United States of Secrets (winner of two Emmy Awards, a WGA Award, a Peabody Award and a duPont-Columbia Award ), Gunned Down: The Power of the NRA (winner of an Emmy Award), The Choice 2016 (winner of an Emmy Award), Trump's Takeover and Putin's Revenge (winner of a duPont-Columbia Gold Baton).

2019

Recent award-winning documentaries include Kirk's 2019 film Putin's Revenge, which won a Gold Baton from the duPont-Columbia Awards with Frontline, PBS for that year, Trump's Takeover, for which Kirk and Mike Wiser, then won a Writers Guild Award in the Documentary Scripts – Current Events category, 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.

2020

Kirk has made upwards of 20 films on the Obama and Trump presidencies including The Choice 2020: Trump vs. Biden, Supreme Revenge, Zero Tolerance, Trump's Takeover, Divided States of America, The Choice 2016, United States of Secrets, Putin's Revenge, The Choice 2012, The Warning and many others.

In a retrospective on Kirk's body of work, Philip Kennicott described Kirk's documentary style in The Washington Post as "rigorous, even obsessive about getting the chronology straight" and "if newspapers do the rough draft of history, Kirk does a very smooth and fascinating second draft."

In The Los Angeles Times, television critic Robert Lloyd called Kirk's multi-award-winning film United States of Secrets "nuanced" and "compelling", while Variety 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."

Kirk has produced more than 200 national television programs over the course of his career.