Michael Kirk
Vladimir Putin’s grudge with Hillary Clinton
When Vladimir Putin first took control of Russia, Bill Clinton was the US president. Frontline filmmaker Mike Kirk tells how Putin came to consider the United States an existential threat, how he consolidated his power to confront the US, and why launching a campaign to disrupt the 2016 US presidential election would not have been out of character.
New Documentary from PBS Shows the Brewing of a Debt Limit Battle
It is less than a week until President Barack Obama’s second inauguration, and already a political fight is shaping up that could potentially define the President’s second term. At a press conference yesterday, President Obama demanded that Congress increase the current authorized borrowing limit of $16.4 trillion, in order for the government to avoid defaulting […]
The Choice 2012: Incumbent or Challenger?
In just four weeks, voters will decide between two very different presidential candidates. An exhaustive new FRONTLINE documentary, produced by our partner WGBH in Boston, profiles the personal and political lives of the two men vying for the presidency: Mitt Romney and Barack Obama. The Choice 2012 airs on PBS on Tuesday October 9 and […]
Michael Kirk on “Money, Power and Wall Street”
Three years after America’s largest financial collapse since the Great Depression, the country is still recovering. Some banks have received huge bailouts, but countless Americans are still struggling to get back on their feet. A new four-hour documentary, “Money, Power and Wall Street” investigates what has been done (and not done) to secure America’s financial […]
Was Bruce Ivins really behind the anthrax attacks after 9/11?
Dr. Claire Fraser-Ligget, whose lab did work for the FBI in this investigation, and Michael Kirk, producer of the new PBS Frontline documentary “The Anthrax Files,” re-examine this closed case to see whether FBI indicted the right suspect.