Michael Kirk is a documentary filmmaker and partial creator of the PBS show Frontline where he worked as senior producer until 1987 Kirk owns a production company the Kirk Documentary Group in Brookline Massachusetts He is a former Nieman Fellow in Journalism at Harvard University He has produced such documentaries as Inside the Meltdown about the 2008 financial crisis Bushs War about the Iraq War under George W Bush and The Way the Music Died about the dire straits of the record industry