Mike Wiser (Production)
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Works
Trump's Comeback
FRONTLINE examines defining moments over Donald Trump’s life and career, his 2020 election loss, felony convictions and his historic comeback.
Release Date:2025-01-22
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:1
The Choice 2024: Harris vs. Trump
The documentary investigates the lives and characters of Kamala Harris and Donald Trump as they seek the presidency. In a historic election, those who know the candidates best reveal key moments that shape how they would lead America. Award-winning filmmaker Michael Kirk and his team sat down with Trump and Harris’ friends, advisors and critics, as well as authors, journalists and political insiders to present deeply reported narrative arcs of both candidates’ lives, going all the way back to their childhoods. What emerges in FRONTLINE's "The Choice 2024: Harris vs. Trump" is the story of two fighters: One seeking vindication and promising a return to greatness, and the other seeking to move beyond the past and promising a greater future.
Release Date:2024-09-24
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:6
Biden's Decision
The inside story of Biden’s rise to the presidency, and the personal and political forces that shaped him and led to his dramatic decision to step aside.
Release Date:2024-08-06
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Democracy on Trial
FRONTLINE investigates the roots of the criminal cases against former President Trump stemming from his 2020 election loss. With the presidential race for 2024 underway, veteran political filmmaker Michael Kirk and his team examine the House Jan. 6 committee’s evidence, the historic charges against Trump and the threat to democracy.
Release Date:2024-01-30
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:2
Clarence and Ginni Thomas: Politics, Power, and the Supreme Court
As controversy erupts around Clarence and Ginni Thomas, FRONTLINE tells the inside story of their path to power. This investigation from veteran filmmaker Michael Kirk and his team traces how race, power and controversy collide in the rise of the Supreme Court justice and his wife and how the couple has reshaped American law and politics.
Release Date:2023-05-09
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Putin and the Presidents
FRONTLINE investigates Russian President Vladimir Putin’s clashes with multiple American presidents as he’s tried to rebuild the Russian empire. Veteran filmmaker Michael Kirk (Putin’s Revenge, Putin’s Road to War) and his team trace the miscalculations and missteps of U.S. presidents over five administrations, culminating in Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.
Release Date:2023-01-31
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:2
Lies, Politics and Democracy
Frontline’s season premiere investigates American political leaders and choices they’ve made that have undermined and threatened democracy in the U.S. In a two-hour documentary special premiering ahead of the 2022 midterms, Frontline examines how officials fed the public lies about the 2020 presidential election and embraced rhetoric that led to political violence.
Release Date:2022-09-06
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:2
Pelosi's Power
An examination of the powerful and polarizing Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi, from veteran FRONTLINE filmmaker and chronicler of U.S. politics Michael Kirk and his team. Pelosi’s Power traces Pelosi’s life and legacy, how she has gained and wielded power across three decades, and how she has faced grave challenges to her leadership and to American democracy from Trump and his allies.
Release Date:2022-03-22
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:1
Taliban Takeover
The Taliban take over Afghanistan, and the threat of ISIS and Al Qaeda intensifies. On the ground, reporter Najibullah Quraishi (Leaving Afghanistan, Taliban Country) investigates uncertainty and fear among the Afghan people and revisits the lead-up to the U.S. defeat and the Taliban’s return.
Release Date:2021-10-12
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
America After 9/11
From veteran FRONTLINE filmmaker and chronicler of U.S. politics Michael Kirk and his team, this documentary traces the U.S. response to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks and the devastating consequences that unfolded across four presidencies. Drawing on both new interviews and those from the dozens of documentaries Kirk and his award-winning team made in the years after 9/11, this two-hour special offers an epic re-examination of the decisions that changed the world and transformed America. From the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq to the January 6 insurrection, America After 9/11 exposes the legacy of September 11 — and the ongoing challenge it poses for the president and the country.
Release Date:2021-09-07
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Trump's American Carnage
From his first days as president to his last, how Trump stoked division, violence and insurrection. FRONTLINE investigates Trump’s siege on his enemies, the media and even the leaders of his own party, who for years ignored the warning signs of what was to come.
Release Date:2021-01-26
Department:Production
Job:Producer
President Biden
FRONTLINE tells the story of how crisis and tragedy prepared Joe Biden to become America’s next president. Those who know him best describe the searing moments that shaped President-elect Biden and what those challenges reveal about how he will govern.
Release Date:2021-01-19
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:2
The Choice 2020: Trump vs. Biden
A look into what has shaped President Donald Trump and presidential candidate Joe Biden, where they came from and how they lead.
Release Date:2020-09-22
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:10
United States of Conspiracy
How trafficking in conspiracy theories went from the fringes of U.S. politics into the White House.
Release Date:2020-07-28
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:3
Frontline: America's Great Divide
A deep look into the growing divide in America from the Barack Obama era through the presidency of Donald Trump.
Release Date:2020-01-13
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:5
Zero Tolerance: How Trump Turned Immigration into a Political Weapon
"Zero Tolerance" - FRONTLINE investigates how President Trump turned immigration into a powerful political weapon that fueled division and violence. The documentary goes inside the efforts of three political insurgents to tap into populist anger, transform the Republican Party and crack down on immigration.
Release Date:2019-10-22
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
McCain
Senator John McCain's complicated relationship with President Trump and his own Republican party. A look at McCain's life and politics, from POW in Vietnam, to choosing Sarah Palin as running mate, to his dramatic vote against the GOP's health care bill.
Release Date:2018-04-17
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:1
Poutine contre les USA
Release Date:2018-01-16
Department:Creator
Job:Creator
Trump's Road to the White House
An investigation of how Donald Trump defied expectations to win the presidency -- and what it suggests about how he will govern.
Release Date:2017-01-24
Department:Writing
Job:Scenario Writer
Vote Count:3
Frontline: Divided States of America
Review the partisanship that gridlocked Washington and charged the 2016 presidential campaign.
Release Date:2017-01-17
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:1
Frontline: President Trump
The key moments that helped shape President-elect Donald Trump.
Release Date:2017-01-03
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:2
The Choice 2016
An interwoven investigative biography of U.S. presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump that draws on dozens of interviews from those who know them best—friends and family, advisers and adversaries—as well as authors, journalists and political insiders.
Release Date:2016-11-05
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:6
Secrets, Politics and Torture
“Secrets, Politics and Torture” unspools the dueling versions of history laid out by the CIA, which maintains that its now officially-shuttered program was effective in combating terrorism, and the massive Senate torture report released in December of 2014, which found that the program was brutal, mismanaged and — most importantly — didn’t work
Release Date:2015-05-19
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Losing Iraq (Frontline)
Examines the unfolding chaos in Iraq and how the U.S. is being pulled back into the conflict. Drawing on interviews with policymakers and military leaders, the film traces the U.S. role from the 2003 invasion to the current violence, showing how Iraq itself is coming undone, how we got here, what went wrong, and what happens next.
Release Date:2014-07-29
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:3
United States of Secrets (Part One): The Program
Last year Edward Snowden downloaded tens of thousands of top-secret documents from a highly secure government computer network. The revelations that followed touched off a fierce debate over the massive surveillance operations conducted by the National Security Agency. Through exclusive interviews with intelligence insiders, cabinet officials, and government whistle-blowers, the film reveals how the U.S. government came to monitor the communications of millions of Americans and to collect billions of records on ordinary people around the world.
Release Date:2014-05-13
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:5
Top Secret America - 9/11 to the Boston Bombings
Journalist Dana Priest traces the battle against terrorism in the United States, from Sept. 11 to the April 15, 2013 bombings at the Boston Marathon.
Release Date:2011-09-06
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Frontline
Since it began in 1983, Frontline has been airing public-affairs documentaries that explore a wide scope of the complex human experience. Frontline's goal is to extend the impact of the documentary beyond its initial broadcast by serving as a catalyst for change.
Release Date:1983-01-17
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Episode Count:3
Vote Count:41