Television Documentary Production & Writing
OSH Productions makes television documentaries about American politics, national security and business.
About the Company
OSH Productions develops, reports, writes and produces documentaries on American politics, national security, business and institutional accountability.
The company is led by Mike Wiser, who spent more than two decades writing and producing films for PBS FRONTLINE with the Kirk Documentary Group.
Those films have won Emmy, Peabody, Alfred I. duPont-Columbia, George Polk and Writers Guild of America awards.
Producer and writer, for PBS FRONTLINE and the Kirk Documentary Group. Winner of the Peabody Award and the Emmy Award for Outstanding Politics and Government Documentary.
Services
01 · Script & Structure
Structuring and writing one-hour and multi-hour investigative documentaries that combine archival material, original reporting and firsthand accounts.
02 · Editorial
Overseeing a film from the first reporting through field production, the edit room and fact-checking.
03 · Reporting
Interviews with White House officials, cabinet secretaries, federal judges, military leaders and political strategists.
Broadcast Work & Interviews
Documentaries Mike Wiser has written and produced, and interviews he conducted for PBS FRONTLINE.
The advisers and officials behind President Donald Trump’s use of U.S. military power in his second term, featuring interviews with Steve Bannon, Eliot Cohen and Gen. Peter Chiarelli.
Production CompanyKirk Documentary Group
Writers Guild of America Award Nominee
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s political evolution and his alliance with Donald Trump, with interviews including Del Bigtree, Calley Means, Dr. Paul Offit and senior public health officials.
Production CompanyKirk Documentary Group
duPont-Columbia Award Finalist
The roots of the federal criminal case against Donald Trump over his 2020 election loss, with firsthand accounts from Jan. 6 committee witnesses including Brad Raffensperger, Gabriel Sterling and Rusty Bowers.
Production CompanyKirk Documentary Group
Emmy Award · Peabody Award · WGA Nominee
The lives of Justice Clarence Thomas and Ginni Thomas, and how race, ideology and political ambition shaped a couple that has reshaped American law and politics.
Production CompanyKirk Documentary Group
Two Emmy Awards · Peabody · duPont-Columbia · WGA Award
The inside story of how the U.S. government built a secret surveillance program after Sept. 11.
Production CompanyKirk Documentary Group
Peabody Award · George Polk Award · WGA Award
The science linking football to the brain disease CTE, and the NFL’s decades-long response.
Production CompanyKirk Documentary Group
Recorded April 3, 2025, for Trump’s Power & the Rule of Law and published through FRONTLINE’s Transparency Project. Bannon lays out his view of presidential power and the courts.
Recorded for Putin and the Presidents. The journalist and Puck founding partner explains Vladimir Putin’s worldview, his grievances against Washington and the road to the invasion of Ukraine.
Recorded for Putin and the Presidents. Then–Secretary of State Antony Blinken on U.S.-Russia relations and the U.S. response to the war in Ukraine.
Recorded for Lies, Politics and Democracy. The former federal appeals judge describes advising Vice President Mike Pence’s team before Jan. 6, 2021.
Complete List
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Principal
Documentary writer, producer and interviewer.
Biography
Mike Wiser has written and produced documentaries for PBS FRONTLINE for more than 20 years, working with the Kirk Documentary Group on more than 70 films.
His reporting has covered American politics, the presidency, the Supreme Court, national security, foreign affairs, criminal justice, sports and the financial crisis. Through OSH Productions, he writes, produces and provides editorial direction for long-form television documentaries.
He has interviewed dozens of figures in government, law and journalism, among them then–Secretary of State Antony Blinken, former White House chief of staff Ron Klain, former national security adviser John Bolton, Steve Bannon, and former federal judge J. Michael Luttig, in Luttig’s first television interview.
His films have won Emmy, Peabody, Alfred I. duPont-Columbia, George Polk and Writers Guild of America awards.
He is a graduate of Middlebury College and Harvard Law School.
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