Kirschenbaum wrote, directed and produced documentaries for several cable network series including Arts & Entertainment’s Ancient Mysteries and Mysteries of the Bible, Lifetime Television’s Intimate Portrait and New Attitudes series.
National Portrait Gallery | National Portrait Gallery (London) | National Portrait Gallery (United States) | National Portrait Gallery, London | portrait | Portrait miniature | National Portrait Gallery (United Kingdom) | Intimate relationship | A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer | Portrait Records | Portrait of Madame X | Portrait | Portrait of Clare | portrait miniature | Doug Moran National Portrait Prize | donor portrait | Arnolfini Portrait | self-portrait wearing a white feathered bonnet | Royal Society of Portrait Painters | Portrait of Tracy | Portrait of the Vendramin Family | Portrait of Pope Pius VII | Portrait of Narcissus | Portrait of Lozana: The Lusty Andalusian Woman | Portrait of Jason | Portrait of a Large Dog | Portrait of a Bookstore as an Old Man | National Portrait Gallery (Australia) | Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon |
Apology," (2003), "The Happiest Man in the World," (2007), the latter about Poppa Neutrino, the only man to cross the Atlantic in a raft made of trash, and "The Protest Singer: An Intimate Portrait of Pete Seeger," (2009). His most recent book is "The Ice Balloon," (2012), the account of the Swedish visionary aeronaut S.A. Andree's attempt, in 1897, to discover the North Pole by flying to it in a hydrogen balloon.
Among others, he trained Lawrence Shainberg, author of Ambivalent Zen, which discusses Kyudo's teachings and provides an intimate portrait of this Zen master.
The film, directed by Nicolas Philibert presents an intimate portrait of the ape, originally from Borneo, who has spent her most of her life in captivity.
Her non-fiction books include An Atlas of Irish History, James Connolly, Victor Gollancz: A Biography (winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize), The Pursuit of Reason: The Economist 1843–1993, The Faithful Tribe: An Intimate Portrait of the Loyal Institutions (shortlisted for Channel 4/The House Politico's Book of the Year) and Newspapermen: Hugh Cudlipp, Cecil King and the glory days of Fleet Street.