David Fanning
Born: 1946-05-25 in South Africa
Known For: Production
Biography
David Fanning has been executive producer of Frontline , America’s only regularly scheduled investigative documentary series on television, since its first season in 1983. The series has won all the major awards for broadcast journalism, including 34 Emmys, 23 duPont-Columbia University Awards, 12 Peabody Awards, and 11 Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Awards. In 2002, the series was honored with an unprecedented third Gold Baton from duPont-Columbia for its post September 11th coverage, a series of seven hour-long documentaries on the origins and impact of terrorism. In 2003, “A Dangerous Business,” a Frontline / New York Times joint investigation of the cast-iron pipe making industry, won the Pulitzer Prize for public service. Fanning began his filmmaking career as a young journalist in South Africa. He came to the US in 1973 and began producing and directing local and national documentaries for KOCE, a public television station in California. In 1977, Fanning came to WGBH Boston to start the international documentary series WORLD.
Filmography
2024
- Documenting Police Use of Force ... (Executive Producer)
2023
- Inside the Uvalde Response ... (Executive Producer)
- After Uvalde: Guns, Grief & Texas Politics ... (Executive Producer)
- America's Dangerous Trucks ... (Executive Producer)
2022
- Plot to Overturn the Election ... (Executive Producer)
2021
- Taliban Takeover ... (Executive Producer)
- President Biden ... (Executive Producer)
- The Healthcare Divide ... (Executive Producer)
- America After 9/11 ... (Executive Producer)
2020
- Once Upon a Time in Iraq ... (Executive Producer)
- America's Great Divide: From Obama to Trump ... (Executive Producer)
2019
- Frontline: In the Age of AI ... (Producer)
- Predator on the Reservation ... (Executive Producer)
2018
- Bitter Rivals: Iran and Saudi Arabia ... (Writer)
2017
- Mosul ... (Executive Producer)
- Out of Gitmo ... (Executive Producer)
- The Fish on My Plate ... (Writer)
2016
- Terror in Europe ... (Executive Producer)
2014
- The Rise of ISIS ... (Executive Producer)
- To Catch A Trader ... (Producer)
2013
- Snitch ... (Executive Producer)
- Outlawed in Pakistan ... (Executive Producer)
2012
- Nuclear Aftershocks ... (Executive Producer)
- The Suicide Plan ... (Executive Producer)
- Money, Power & Wall Street ... (Executive Producer)
- Dollars and Dentists ... (Executive Producer)
2011
- Lost in Detention ... (Executive Producer)
2010
- The Dancing Boys of Afghanistan ... (Executive Producer)
- Facing Death ... (Executive Producer)
2009
- The Released ... (Executive Producer)
2006
- Frontline: The Age of AIDS ... (Executive Producer)
2005
- The New Asylums ... (Executive Producer)
2003
- Burden of Innocence ... (Executive Producer)
2000
- The Killer at Thurston High ... (Executive Producer)
1987
- War on Nicaragua ... (Executive Producer)
1986
- Hostage in Iran ... (Executive Producer)
1983
- Frontline ... (Creator)
1982
- Frank Terpil: Confessions of a Dangerous Man ... (Producer)