David Fanning
Production
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.
Known for
Production40
movieDocumenting Police Use of Force
2024
Executive Producer
movieInside the Uvalde Response
2023
Executive Producer
movieAmerica's Dangerous Trucks
2023
Executive Producer
movieAfter Uvalde: Guns, Grief & Texas Politics
2023
Executive Producer
moviePlot to Overturn the Election
2022
Executive Producer
movieTaliban Takeover
2021
Executive Producer
movieAmerica After 9/11
2021
Executive Producer
movieThe Healthcare Divide
2021
Executive Producer
moviePresident Biden
2021
Executive Producer
movieOnce Upon a Time in Iraq
2020
Executive Producer
tvAmerica's Great Divide: From Obama to Trump
2020
Executive Producer
movieIn the Age of AI
2019
Producer
moviePredator on the Reservation
2019
Executive Producer
tvBitter Rivals: Iran and Saudi Arabia
2018
Executive Producer
movieMosul
2017
Executive Producer
movieOut of Gitmo
2017
Executive Producer
movieTerror in Europe
2016
Executive Producer
movieThe Rise of ISIS
2014
Executive Producer
movieTo Catch A Trader
2014
Producer
movieSnitch
2013
Executive Producer
movieOutlawed in Pakistan
2013
Executive Producer
movieThe Suicide Plan
2012
Executive Producer
Dollars and Dentists
2012
Executive Producer
tvMoney, Power & Wall Street
2012
Executive Producer
movieNuclear Aftershocks
2012
Executive Producer
movieLost in Detention
2011
Executive Producer
Facing Death
2010
Executive Producer
movieThe Dancing Boys of Afghanistan
2010
Executive Producer
movieThe Released
2009
Executive Producer
movieThe Age of AIDS
2006
Executive Producer
movieThe Tank Man
2006
Executive Producer
movieThe New Asylums
2005
Executive Producer
movieBeyond Baghdad
2004
Executive Producer
movieBurden of Innocence
2003
Executive Producer
movieSpeaking of Sex
2001
Co-Producer
movieThe Killer at Thurston High
2000
Executive Producer
Seven Days in Bensonhurst
1990
Executive Producer
movieWar on Nicaragua
1987
Executive Producer
movieHostage in Iran
1986
Executive Producer
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tvFrontline
1983
Creator
Crew1
tvFrontline
1983
Creator
Directing1
movieIn the Age of AI
2019
Director