David Fanning
- Production
- May 25, 1946 · South Africa
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.
Known for
Filmography
- Documenting Police Use of Force · Executive producer
- Inside the Uvalde Response · Executive producer
- America's Dangerous Trucks · Executive producer
- After Uvalde: Guns, Grief & Texas Politics · Executive producer
- Plot to Overturn the Election · Executive producer
- Taliban Takeover · Executive producer
- America After 9/11 · Executive producer
- The Healthcare Divide · Executive producer
- President Biden · Executive producer
- Once Upon a Time in Iraq · Executive producer
- America's Great Divide: From Obama to Trump · Executive producer
- In the Age of AI · Producer, Director
- Predator on the Reservation · Executive producer
- Bitter Rivals: Iran and Saudi Arabia · Writer, Executive producer
- Mosul · Executive producer
- The Fish on My Plate · Writer
- Out of Gitmo · Executive producer
- Terror in Europe · Executive producer
- The Rise of ISIS · Executive producer
- To Catch A Trader · Producer
- Kind Hearted Woman · Executive producer
- Snitch · Executive producer
- Outlawed in Pakistan · Executive producer
- The Suicide Plan · Executive producer
- Dollars and Dentists · Executive producer
- Money, Power & Wall Street · Executive producer
- Nuclear Aftershocks · Executive producer
- Lost in Detention · Executive producer
- Facing Death · Executive producer
- The Dancing Boys of Afghanistan · Executive producer
- The Released · Executive producer
- The Dark Side · Executive producer
- The Age of AIDS · Executive producer
- The Tank Man · Executive producer
- The New Asylums · Executive producer
- Beyond Baghdad · Executive producer
- Burden of Innocence · Executive producer
- Speaking of Sex · Co-producer
- The Killer at Thurston High · Executive producer
- Seven Days in Bensonhurst · Executive producer
- War on Nicaragua · Executive producer
- Hostage in Iran · Executive producer
- Frontline · Creator
- Frank Terpil: Confessions of a Dangerous Man · Producer
- Against Wind and Tide: A Cuban Odyssey · Writer