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
all 36
Movies 34
Producer 31
Writer 3
TV Shows 2
Director 1
Creator 1

Documenting Police Use of Force (2024)

Inside the Uvalde Response (2023)

America's Dangerous Trucks (2023)

After Uvalde: Guns, Grief & Texas Politics (2023)

Plot to Overturn the Election (2022)

Taliban Takeover (2021)

America After 9/11 (2021)

The Healthcare Divide (2021)

President Biden (2021)

Frontline: America's Great Divide (2020)

Predator on the Reservation (2019)

Mosul (2017)

Out of Gitmo (2017)

Terror in Europe (2016)

The Rise of ISIS (2014)

To Catch A Trader (2014)

Snitch (2013)

Dollars and Dentists (2012)

Lost in Detention (2011)

The Dancing Boys of Afghanistan (2010)

The Released (2009)

Frontline: The Age of AIDS (2006)

The New Asylums (2005)

Burden of Innocence (2003)

The Killer at Thurston High (2000)

Frontline (1983)

Bitter Rivals: Iran and Saudi Arabia

Outlawed in Pakistan

Beyond Baghdad

Nuclear Aftershocks
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GenderMale
Birthday1946-05-25 (78 years old)
Birth PlaceSouth Africa
CitizenshipsSouth Africa
AwardsEdward R. Murrow Lifetime Achievement Award, Edward R. Murrow Award, George Polk Award
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