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David Fanning

David Fanning

Known For Production
Birthday May 25, 1946 (79)
Birthplace South Africa
Popularity 0.1 (history)
Updated Feb 11, 2025 (Update)
Entry Date Feb 11, 2025
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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 P ... eabody 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.

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Documenting Police Use of Force

Documenting Police Use of Force

2024

Executive Producer

Inside the Uvalde Response

Inside the Uvalde Response

2023

Executive Producer

America's Dangerous Trucks

America's Dangerous Trucks

2023

Executive Producer

Plot to Overturn the Election

Plot to Overturn the Election

2022

Executive Producer

Taliban Takeover

Taliban Takeover

2021

Executive Producer

President Biden

President Biden

2021

Executive Producer

The Healthcare Divide

The Healthcare Divide

2021

Executive Producer

America After 9/11

America After 9/11

2021

Executive Producer

Frontline: America's Great Divide

Frontline: America's Great Divide

2020

Executive Producer

Predator on the Reservation

Predator on the Reservation

2019

Executive Producer

Bitter Rivals: Iran and Saudi Arabia

Bitter Rivals: Iran and Saudi Arabia

2018

Executive Producer

Mosul

Mosul

2017

Executive Producer

Out of Gitmo

Out of Gitmo

2017

Executive Producer

Terror in Europe

Terror in Europe

2016

Executive Producer

The Rise of ISIS

The Rise of ISIS

2014

Executive Producer

Snitch

Snitch

2013

Executive Producer

Dollars and Dentists

Dollars and Dentists

2012

Executive Producer

Lost in Detention

Lost in Detention

2011

Executive Producer

The Dancing Boys of Afghanistan

The Dancing Boys of Afghanistan

2010

Executive Producer

The Released

The Released

2009

Executive Producer

Frontline: The Age of AIDS

Frontline: The Age of AIDS

2006

Executive Producer

The New Asylums

The New Asylums

2005

Executive Producer

Organization Category Movie
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