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David Fanning
Producer, Director, Writer, Additional CreditsBorn May 25, 1946 (79 years)
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.
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.
David Fanning Filmography
| 2024 | Documenting Police Use of Force · as Executive Producer |
| 2023 | Inside the Uvalde Response · as Executive Producer |
| 2023 | America's Dangerous Trucks · as Executive Producer |
| 2023 | After Uvalde: Guns, Grief & Texas Politics · as Executive Producer |
| 2022 | Plot to Overturn the Election · as Executive Producer |
| 2021 | Taliban Takeover · as Executive Producer |
| 2021 | America After 9/11 · as Executive Producer |
| 2021 | The Healthcare Divide · as Executive Producer |
| 2020 | Once Upon a Time in Iraq · as Executive Producer |
| 2020 | America's Great Divide: From Obama to Trump (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2019 | |
| 2019 | Predator on the Reservation · as Executive Producer |
| 2018 | Bitter Rivals: Iran and Saudi Arabia (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2017 | Out of Gitmo · as Executive Producer |
| 2016 | Terror in Europe · as Executive Producer |
| 2014 | The Rise of ISIS · as Executive Producer |
| 2014 | |
| 2013 | Snitch · as Executive Producer |
| 2012 | Dollars and Dentists · as Executive Producer |
| 2011 | Lost in Detention · as Executive Producer |
| 2010 | Facing Death · as Executive Producer |
| 2010 | God in America: How Religious Liberty Shaped America (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2010 | The Dancing Boys of Afghanistan · as Executive Producer |
| 2009 | The Released · as Executive Producer |
| 2006 | Frontline: The Age of AIDS · as Executive Producer |
| 2002 | Frontline World (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2001 | Speaking of Sex · as Co-Producer |
| 1997 | Hitchhiking Vietnam: Letters from the Trail · as Executive Producer |
| 1996 | The Gulf War (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 1988 | American Experience (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 1988 | Ring of Fire: An Indonesian Odyssey (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 1987 | Dispatches (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 1983 | Frontline (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 1980 | Death of a Princess · as Executive Producer |
| 1978 | Blacks Britannica · as Executive Producer |
| 1974 | NOVA (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2005 | The Colbert Report (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 1988 | Ring of Fire: An Indonesian Odyssey (TV Series) |
| 1983 | Frontline (TV Series) |
| 2018 | Bitter Rivals: Iran and Saudi Arabia (TV Series) |
| 1983 | Frontline (TV Series) |
| 2011 | The Interrupters · as Executive Producer: Frontline |
| 2004 | This World (TV Series) · as Executive Producer: Wgbh |
| 2002 | NOW (TV Series) · as Executive Producer: Frontline/world |
| 2001 | Much Ado About Something · as Executive Producer: Frontline |
| 1980 | Death of a Princess · as Written By |
| 1979 | Yes or No, Jean-Guy Moreau · as Executive Producer: Wgbh |