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David Fanning
South Africa
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 ser…
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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.
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2024
Documenting Police Use of Force
Movie Executive Producer
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2023
Inside the Uvalde Response
Movie Executive Producer
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2023
America's Dangerous Trucks
Movie Executive Producer
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2023
After Uvalde: Guns, Grief & Texas Politics
Movie Executive Producer
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2022
Plot to Overturn the Election
Movie Executive Producer
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2021
Taliban Takeover
Movie Executive Producer
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2021
America After 9/11
Movie Executive Producer
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2021
The Healthcare Divide
Movie Executive Producer
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2021
President Biden
Movie Executive Producer
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2020
Once Upon a Time in Iraq
Movie Executive Producer
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2020
America's Great Divide: From Obama to Trump
TV show Executive Producer
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2019
In the Age of AI
Movie Producer
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2019
Predator on the Reservation
Movie Executive Producer
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2018
Bitter Rivals: Iran and Saudi Arabia
TV show Writer
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2017
Mosul
Movie Executive Producer
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2017
The Fish on My Plate
Movie Writer
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2017
Out of Gitmo
Movie Executive Producer
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2016
Terror in Europe
Movie Executive Producer
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2014
The Rise of ISIS
Movie Executive Producer
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2014
To Catch A Trader
Movie Producer
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2013
Kind Hearted Woman
TV show Executive Producer
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2013
Snitch
Movie Executive Producer
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2013
Outlawed in Pakistan
Movie Executive Producer
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2012
The Suicide Plan
Movie Executive Producer
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2012
Dollars and Dentists
Movie Executive Producer
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2012
Money, Power & Wall Street
TV show Executive Producer
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2012
Nuclear Aftershocks
Movie Executive Producer
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2011
Lost in Detention
Movie Executive Producer
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2010
Facing Death
Movie Executive Producer
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2010
The Dancing Boys of Afghanistan
Movie Executive Producer
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2009
The Released
Movie Executive Producer
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2006
The Age of AIDS
Movie Executive Producer
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2006
The Tank Man
Movie Executive Producer
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2005
The New Asylums
Movie Executive Producer
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2004
Beyond Baghdad
Movie Executive Producer
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2003
Burden of Innocence
Movie Executive Producer
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2001
Speaking of Sex
Movie Co-Producer
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2000
The Killer at Thurston High
Movie Executive Producer
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1990
Seven Days in Bensonhurst
Movie Executive Producer
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1987
War on Nicaragua
Movie Executive Producer
