David Fanning

Personal Info

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Production

Gender

Male

Birthday

1946-05-25 (79 years old)

Place of Birth

South Africa

David Fanning

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 investigati...

Production

2022

Plot to Overturn the Election

as Executive Producer

2021

America After 9/11

as Executive Producer

2021

Taliban Takeover

as Executive Producer

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Outlawed in Pakistan

as Executive Producer

2000

The Killer at Thurston High

as Executive Producer

2023

Inside the Uvalde Response

as Executive Producer

2012

Dollars and Dentists

as Executive Producer

2019

Predator on the Reservation

as Executive Producer

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Nuclear Aftershocks

as Executive Producer

2006

Frontline: The Age of AIDS

as Executive Producer

2014

The Rise of ISIS

as Executive Producer

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Beyond Baghdad

as Executive Producer

2017

Out of Gitmo

as Executive Producer

2017

Mosul

as Executive Producer

2011

Lost in Detention

as Executive Producer

2023

America's Dangerous Trucks

as Executive Producer

2005

The New Asylums

as Executive Producer

2009

The Released

as Executive Producer

2010

The Dancing Boys of Afghanistan

as Executive Producer

2016

Terror in Europe

as Executive Producer

2003

Burden of Innocence

as Executive Producer

2024

Documenting Police Use of Force

as Executive Producer

2021

The Healthcare Divide

as Executive Producer

2013

Snitch

as Executive Producer

2018

2020

2021

President Biden

as Executive Producer

2014

2020

Once Upon a Time in Iraq

as Executive Producer

1986

Hostage in Iran

as Executive Producer

1987

War on Nicaragua

as Executive Producer

2010

Facing Death

as Executive Producer

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