David Fanning

producer • writer • director

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...

Born: May 25, 1946 in South Africa (age 79)

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Known For

6.3

Frontline

Movies & TV Credits

33 total credits across film and television

Title	Rating	Job	Role(s)	Year
Documenting Police Use of Force Movie	8.0	Production	Executive Producer	2024
America After 9/11 Movie	7.0	Production	Executive Producer	2021
The Healthcare Divide Movie	6.6	Production	Executive Producer	2021
President Biden Movie	—	Production	Executive Producer	2021
Taliban Takeover Movie	7.5	Production	Executive Producer	2021
Frontline: America's Great Divide Movie	7.4	Production	Executive Producer	2020
Once Upon a Time in Iraq Movie	7.6	Production	Executive Producer	2020
Predator on the Reservation Movie	7.0	Production	Executive Producer	2019
Bitter Rivals: Iran and Saudi Arabia Movie	7.2	Production	Executive Producer	2018
Bitter Rivals: Iran and Saudi Arabia TV Show	—	Production	Producer(2 Episodes)	2018
Out of Gitmo Movie	6.6	Production	Executive Producer	2017
Mosul Movie	8.2	Production	Executive Producer	2017
Terror in Europe Movie	7.7	Production	Executive Producer	2016
The Rise of ISIS Movie	7.4	Production	Executive Producer	2014
Snitch Movie	6.3	Production	Executive Producer	2013
Outlawed in Pakistan Short Film	7.8	Production	Executive Producer	2013
Dollars and Dentists Movie	7.4	Production	Executive Producer	2012
Lost in Detention Movie	7.3	Production	Executive Producer	2011
The Dancing Boys of Afghanistan Movie	7.3	Production	Executive Producer	2010
The Released Movie	7.2	Production	Executive Producer	2009
Frontline: The Age of AIDS Movie	9.0	Production	Executive Producer	2006
The New Asylums Movie	7.8	Production	Executive Producer	2005
Burden of Innocence Movie	8.1	Production	Executive Producer	2003
The Killer at Thurston High Movie	—	Production	Executive Producer	2000
Frontline TV Show	8.4	Creator	Creator	1983
Frank Terpil: Confessions of a Dangerous Man Movie	—	Production	Producer	1982
Inside the Uvalde Response Movie	7.4	Production	Executive Producer	—
Nuclear Aftershocks Movie	7.4	Production	Executive Producer	—
After Uvalde: Guns, Grief & Texas Politics Movie	7.4	Production	Executive Producer	—
America's Dangerous Trucks Movie	—	Production	Executive Producer	—
Hostage in Iran Movie	—	Production	Executive Producer	—
War on Nicaragua Movie	—	Production	Executive Producer	—
Facing Death Movie	—	Production	Executive Producer	—

David Fanning

Known For

Snitch

The Dancing Boys of Afghanistan

Frontline: America's Great Divide

Frontline

Movies & TV Credits