Peter Jennings

Peter Jennings

7/29/1938 – 8/7/2005Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Peter Charles Archibald Ewart Jennings CM was a Canadian-born American television journalist who served as the sole anchor of ABC World News Tonight from 1983 until his death from lung cancer in 2005. Jennings was one of the "Big Three" news anchormen, along with Tom Brokaw of NBC and Dan Rather of CBS, who dominated American evening network news from the early 1980s until his death in 2005, which closely followed the retirements from anchoring evening news programs of Brokaw in 2004 and Rather in 2005.

Filmography (45 titles)

Jane Elliott Against the World9.0Movie

Jane Elliott Against the World

Self (Archive Footage) · 2026

Murder in Monaco6.4Movie

Murder in Monaco

Self - News Anchor (archive footage) · 2025

Untold: Hope Solo vs. U.S. Soccer6.3Movie

Untold: Hope Solo vs. U.S. Soccer

Self (archive footage) · 2024

The White House Effect6.1Movie

The White House Effect

Self (archive footage) · 2024

People Magazine Investigates: Surviving a Serial Killer7.3Show

People Magazine Investigates: Surviving a Serial Killer

Self - News Anchor (archive footage) · 2024

Two Men at War5.0Movie

Two Men at War

Self (archive footage) · 2022

The Soul of America6.3Movie

The Soul of America

Self (archive footage) · 2020

The Devil Next Door7.2Show

The Devil Next Door

Self(archive footage) · 2019

Cola Wars7.8Movie

Cola Wars

Self (archive footage) · 2019

Reversing Roe7.3Movie

Reversing Roe

Self (archive footage) · 2018

King Bibi7.1Movie

King Bibi

Self (archive footage) · 2018

Explained7.5Show

Explained

Self (archive footage) · 2018

RBG7.5Movie

RBG

Self (archive footage) · 2018

The Nineties6.9Show

The Nineties

Self (archive footage) · 2017

The Reagan Show6.5Movie

The Reagan Show

Self (archive footage) · 2017

All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone7.4Movie

All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone

Self (archive footage) · 2016

The Best That Never Was6.9Movie

The Best That Never Was

Self (Archive Footage) · 2010

Dark Legacy5.6Movie

Dark Legacy

Self (archive footage) · 2009

Peter Jennings Reporting: UFOs - Seeing Is Believing7.5Movie

Peter Jennings Reporting: UFOs - Seeing Is Believing

2005

6.4Show

The Tony Danza Show

Self · 2004

American Dictators: Staging of the 2004 Presidential Election5.4Movie

American Dictators: Staging of the 2004 Presidential Election

Self (archive footage) · 2004

Sesame Street: What's the Name of That Song?Movie

Sesame Street: What's the Name of That Song?

Self (archive footage) · 2004

Journalists: Killed in the Line of DutyMovie

Journalists: Killed in the Line of Duty

Narrator (voice) · 2003

Peter Jennings Reporting: The Kennedy Assassination - Beyond Conspiracy6.8Movie

Peter Jennings Reporting: The Kennedy Assassination - Beyond Conspiracy

Host · 2003

JFK: Breaking the News10.0Movie

JFK: Breaking the News

Self (archive footage) · 2003

JFK II: The Bush Connection7.0Movie

JFK II: The Bush Connection

Self - ABC News Reporter · 2003

ABC's 50th Anniversary Celebration8.0Movie

ABC's 50th Anniversary Celebration

Self · 2003

Peter Jennings Reporting: The Search for Jesus8.5Movie

Peter Jennings Reporting: The Search for Jesus

Host · 2000

The Century: America's Time7.5Show

The Century: America's Time

Self - Presenter · 1999

The CenturyShow

The Century

Self - Narrator · 1999