Peter Jennings
Acting
Born 1938-07-29 · Toronto, 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
Jane Elliott Against the World
Jan 27, 2026
Murder in Monaco
Dec 17, 2025
Untold: Hope Solo vs. U.S. Soccer
Sep 2, 2024
The White House Effect
Aug 31, 2024
Two Men at War
Nov 11, 2022
The Soul of America
Oct 22, 2020
Cola Wars
Aug 18, 2019
Reversing Roe
Sep 1, 2018
King Bibi
Aug 5, 2018
RBG
May 4, 2018
The Reagan Show
Apr 22, 2017
All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone
Nov 4, 2016
Dark Legacy
Jan 1, 2009
Peter Jennings Reporting: UFOs - Seeing Is Believing
Oct 9, 2005
American Dictators: Staging of the 2004 Presidential Election
Aug 4, 2004
Sesame Street: What's the Name of That Song?
Mar 6, 2004
Journalists: Killed in the Line of Duty
Nov 25, 2003
Peter Jennings Reporting: The Kennedy Assassination - Beyond Conspiracy
Nov 22, 2003
JFK: Breaking the News
Nov 19, 2003
JFK II: The Bush Connection
Sep 9, 2003
ABC's 50th Anniversary Celebration
May 19, 2003
Peter Jennings Reporting: The Search for Jesus
Dec 31, 2000
Hiroshima: Why the Bomb Was Dropped
Jul 27, 1995
The Last Party
Aug 27, 1993
Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media
Nov 6, 1992
The Missiles of October: What the World Didn't Know
Oct 17, 1992
A Line In The Sand War Or Peace With Peter Jennings
Jan 14, 1991
In Winter
Jan 1, 1967