---
name: "Peter Donahue"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/peter-donahue"
fi1m_id: "peter-donahue"
imdb_id: "nm1162538"
tmdb_id: 73992
roles: ["Cinematographer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T22:51:18.722010+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Peter Donahue

## Identity

Peter Donahue

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/peter-donahue
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** peter-donahue
- **IMDb ID:** nm1162538
- **TMDB ID:** 73992
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1162538/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/73992

Cinematographer.

## Details

- **Work:** Cinematographer
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1162538/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/73992

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*The Fog of War*](https://film.one/film/the-fog-of-war.md) (84)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Peter Donahue is a cinematographer. He grew up in Boston and studied still photography at art school before moving to New York, where he worked as a photographer’s assistant and then as a gaffer on independent films. He began shooting music videos and commercials, and met documentary director Errol Morris while working on a commercial; Morris later asked him to shoot *Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr.* (1999) and *The Fog of War* (2003).

Donahue’s subsequent credits include the features *Junebug* (2005), *Then She Found Me* (2007), *Gigantic* (2008) and *$5 a Day* (2008), the documentary *Prophet’s Prey* (2015), and an episode of the series *Billions* (2022). He lives in New York.

*Sources: imdb.com, moviemaker.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Fog of War* (2003), Fi1m 84, Director of Photography, Cinematography — [page](https://film.one/film/the-fog-of-war.md)

## Complete filmography (6)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Prophet's Prey* (2015), Director of Photography
- *Gigantic* (2008), Director of Photography
- *$5 a Day* (2008), Director of Photography
- *Then She Found Me* (2007), Director of Photography
- *Junebug* (2005), Director of Photography
- *The Fog of War* (2003), Director of Photography — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/the-fog-of-war.md)

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