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Best Documentary Feature Nominees

2023

 
20 Days In Mariupol (2023)
Bobi Wine: The People's President (2022)
The Eternal Memory (2023)
Four Daughters (2023)
To Kill a Tiger (2022)

2022

 
A House Made of Splinters (2022)
All That Breathes (2022)
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (2022)
Fire of Love (2022)
Navalny (2022)

2021

 
Ascension (2021)
Attica (2021)
Flee (2021)
Summer of Soul (2021)
Writing With Fire (2021)

2020

 
Collective (2019)
Crip Camp (2020)
The Mole Agent (2020)
My Octopus Teacher (2020)
Time (2020)

2019

 
American Factory (2019)
For Sama (2019)
Honeyland (2019)
The Cave (2019)
The Edge of Democracy (2019)

2018

 
Free Solo (2018)
Hale County This Morning, This Evening (2018)
Minding the Gap (2018)
Of Fathers and Sons (2017)
RBG (2018)

2017

 
Abacus: Small Enough To Jail (2016)
Faces Places (2017)
Icarus (2017)
Last Men In Aleppo (2017)
Strong Island (2017)

2016

 
13TH (2016)
Fire At Sea (2016)
I Am Not Your Negro (2016)
Life, Animated (2016)
O.J.: Made In America (2016)

2015

 
Raw: The Amy Winehouse Story (2015)
Cartel Land (2015)
The Look of Silence (2014)
What Happened, Miss Simone? (2015)
Winter On Fire: Ukraine's Fight For Freedom (2015)

2014

 
Citizenfour (2014)
Finding Vivian Maier (2013)
Last Days In Vietnam (2014)
The Salt of the Earth (2014)
Virunga (2014)

2013

 
Twenty Feet From Stardom (2013)
Cutie and the Boxer (2013)
Dirty Wars (2013)
The Act of Killing (2012)
The Square (2013)

2012

 
5 Broken Cameras (2011)
How To Survive a Plague (2012)
The Gatekeepers (2012)
The Invisible War (2012)
Searching For Sugar Man (2012)

2011

 
Hell and Back Again (2011)
If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front (2011)
Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory (2011)
Pina (2011)
Undefeated (2011)

2010

 
Exit Through the Gift Shop (2010)
GasLand (2010)
Inside Job (2010)
Restrepo (2010)
Waste Land (2010)

2009

 
Burma VJ (2008)
Food, Inc. (2008)
The Cove (2009)
The Most Dangerous Man In America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers (2009)
Which Way Home (2009)

2008

 
Encounters At the End of the World (2007)
Man On Wire (2008)
The Betrayal - Nerakhoon (2008)
The Garden (2008)
Trouble the Water (2008)

2007

 
No End In Sight (2007)
Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience (2007)
Sicko (2007)
Taxi To the Dark Side (2007)
War Dance (2007)

2006

 
An Inconvenient Truth (2006)
Deliver Us From Evil (2006)
Iraq In Fragments (2006)
Jesus Camp (2006)
My Country, My Country (2006)

2005

 
Darwin's Nightmare (2004)
Enron: The Smartest Guys In the Room (2005)
March of the Penguins (2005)
Murderball (2005)
Street Fight (2005)

2004

 
Born Into Brothels (2004)
Super Size Me (2004)
The Story of the Weeping Camel (2003)
Tupac: Resurrection (2003)
Twist of Faith (2004)

2003

 
Cuban Rafters (2002)
Capturing the Friedmans (2003)
My Architect (2003)
The Fog of War (2003)
The Weather Underground (2002)

2002

 
Bowling For Columbine (2002)
Daughter From Danang (2002)
Prisoner of Paradise (2002)
Spellbound (2002)
Winged Migration (2001)

2001

 
Children Underground (2001)
Lalee's Kin: The Legacy of Cotton (2001)
Murder On a Sunday Morning (2001)
Promises (2001)
War Photographer (2001)

2000

 
Into the Arms of Strangers (2000)
Legacy (2000)
Long Night's Journey Into Day (2000)
Scottsboro: An American Tragedy (2000)
Sound and Fury (2000)

1999

 
Buena Vista Social Club (1999)
Genghis Blues (1999)
On the Ropes (1999)
One Day In September (1999)
Speaking In Strings (1999)

1998

 
Dancemaker (1998)
Lenny Bruce: Swear To Tell the Truth (1998)
Regret To Inform (1998)
The Farm: Angola, Usa (1998)
The Last Days (1998)

1997

 
4 Little Girls (1997)
Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life (1997)
Colors Straight Up (1997)
The Long Way Home (1997)
Waco: The Rules of Engagement (1997)

1996

 
Mandela (1996)
Suzanne Farrell: Elusive Muse (1996)
Tell the Truth and Run: George Seldes and the American Press (1996)
The Line King: The Al Hirschfeld Story (1996)
When We Were Kings (1996)

1995

 
Anne Frank Remembered (1995)
Hank Aaron: Chasing the Dream (1995)
Small Wonders (1995)
The American Experience: The Battle Over Citizen Kane (1996)
Troublesome Creek: A Midwestern (1995)

1994

 
A Great Day In Harlem (1994)
American Experience (1988)
Complaints of a Dutiful Daughter (1994)
Freedom On My Mind (1994)
Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision (1994)

1993

 
Changing Our Minds: The Story of Dr. Evelyn Hooker (1992)
Fires of Kuwait (1992)
Liberators: Fighting On Two Fronts In World War II (1992)
Music For the Movies: Bernard Herrmann (1992)
The Panama Deception (1992)

1992

 
Death On the Job (1991)
Doing Time: Life Inside the Big House (1991)
In the Shadow of the Stars (1991)
The Restless Conscience: Resistance To Hitler Within Germany 1933-1945 (1992)
Wild By Law (1991)

1991

 
American Dream (1990)
Berkeley In the Sixties (1990)
Building Bombs (1991)
Forever Activists: Stories From the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade (1990)
Waldo Salt: A Screenwriter's Journey (1990)

1990

 
Adam Clayton Powell (1989)
Common Threads: Stories From the Quilt (1989)
Crack USA: County Under Siege (1989)
For All Mankind (1989)
Super Chief: The Life and Legacy of Earl Warren (1989)

1989

 
Hotel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie (1988)
Let's Get Lost (1988)
Promises To Keep (1988)
The Cry of Reason: Beyers Naude - An Afrikaner Speaks Out (1988)
Who Killed Vincent Chin? (1987)

1988

 
A Stitch For Time (1987)
Eyes On the Prize II (1987)
Hellfire: A Journey From Hiroshima (1986)
The American Experience: Radio Bikini (1988)
The Ten-Year Lunch (1987)

1987

 
Artie Shaw: Time Is All You've Got (1985)
Down and Out In America (1986)
Chile: When Will It End? (1986)
Isaac In America: A Journey With Isaac Bashevis Singer (1986)
Witness To Apartheid (1986)

1986

 
Broken Rainbow (1985)
Soldiers In Hiding (1985)
Las Madres: The Mothers of Plaza de Mayo (1985)
The Statue of Liberty (1985)
Unfinished Business: The Japanese-American Internment Cases (1986)

1985

 
High Schools (1983)
In the Name of the People (1985)
Marlene: An Astonishing Visit (1984)
Streetwise (1984)
The Times of Harvey Milk (1984)

1984

 
Children of Darkness (1983)
First Contact (1982)
He Makes Me Feel Like Dancin' (1983)
Seeing Red: Stories of American Communists (1983)
The Profession of Arms (1983)

1983

 
A Portrait of Giselle (1982)
After the Axe (1981)
Ben's Mill (1982)
In Our Water (1982)
The Fifth Estate (1975)

1982

 
Against Wind and Tide: A Cuban Odyssey (1981)
Brooklyn Bridge (1981)
Eight Minutes To Midnight: A Portrait of Dr. Helen Caldicott (1981)
El Salvador: Another Vietnam (1981)
Genocide (1982)

1981

 
Agee (1980)
From Mao To Mozart: Isaac Stern In China (1981)
Front Line (1979)
The Day After Trinity (1981)
The Yellow Star (1980)

1980

 
Best Boy (1979)
Generation On the Wind (1979)
Going the Distance (1979)
The Killing Ground (1979)
The War At Home (1979)

1979

 
Mysterious Castles of Clay (1978)
Raoni (1978)
Scared Straight! (1978)
The Lovers' Wind (1978)
With Babies and Banners: Story of the Women's Emergency Brigade (1979)

1978

 
High Grass Circus (1977)
Homage To Chagall: The Colours of Love (1977)
The Children of Theatre Street (1977)
Union Maids (1976)
Who Are the Debolts? and Where Did They Get Nineteen Kids? (1977)

1977

 
Harlan County U.S.A. (1976)
Hollywood On Trial (1976)
Off the Edge (1976)
People of the Wind (1976)
Volcano (1976)

1976

 
Fighting For Our Lives (1975)
The California Reich (1975)
The Incredible Machine (1975)
The Man Who Skied Down Everest (1975)
The Other Half of the Sky: A China Memoir (1975)

1975

 
Antonia: A Portrait of the Woman (1974)
Hearts and Minds (1974)
The Eighty-First Blow (1974)
The Challenge of Greatness (1977)
The Wild and the Brave (1974)

1974

 
Always a New Beginning (1974)
Battle of Berlin (1973)
Journey To the Outer Limits (1973)
The Great American Cowboy (1973)
Walls of Fire (1971)

1973

 
Instinct For Survival (1972)
Malcolm X (1972)
Manson and Squeaky Fromme (1973)
Marjoe (1972)
Black Liberation (1972)

1972

 
Alaska Wilderness Lake (1971)
On Any Sunday (1971)
The Hellstrom Chronicle (1971)
The Ra Expeditions (1972)
The Sorrow and the Pity (1969)

1971

 
Chariots of the Gods (1970)
Jack Johnson, the Big Fights (1970)
King: A Filmed Record...Montgomery To Memphis (1970)
Say Goodbye (1971)
Woodstock (1970)

1970

 
Before the Mountain Was Moved (1970)
In the Year of the Pig (1968)
Arthur Rubinstein - the Love of Life (1969)
The Olympics In Mexico (1969)
The Wolf Men (1969)

1969

 
A Few Notes On Our Food Problem (1968)
Journey Into Self (1968)
Legendary Champions (1968)
Other Voices (1970)
Young Americans (1967)

1968

 
A King's Story (1965)
A Time For Burning (1967)
Festival (1967)
Harvest (1967)
The Anderson Platoon (1967)

1967

 
Helicopter Canada (1966)
Le Volcan Interdit (1966)
The Face of a Genius (1966)
The Really Big Family (1966)
The War Game (1965)

1966

 
Let My People Go (1965)
The Battle of the Bulge... The Brave Rifles (1965)
The Eleanor Roosevelt Story (1965)
The Forth Road Bridge (1965)
To Die In Madrid (1963)

1965

 
Four Days In November (1964)
Over There, 1914-18 (1963)
The Finest Hours (1964)
The Human Dutch (1963)
Jacques-Yves Cousteau's World Without Sun (1964)

1964

 
The Link and the Chain (1963)
Robert Frost: A Lover's Quarrel With the World (1963)
The Yanks Are Coming (1963)

1963

 
Alvorada (1962)
Black Fox: The Rise and Fall of Adolf Hitler (1962)

1962

 
The Grand Olympics (1961)
Sky Above and Mud Beneath (1961)

1961

 
The Horse With the Flying Tail (1960)
Rebel In Paradise (1960)

1960

 
Serengeti Shall Not Die (1959)
The Race For Space (1959)

1959

 
Antarctic Crossing (1958)
Psychiatric Nursing (1958)
The Hidden World (1958)
White Wilderness (1958)

1958

 
Albert Schweitzer (1957)
On the Bowery (1957)
Bullfighter (1956)

1957

 
The Naked Eye (1956)
The Silent World (1956)
Where Mountains Float (1955)

1956

 
Heartbreak Ridge (1955)
Helen Keller In Her Story (1954)

1955

 
The Stratford Adventure (1954)
The Vanishing Prairie (1954)

1954

 
A Queen Is Crowned (1953)
The Conquest of Everest (1953)
The Living Desert (1953)

1953

 
Navajo (1952)
The Hoaxters (1952)
The Sea Around Us (1953)

1952

 
I Was a Communist For the FBI (1951)
Kon-Tiki (1950)

1951

 
The Titan: Story of Michelangelo (1950)
With These Hands (1950)

1950

 
Daybreak In Udi (1949)
Kenji Comes Home (1949)

1949

 
The Quiet One (1948)
The Secret Land (1948)

1948

 
Design For Death (1947)
Journey Into Medicine (1947)
The World Is Rich (1947)

1947

 

NO AWARD GIVEN

1946

 
The Last Bomb (1945)
The True Glory (1945)

1945

 
Resisting Enemy Interrogation (1944)
The Fighting Lady (1944)

1944

 
Baptism of Fire (1943)
Desert Victory (1943)
Report From the Aleutians (1943)
Why We Fight, 5: The Battle of Russia (1943)
War Department Report (1943)

1943

 
Moscow Strikes Back (1942)
Why We Fight, 1: Prelude To War (1943)

Documentary Feature Special Awards

1942

 
1941. 'Kukan': The Battle Cry of China (1941)
1941. Target For Tonight (1941)

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