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2020 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)
![American Factory Steven Bognar](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/american-factory-steven-bognar-julia-reichert-movie-image.jpg)
American Factory
Steven Bognar
2019 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)
![Free Solo Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/free-solo-jimmy-chin-elizabeth-chai-vasarhelyi-movie-image.jpg)
Free Solo
Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi
2018 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)
![Icarus Bryan Fogel](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/icarus-bryan-fogel-image.jpg)
Icarus
Bryan Fogel
2017 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)
![O.J.: Made in America Ezra Edelman](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/o.j.-made-in-america-ezra-edelman-image.jpg)
O.J.: Made in America
Ezra Edelman
2016 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)
![Amy Asif Kapadia](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/amy-image.jpg)
Amy
Asif Kapadia
2015 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)
![Citizenfour Laura Poitras](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/citizenfour-laura-poitras-image.jpg)
Citizenfour
Laura Poitras
2014 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)
![20 Feet from Stardom Morgan Neville](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/20-feet-from-stardom-morgan-neville-image.jpg)
20 Feet from Stardom
Morgan Neville
2013 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)
![Searching for Sugar Man Malik Bendjelloul](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/searching-for-sugar-man-malik-bendjelloul-image.jpg)
Searching for Sugar Man
Malik Bendjelloul
2012 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)
![Undefeated Daniel Lindsay](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/undefeated-daniel-lindsay-t.j.-martin-image.jpg)
Undefeated
Daniel Lindsay
2011 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)
![Inside Job Charles Ferguson](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/inside-job-charles-ferguson-image.jpg)
Inside Job
Charles Ferguson
2010 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)
![The Cove Louie Psihoyos](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-cove-louie-psihoyos-image.jpg)
The Cove
Louie Psihoyos
2009 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)
![Man on Wire James Marsh](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/man-on-wire-james-marsh-image.jpg)
Man on Wire
James Marsh
2008 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)
![Taxi to the Dark Side Alex Gibney](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/taxi-to-the-dark-side-image.jpg)
Taxi to the Dark Side
Alex Gibney
2007 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)
![An Inconvenient Truth Davis Guggenheim](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/an-inconvenient-truth-davis-guggenheim-image.jpg)
An Inconvenient Truth
Davis Guggenheim
2006 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)
![March of the Penguins Luc Jacquet](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/march-of-the-penguins-luc-jacquet-image.jpg)
March of the Penguins
Luc Jacquet
2005 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)
![Born Into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kids Ross Kauffman](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/born-into-brothels-calcuttas-red-light-kids-zana-briski-ross-kauffman-image.jpg)
Born Into Brothels: Calcutta’s Red Light Kids
Ross Kauffman
2004 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)
![The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara Errol Morris](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-fog-of-war-eleven-lessons-from-the-life-of-robert-s.-mcnamara-errol-morris-image.jpg)
The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara
Errol Morris
2003 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)
![Bowling for Columbine Michael Moore](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/bowling-for-columbine-michael-moore-image.jpg)
Bowling for Columbine
Michael Moore
2002 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)
![Murder on a Sunday Morning Jean-Xavier de Lestrade](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/murder-on-a-sunday-morning-jean-xavier-de-lestrade-image.jpg)
Murder on a Sunday Morning
Jean-Xavier de Lestrade
2001 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)
![Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport Mark Jonathan Harris](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/into-the-arms-of-strangers-stories-of-the-kindertransport-mark-jonathan-harris-image.jpg)
Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport
Mark Jonathan Harris
2000 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)
![One Day in September Arthur Cohn](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/one-day-in-september-kevin-macdonald-image.jpg)
One Day in September
Arthur Cohn
1999 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)
![The Last Days James Moll](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-last-days-james-moll-image.jpg)
The Last Days
James Moll
1998 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)
![The Long Way Home Marvin Hier](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-long-way-home-mark-jonathan-harris-image.jpg)
The Long Way Home
Marvin Hier
1997 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)
![When We Were Kings Leon Gast](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/when-we-were-kings-leon-gast-image.jpg)
When We Were Kings
Leon Gast
1996 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)
![Anne Frank Remembered Jon Blair](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/anne-frank-remembered-jon-blair-image.jpg)
Anne Frank Remembered
Jon Blair
1995 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)
![Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision Freida Lee Mock](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/maya-lin-a-strong-clear-vision-freida-lee-mock-image.jpg)
Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision
Freida Lee Mock
1994 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)
![I Am a Promise: The Children of Stanton Elementary School Susan Raymond](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/i-am-a-promise-the-children-of-stanton-elementary-school-susan-raymond-image.jpg)
I Am a Promise: The Children of Stanton Elementary School
Susan Raymond
1993 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)
![The Panama Deception Barbara Trent](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-panama-deception-image.jpg)
The Panama Deception
Barbara Trent
1992 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)
![In the Shadow of the Stars Allie Light](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/in-the-shadow-of-the-stars-image.jpg)
In the Shadow of the Stars
Allie Light
1991 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)
![American Dream Barbara Kopple](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/american-dream-image.jpg)
American Dream
Barbara Kopple
1990 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)
![Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt Rob Epstein](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/common-threads-stories-from-the-quilt-rob-epstein-jeffrey-friedman-image.jpg)
Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt
Rob Epstein
1989 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)
![Hôtel Terminus Marcel Ophüls](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/hotel-terminus-marcel-ophuls-image.jpg)
Hôtel Terminus
Marcel Ophüls
1988 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)
![The Ten-Year Lunch: The Wit and Legend of the Algonquin Round Table Aviva Slesin](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-ten-year-lunch-the-wit-and-legend-of-the-algonquin-round-table-image.jpg)
The Ten-Year Lunch: The Wit and Legend of the Algonquin Round Table
Aviva Slesin
1987 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)
![Artie Shaw: Time Is All You've Got Brigitte Berman](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/artie-shaw-time-is-all-youve-got-brigitte-berman-image.jpg)
Artie Shaw: Time Is All You’ve Got
Brigitte Berman
1987 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)
![Down and Out in America Joseph Feury](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/down-and-out-in-america-lee-grant-image.jpg)
Down and Out in America
Joseph Feury
1986 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)
![Broken Rainbow Maria Florio](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/broken-rainbow-victoria-mudd-image.jpg)
Broken Rainbow
Maria Florio
1985 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)
![The Times of Harvey Milk Rob Epstein](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-times-of-harvey-milk-image.jpg)
The Times of Harvey Milk
Rob Epstein
1984 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)
![He Makes Me Feel Like Dancin' Emile Ardolino](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/he-makes-me-feel-like-dancin-image.jpg)
He Makes Me Feel Like Dancin’
Emile Ardolino
1983 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)
![The Fifth Estate John Zaritsky](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-fifth-estate-image.jpg)
The Fifth Estate
John Zaritsky
1982 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)
![Genocide Arnold Schwartzman](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/genocide-arnold-schwartzman-image.jpg)
Genocide
Arnold Schwartzman
1981 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)
![From Mao to Mozart: Isaac Stern in China Murray Lerner](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/from-mao-to-mozart-isaac-stern-in-china-murray-lerner-image.jpg)
From Mao to Mozart: Isaac Stern in China
Murray Lerner
1980 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)
![Best Boy Ira Wohl](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/best-boy-ira-wohl-image.jpg)
Best Boy
Ira Wohl
1979 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)
![Scared Straight! Arnold Shapiro](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/scared-straight-arnold-shapiro-image.jpg)
Scared Straight!
Arnold Shapiro
1978 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)
![Who Are the DeBolts? [And Where Did They Get 19 Kids?] John Korty](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/who-are-the-debolts-[and-where-did-they-get-19-kids]-john-korty-image.jpg)
Who Are the DeBolts? [And Where Did They Get 19 Kids?]
John Korty
1977 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)
![Harlan County U.S.A. Barbara Kopple](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/harlan-county-u.s.a.-image.jpg)
Harlan County U.S.A.
Barbara Kopple
1976 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)
![The Man Who Skied Down Everest F.R. Crawley](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-man-who-skied-down-everest-bruce-nyznik-image.jpg)
The Man Who Skied Down Everest
F.R. Crawley
1975 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)
![Hearts and Minds Peter Davis](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/hearts-and-minds-peter-davis-image.jpg)
Hearts and Minds
Peter Davis
1974 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)
![The Great American Cowboy Kieth Merrill](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-great-american-cowboy-kieth-merrill-image.jpg)
The Great American Cowboy
Kieth Merrill
1973 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)
![Marjoe Howard Smith](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/marjoe-sarah-kernochan-howard-smith-image.jpg)
Marjoe
Howard Smith
1972 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)
![The Hellstrom Chronicle Walon Green](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-hellstrom-chronicle-walon-green-ed-spiegel-image.jpg)
The Hellstrom Chronicle
Walon Green
1971 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)
![Woodstock Bob Maurice](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/woodstock-michael-wadleigh-image.jpg)
Woodstock
Bob Maurice
1970 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)
![Love of Life Bernard Chevry](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/movie-cover-1-image.jpg)
Love of Life
Bernard Chevry
1969 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)
![Journey Into Self Bill McGaw](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/movie-cover-1-image.jpg)
Journey Into Self
Bill McGaw
1968 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)
![The Anderson Platoon Pierre Schoendoerffer](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-anderson-platoon-pierre-schoendoerffer-image.jpg)
The Anderson Platoon
Pierre Schoendoerffer
1967 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)
![The War Game Peter Watkins](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-war-game-peter-watkins-image.jpg)
The War Game
Peter Watkins
1966 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)
![The Eleanor Roosevelt Story Sidney Glazier](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-eleanor-roosevelt-story-richard-kaplan-image.jpg)
The Eleanor Roosevelt Story
Sidney Glazier
1965 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)
![World Without Sun Jacques-Yves Cousteau](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/world-without-sun-jacques-yves-cousteau-image.jpg)
World Without Sun
Jacques-Yves Cousteau
1964 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)
![Robert Frost: A Lover's Quarrel with the World Robert Hughes](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/robert-frost-a-lovers-quarrel-with-the-world-shirley-clarke-image.jpg)
Robert Frost: A Lover’s Quarrel with the World
Robert Hughes
1963 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)
![Black Fox: The True Story of Adolf Hitler Louis Clyde Stoumen](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/black-fox-the-true-story-of-adolf-hitler-louis-clyde-stoumen-image.jpg)
Black Fox: The True Story of Adolf Hitler
Louis Clyde Stoumen
1962 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)
![Le ciel et la boue Arthur Cohn](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/le-ciel-et-la-boue-pierre-dominique-gaisseau-image.jpg)
Le ciel et la boue
Arthur Cohn
1961 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)
![The Horse with the Flying Tail Larry Lansburgh](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-horse-with-the-flying-tail-larry-lansburgh-image.jpg)
The Horse with the Flying Tail
Larry Lansburgh
1960 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)
![Serengeti Bernhard Grzimek](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/serengeti-bernhard-grzimek-image.jpg)
Serengeti
Bernhard Grzimek
1959 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)
![White Wilderness Ben Sharpsteen](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/white-wilderness-james-algar-image.jpg)
White Wilderness
Ben Sharpsteen
1958 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)
![Albert Schweitzer Jerome Hill](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/albert-schweitzer-jerome-hill-image.jpg)
Albert Schweitzer
Jerome Hill
1957 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)
![The Silent World Jacques-Yves Cousteau](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-silent-world-jacques-yves-cousteau-louis-malle-image.jpg)
The Silent World
Jacques-Yves Cousteau
1956 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)
![The Unconquered Nancy Hamilton](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-unconquered-nancy-hamilton-image.jpg)
The Unconquered
Nancy Hamilton
1955 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)
![The Vanishing Prairie Walt Disney](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-vanishing-prairie-james-algar-image.jpg)
The Vanishing Prairie
Walt Disney
1954 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)
![The Living Desert Walt Disney](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-living-desert-james-algar-image.jpg)
The Living Desert
Walt Disney
1953 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)
![The Sea Around Us Irwin Allen](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-sea-around-us-irwin-allen-image.jpg)
The Sea Around Us
Irwin Allen
1952 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)
![Kon-Tiki Olle Nordemar](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/kon-tiki-thor-heyerdahl-image.jpg)
Kon-Tiki
Olle Nordemar
1951 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)
![The Titan: Story of Michelangelo Robert Snyder](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-titan-story-of-michelangelo-robert-j.-flaherty-richard-lyford-curt-oertel-image.jpg)
The Titan: Story of Michelangelo
Robert Snyder
1950 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)
![Daybreak in Udi null](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/movie-cover-1-image.jpg)
Daybreak in Udi
null
1949 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)
![The Secret Land Orville O. Dull](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-secret-land-image.jpg)
The Secret Land
Orville O. Dull
1948 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)
![Design for Death Sid Rogell](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/movie-cover-1-image.jpg)
Design for Death
Sid Rogell
1946 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)
![The True Glory null](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-true-glory-garson-kanin-carol-reed-image.jpg)
The True Glory
null
1945 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)
![The Fighting Lady null](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-fighting-lady-edward-steichen-william-wyler-image.jpg)
The Fighting Lady
null
1944 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)
![Desert Victory null](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/desert-victory-roy-boulting-david-macdonald-image.jpg)
Desert Victory
null
1943 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)
![Kokoda Front Line! null](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/kokoda-front-line-image.jpg)
Kokoda Front Line!
null
1943 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)
![Moscow Strikes Back null](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/moscow-strikes-back-ilya-kopalin-leonid-varlamov-image.jpg)
Moscow Strikes Back
null
1943 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)
![Prelude to War null](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/prelude-to-war-frank-capra-anatole-litvak-image.jpg)
Prelude to War
null
1943 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)
![The Battle of Midway null](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-battle-of-midway-john-ford-image.jpg)
The Battle of Midway
null
1942 Academy Awards – Documentary (Feature)
![Churchill's Island null](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/movie-cover-1-image.jpg)