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2019 LAFCA Award – Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film
![American Factory](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/american-factory-steven-bognar-julia-reichert-image.jpg)
American Factory
2018 LAFCA Award – Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film
![Shirkers](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/shirkers-sandi-tan-image.jpg)
Shirkers
2017 LAFCA Award – Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film
![Faces Places](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/faces-places-jr-agnes-varda-image.jpg)
Faces Places
2016 LAFCA Award – Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film
![I Am Not Your Negro](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/i-am-not-your-negro-raoul-peck-image.jpg)
I Am Not Your Negro
2015 LAFCA Award – Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film
![Amy Asif Kapadia](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/amy-image.jpg)
Amy
Asif Kapadia
2014 LAFCA Award – Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film
![Citizenfour Laura Poitras](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/citizenfour-laura-poitras-image.jpg)
Citizenfour
Laura Poitras
2013 LAFCA Award – Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film
![Stories We Tell Sarah Polley](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/stories-we-tell-sarah-polley-image.jpg)
Stories We Tell
Sarah Polley
2012 LAFCA Award – Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film
![The Gatekeepers Dror Moreh](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-gatekeepers-dror-moreh-image.jpg)
The Gatekeepers
Dror Moreh
2011 LAFCA Award – Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film
![Cave of Forgotten Dreams](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/cave-of-forgotten-dreams-werner-herzog-image.jpg)
Cave of Forgotten Dreams
2010 LAFCA Award – Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film
![Last Train Home Lixin Fan](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/last-train-home-lixin-fan-image.jpg)
Last Train Home
Lixin Fan
2009 LAFCA Award – Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film
![The Beaches of Agnès Agnès Varda](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-beaches-of-agnes-image.jpg)
The Beaches of Agnès
Agnès Varda
2009 LAFCA Award – Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film
![The Cove Louie Psihoyos](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-cove-louie-psihoyos-image.jpg)
The Cove
Louie Psihoyos
2008 LAFCA Award – Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film
![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
2007 LAFCA Award – Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film
![No End in Sight Charles Ferguson](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/no-end-in-sight-charles-ferguson-image.jpg)
No End in Sight
Charles Ferguson
2006 LAFCA Award – Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film
![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
2005 LAFCA Award – Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film
![Grizzly Man Werner Herzog](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/grizzly-man-werner-herzog-image.jpg)
Grizzly Man
Werner Herzog
2004 LAFCA Award – Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film
![Born Into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kids Zana Briski](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
Zana Briski
2003 LAFCA Award – Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film
![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
2002 LAFCA Award – Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film
![The Cockettes David Weissman](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-cockettes-bill-weber-david-weissman-image.jpg)
The Cockettes
David Weissman
2001 LAFCA Award – Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film
![The Gleaners & I Agnès Varda](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-gleaners-and-i-image.jpg)
The Gleaners & I
Agnès Varda
2000 LAFCA Award – Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film
![Dark Days Marc Singer](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/dark-days-marc-singer-image.jpg)
Dark Days
Marc Singer
1999 LAFCA Award – Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film
![Buena Vista Social Club Wim Wenders](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/buena-vista-social-club-wim-wenders-image.jpg)
Buena Vista Social Club
Wim Wenders
1998 LAFCA Award – Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film
![The Farm: Angola, USA Jonathan Stack](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-farm-angola-usa-liz-garbus-wilbert-rideau-jonathan-stack-image.jpg)
The Farm: Angola, USA
Jonathan Stack
1997 LAFCA Award – Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film
![Riding the Rails Lexy Lovell](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/riding-the-rails-lexy-lovell-michael-uys-image.jpg)
Riding the Rails
Lexy Lovell
1996 LAFCA Award – Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film
![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
1995 LAFCA Award – Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film
![Crumb Terry Zwigoff](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/crumb-terry-zwigoff-image.jpg)
Crumb
Terry Zwigoff
1994 LAFCA Award – Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film
![Hoop Dreams Steve James](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/hoop-dreams-steve-james-image.jpg)
Hoop Dreams
Steve James
1993 LAFCA Award – Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film
![It's All True Orson Welles](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/its-all-true-bill-krohn-myron-meisel-orson-welles-richard-wilson-norman-foster-image.jpg)
It’s All True
Orson Welles
1992 LAFCA Award – Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film
![Black Harvest Bob Connolly](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/black-harvest-robin-anderson-bob-connolly-image.jpg)
Black Harvest
Bob Connolly
1992 LAFCA Award – Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film
![Threat Stefan Jarl](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/movie-cover-1-image.jpg)
Threat
Stefan Jarl
1991 LAFCA Award – Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film
![American Dream Barbara Kopple](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/american-dream-image.jpg)
American Dream
Barbara Kopple
1990 LAFCA Award – Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film
![Paris Is Burning Jennie Livingston](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/paris-is-burning-jennie-livingston-image.jpg)
Paris Is Burning
Jennie Livingston
1990 LAFCA Award – Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film
![Pictures of the Old World Dusan Hanák](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/pictures-of-the-old-world-dusan-hanak-image.jpg)
Pictures of the Old World
Dusan Hanák
1989 LAFCA Award – Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film
![Roger & Me Michael Moore](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/roger-and-me-michael-moore-image.jpg)
Roger & Me
Michael Moore
1988 LAFCA Award – Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film
![Hôtel Terminus Marcel Ophüls](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/hotel-terminus-marcel-ophuls-image.jpg)