Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film

2009 LAFCA Award - Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film WinnerThe Beaches of AgnèsAgnès VardaAgnès Varda explores her memories, mostly chronologically, with photographs, film clips, interviews, reenactments, and droll, playful contemporary scenes of her narrating her story.AmazonThe CoveLouie PsihoyosUsing state-of-the-art equipment, a group of activists, led by renowned dolphin trainer Ric O'Barry, infiltrate a cove near Taijii, Japan to expose both a shocking instance of animal abuse and a serious threat to human health.Amazon

2008 LAFCA Award - Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film WinnerMan on WireJames MarshA look at tightrope walker Philippe Petit's daring, but illegal, high-wire routine performed between New York City's World Trade Center's twin towers in 1974, what some consider, "the artistic crime of the century".Amazon2008 LAFCA Award - Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film NomineesWaltz with BashirAri FolmanAmazon

2007 LAFCA Award - Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film WinnerNo End in SightCharles FergusonA comprehensive look at the Bush Administration's conduct of the Iraq war and its occupation of the country.Amazon2007 LAFCA Award - Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film NomineesSickoMichael MooreAmazon

2006 LAFCA Award - Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film WinnerAn Inconvenient TruthDavis GuggenheimFilmmaker Davis Guggenheim follows Al Gore on the lecture circuit, as the former presidential candidate campaigns to raise public awareness of the dangers of global warming and calls for immediate action to curb its destructive effects on the environment.Amazon2006 LAFCA Award - Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film NomineesDarwin's NightmareHubert SauperAmazon

2005 LAFCA Award - Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film WinnerGrizzly ManWerner HerzogA devastating and heart-rending take on grizzly bear activists Timothy Treadwell and Amie Huguenard, who were killed in October of 2003 while living among grizzly bears in Alaska.Amazon2005 LAFCA Award - Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film NomineesEnron: The Smartest Guys in the RoomAlex GibneyAmazon

1988 LAFCA Award - Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film WinnerHôtel TerminusMarcel OphülsA documentary about Klaus Barbie, the Gestapo chief of Lyon, and his life after the war.Amazon1988 LAFCA Award - Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film NomineesThe Thin Blue LineErrol MorrisAmazon

2003 LAFCA Award - Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film WinnerThe Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamaraErrol MorrisThe story of America as seen through the eyes of the former Secretary of Defense under President John F. Kennedy and President Lyndon Baines Johnson, Robert McNamara.Amazon2003 LAFCA Award - Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film NomineesCapturing the FriedmansAndrew JareckiAmazon

2002 LAFCA Award - Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film WinnerThe CockettesDavid WeissmanDocumentary about the gender-bending San Francisco performance group who became a pop culture phenomenon in the early 1970s.Amazon2002 LAFCA Award - Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film NomineesBowling for ColumbineMichael MooreAmazon

2001 LAFCA Award - Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film WinnerThe Gleaners & IAgnès VardaVarda films and interviews gleaners in France in all forms, from those picking fields after the harvest to those scouring the dumpsters of Paris.Amazon2001 LAFCA Award - Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film NomineesStartup.comChris HegedusAmazon