Film Awards

2000 Sundance Film Festival - Grand Jury Prize - Documentary WinnerLong Night's Journey Into DayFrances ReidThis documentary tells four stories of Apartheid in South Africa, as seen through the eyes of the Truth and Reconciliation commission. White soldiers who have killed ANC activists, black ...Amazon2000 Sundance Film Festival - Grand Jury Prize - Documentary NomineesAmericanos: Latino Life in the United StatesSusan ToddAmazonComing to Light: Edward S. Curtis and the North American IndiansAnne MakepeaceAmazonDark DaysMarc SingerAmazonFirst Person PluralDeann BorshayAmazonGeorge Wallace: Settin' the Woods on FireDaniel McCabeAmazonJust, Melvin: Just EvilJames Ronald WhitneyAmazonLegacyTod LendingAmazonNuyorican DreamLaurie CollyerAmazonParagraph 175Rob EpsteinAmazonScottsboro: An America...

1999 Sundance Film Festival - Grand Jury Prize - Documentary WinnerAmerican MovieChris SmithDocumentary about an aspiring filmmaker's attempts to finance his dream project by finally completing the low-budget horror film he abandoned years before.Amazon1999 Sundance Film Festival - Grand Jury Prize - Documentary NomineesAmerican HollowRory KennedyAmazonAmerican PimpAlbert HughesAmazonDeath: A Love StoryMichelle LeBrunAmazonHitchcock, Selznick and the End of HollywoodMichael EpsteinAmazonHome PageDoug BlockAmazonOn the RopesNanette BursteinAmazonRabbit in the MoonEmiko OmoriAmazonRegret to InformBarbara SonnebornAmazonSex: The Annabel Chong StoryGough LewisAmazonSing Faster: The Stagehands' Ring CycleJon ElseAmazonSpeaking in StringsPaola di FlorioAmazonThe Black Press: Soldiers Without Swo...

1998 Sundance Film Festival - Grand Jury Prize - Documentary WinnerFrat HouseTodd PhillipsAmazonThe Farm: Angola, USAJonathan StackDocumentary depicting day to day life in Angola Prison mostly from an inmate's perspective. Interviews are with several inmates including one with a life sentence who is about to die.Amazon1998 Sundance Film Festival - Grand Jury Prize - Documentary NomineesA Letter Without WordsLisa LewenzAmazonBaby, It's YouAnne MakepeaceAmazonBeautopiaKatharina Otto-BernsteinAmazonDivine TrashSteve YeagerAmazonFrank Lloyd WrightKen BurnsAmazonLou Reed: Rock and Roll HeartTimothy Greenfield-SandersAmazonModulationsIara LeeAmazonMoment of ImpactJulia LoktevAmazonOut of the PastJeff DupreAmazonPaulinaVicky FunariAmazonSlavegirlsEllen BrunoAmazonSome Nudity RequiredOdette Spring...

1997 Sundance Film Festival - Grand Jury Prize - Documentary WinnerGirls Like UsJane WagnerDocumentary about four urban teenage girls, and their opinions about religion, music and sex.Amazon1997 Sundance Film Festival - Grand Jury Prize - Documentary NomineesA Healthy Baby GirlJudith HelfandAmazonAn Act of ConscienceRobbie LeppzerAmazonFamily NameMacky AlstonAmazonFear and Learning at Hoover ElementaryLaura Angelica SimonAmazonHide and SeekSu FriedrichAmazonJohn Henrik Clarke: A Great and Mighty WalkSt. Clair BourneAmazonLicensed to KillArthur DongAmazonMy America... or Honk If You Love BuddhaRenee Tajima-PenaAmazonNew School OrderGini RetickerAmazonPaul Monette: The Brink of Summer's EndMonte BramerAmazonPoverty OutlawPamela YatesAmazonRiding the RailsMichael UysAmazonSick: The Life & Dea...

1996 Sundance Film Festival - Grand Jury Prize - Documentary WinnerTroublesome Creek: A MidwesternSteven AscherTroublesome Creek is the acclaimed story of the Jordan family's gamble to save their Iowa farm. From fighting the Crooked Creek Gang in 1867 to fighting off the bank today. An ...Amazon1996 Sundance Film Festival - Grand Jury Prize - Documentary NomineesA Leap of FaithJenifer McShaneAmazonBelly TalkersSandra LuckowAmazonBuckminster Fuller: Thinking Out LoudKaren GoodmanAmazonCutting LooseSusan ToddAmazonFire on the MountainBeth GageAmazonHalving the BonesRuth Ozeki LounsburyAmazonHype!Doug PrayAmazonJane: An Abortion ServiceKate KirtzAmazonMy Knees Were Jumping: Remembering the KindertransportsMelissa HackerAmazonParadise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood HillsJoe BerlingerAma...

1995 Sundance Film Festival - Grand Jury Prize - Documentary WinnerCrumbTerry ZwigoffAn intimate portrait of controversial cartoonist Robert Crumb and his traumatized family.Amazon1995 Sundance Film Festival - Grand Jury Prize - Documentary NomineesA Litany for Survival: The Life and Work of Audre LordeMichelle ParkersonAmazonBallot Measure 9Heather MacDonaldAmazonBlack Is... Black Ain'tMarlon RiggsAmazonBrian Wilson: I Just Wasn't Made for These TimesDon WasAmazonComplaints of a Dutiful DaughterDeborah HoffmannAmazonDorothea Lange: A Visual LifeMeg PartridgeAmazonEcological Design: Inventing the FutureBrian DanitzAmazonJupiter's WifeMichel NegroponteAmazonNo Loans TodayLisanne SkylerAmazonOut of IrelandPaul WagnerAmazonTeen DreamsLa Traun ParkerAmazonThe Devil Never SleepsLourdes Portillo...

1994 Sundance Film Festival - Grand Jury Prize - Documentary WinnerFreedom on My MindConnie FieldAmazon1994 Sundance Film Festival - Grand Jury Prize - Documentary NomineesBoatmanGianfranco RosiAmazonBoxer RebellionCelia Susan CoteloAmazonColorado Cowboy: The Bruce Ford StoryArthur ElgortAmazonComing Out Under FireArthur DongAmazonCuba Va: The Challenge of the Next GenerationGail DolginAmazonDialogues with MadwomenAllie LightAmazonFast Trip, Long DropGregg BordowitzAmazonFire EyesSoraya MireAmazonHoop DreamsSteve JamesAmazonLives in HazardAndrew YoungAmazonMama Awethu!Bethany YarrowAmazonMartha & EthelJyll JohnstoneAmazonThe Fire This TimeRandy HollandAmazonThe Heart of the MatterGini RetickerAmazonTheremin: An Electronic OdysseySteven M. MartinAmazon

1993 Sundance Film Festival - Grand Jury Prize - Documentary WinnerChildren of Fate: Life and Death in a Sicilian FamilyAndrew YoungIn 1961, Robert Young and Michael Roemer shot a gritty documentary in Palermo's Cortile Cascino, a slum reserved for rag pickers and scavengers. Thirty years later, Young's son and ...AmazonSilverlake Life: The View from HereTom JoslinA documentary about two gay men as they live through their last months of life with AIDS.Amazon1993 Sundance Film Festival - Grand Jury Prize - Documentary NomineesAileen Wuornos: The Selling of a Serial KillerNick BroomfieldAmazonDelivered VacantNora JacobsonAmazonEarth and the American DreamBill CouturiéAmazonFrom Hollywood to HanoiTiana Alexandra-SilliphantAmazonGreat PerformancesSusan SteinbergAmazonHarry Bridges: A Man and H...

1992 Sundance Film Festival - Grand Jury Prize - Documentary WinnerA Brief History of TimeErrol MorrisA film about the life and work of the cosmologist, Stephen Hawking, who despite his near total paralysis, was one of the great minds of all time.AmazonFinding ChristaCamille BillopsA filmmaker reunites with the daughter she gave up for adoption twenty years later.Amazon1992 Sundance Film Festival - Grand Jury Prize - Documentary NomineesAsylumJoan ChurchillAmazonBrother's KeeperJoe BerlingerAmazonColor AdjustmentMarlon RiggsAmazonDeep BluesRobert MuggeAmazonIn Search of Our FathersMarco WilliamsAmazonInnocents AbroadLes BlankAmazonIntimate StrangerAlan BerlinerAmazonLast Images of WarStephen OlssonAmazonRock SoupLech KowalskiAmazonShoot for the ContentsT. Minh-ha TrinhAmazonTechqua Ikachi:...

1991 Sundance Film Festival - Grand Jury Prize - Documentary WinnerAmerican DreamBarbara KoppleChronicles the six-month strike at Hormel in Austin, Minnesota, in 1985-86. The local union, P-9 of the Food and Commercial Workers, overwhelmingly rejects a contract offer with a $2/hour ...AmazonParis Is BurningJennie LivingstonA chronicle of New York's drag scene in the 1980s, focusing on balls, voguing and the ambitions and dreams of those who gave the era its warmth and vitality.Amazon1991 Sundance Film Festival - Grand Jury Prize - Documentary NomineesAbsolutely PositivePeter AdairAmazonAmazonia: Voices from the RainforestGlenn SwitkesAmazonBlood in the FaceAnne BohlenAmazonBroken MeatPola RapaportAmazonChristo in ParisDavid MayslesAmazonConey IslandRic BurnsAmazonIn the Shadow of the Stars...