Academy Awards, Documentary (Feature)

2026

The Alabama Solution

Mr. Nobody Against Putin

Come See Me in the Good Light

Cutting Through Rocks

The Perfect Neighbor

2025

Black Box Diaries

Porcelain War

No Other Land

Sugarcane

Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat

2024

20 днів у Маріуполі

La memoria infinita

بنات ألفة

To Kill a Tiger

Bobi Wine: The People's President

2023

Fire of Love

Navalny

All the Beauty and the Bloodshed

ऑल दैट ब्रीथ्स

A House Made of Splinters

2022

Attica

Writing with Fire

登楼叹

Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)

Flugt

2021

Colectiv

El Agente Topo

Time

My Octopus Teacher

Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution

2020

American Factory

Bal Ülkesi

من أجل سما

Democracia em Vertigem

The Cave

2019

Hale County This Morning, This Evening

RBG

Free Solo

Of Fathers and Sons

Minding the Gap

2018

Strong Island

Faces Places

Icarus

Abacus: Small Enough to Jail

Last Men in Aleppo

2017

13th

O.J.: Made in America

I Am Not Your Negro

Life, Animated

Fuocoammare

2016

Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom

Cartel Land

The Look of Silence

What Happened, Miss Simone?

Amy

2015

Last Days in Vietnam

Finding Vivian Maier

Virunga

The Salt of the Earth

Citizenfour

2014

Cutie and the Boxer

Dirty Wars

The Square

20 Feet from Stardom

The Act of Killing

2013

How to Survive a Plague

Five Broken Cameras

The Gatekeepers

Searching for Sugar Man

The Invisible War

2012

Hell and Back Again

If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front

Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory

Pina

Undefeated

2011

Waste Land

Inside Job

Exit Through the Gift Shop

GasLand

Restrepo

2010

Which Way Home

Food, Inc.

The Cove

Burma VJ: Reporting from a Closed Country

The Most Dangerous Man in America

2009

The Garden

Man on Wire

Encounters at the End of the World

The Betrayal (Nerakhoon)

Trouble the Water

2008

Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience

Sicko

Taxi to the Dark Side

No End in Sight

War Dance

2007

Jesus Camp

Iraq in Fragments

Deliver Us from Evil

My Country My Country

An Inconvenient Truth

2006

Le Cauchemar de Darwin

La Marche de l'empereur

Murderball

Street Fight

Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room

2005

Super Size Me

Born Into Brothels

Twist of Faith

The Story of the Weeping Camel

Tupac: Resurrection

2004

My Architect

The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara

Capturing the Friedmans

The Weather Underground

Balseros

2003

Prisoner of Paradise

Le peuple migrateur

Bowling for Columbine

Spellbound

Daughter from Danang

2002

Promises

War Photographer

Murder on a Sunday Morning

Children Underground

LaLee's Kin: The Legacy of Cotton

2001

Legacy

Scottsboro: An American Tragedy

Sound and Fury

Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport

Long Night's Journey Into Day

2000

Speaking in Strings

Buena Vista Social Club

Genghis Blues

On the Ropes

One Day in September

1999

Dancemaker

The Last Days

Regret to Inform

Lenny Bruce: Swear to Tell the Truth

The Farm: Angola, USA

1998

Colors Straight Up

4 Little Girls

The Long Way Home

Waco: The Rules of Engagement

Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life

1997

Tell the Truth and Run: George Seldes and the American Press

The Line King: The Al Hirschfeld Story

Suzanne Farrell: Elusive Muse

When We Were Kings

Mandela

1996

Small Wonders

Hank Aaron: Chasing the Dream

Troublesome Creek: A Midwestern

The Battle Over Citizen Kane

Anne Frank Remembered

1995

Complaints of a Dutiful Daughter

Freedom on My Mind

Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision

D-Day Remembered

A Great Day in Harlem

1994

For Better or for Worse

The Broadcast Tapes of Dr. Peter

I Am a Promise: The Children of Stanton Elementary School

Children of Fate

The War Room

1993

Changing Our Minds: The Story of Dr. Evelyn Hooker

Music for the Movies: Bernard Herrmann

Liberators: Fighting on Two Fronts in World War II

The Panama Deception

Fires of Kuwait

1992

Doing Time: Life Inside the Big House

Wild by Law

The Restless Conscience: Resistance to Hitler Within Germany 1933-1945

Death on the Job

In the Shadow of the Stars

1991

Berkeley in the Sixties

1990

Crack USA: County Under Siege

For All Mankind

1989

Hôtel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie

Let's Get Lost

1987

Chile: Hasta Cuando?

Isaac in America: A Journey with Isaac Bashevis Singer

1986

In the Name of the People

1985

Soldiers in Hiding

Streetwise

The Times of Harvey Milk

Marlene

Unfinished Business

1983

After the Axe

First Contact

Genocide

1982

From Mao to Mozart: Isaac Stern in China

Brooklyn Bridge

1980

The War at Home

1979

The Lovers' Wind

Mysterious Castles of Clay

1978

The Children of Theatre Street

1977

High Grass Circus

1976

The Other Half of the Sky: A China Memoir

1975

Hearts and Minds

1974

The Great American Cowboy

1973

The Ra Expeditions

Marjoe

Malcolm X

1972

On Any Sunday

The Hellstrom Chronicle

1971

Chariots of the Gods

Le Chagrin et la Pitié

Woodstock

1970

In the Year of the Pig

Arthur Rubinstein - The Love of Life

1968

Festival

1967

The War Game

1966

The Eleanor Roosevelt Story

1964

Robert Frost: A Lover's Quarrel with the World

1961

The Horse with the Flying Tail

1960

Serengeti Shall Not Die

1959

The Hidden World

White Wilderness

1958

On the Bowery

Albert Schweitzer

1957

The Silent World

1956

Helen Keller in Her Story

1955

The Vanishing Prairie

The Stratford Adventure

1954

The Living Desert

A Queen Is Crowned

The Conquest of Everest

The Sea Around Us

1953

Navajo

1951

Kon-Tiki

1950

Daybreak in Udi

1949

The Secret Land

1948

Design for Death

1946

The True Glory

The Last Bomb

1945

Resisting Enemy Interrogation

1944

Report from the Aleutians

Desert Victory

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