Academy Awards: Documentary Feature Nominees and Winners

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  1. 1943

  2. Desert Victory (1943; Roy Boulting, David MacDonald) http://archive.org/details/DesertVictory
  3. Baptism of Fire (1943; US Army) http://archive.org/details/BaptismOfFire
  4. The Battle of Russia (1943; Frank Capra, Anatole Litvak) http://archive.org/details/gov.archives.arc.36071
  5. For God and Country (1943; United States Army Air Corps) http://archive.org/details/ForGodAndCountry also YouTube
  6. Report from the Aleutians (1943; John Huston) http://archive.org/details/gov.dod.dimoc.20347
  7. The Silent Village (1943; Humphrey Jennings)
  8. War Department Report (1943; Oliver Lundquist)
  9. We've Come a Long, Long Way (1944; Jack Goldberg)

  10. 1944

  11. The Fighting Lady (1944; Edward Steichen) http://archive.org/details/TheFightingLadyUssYorktown
  12. Resisting Enemy Interrogation (1944; Bernard Vorhaus) http://archive.org/details/ResistingEnemyInterrogation1944

  13. 1945

  14. The True Glory (1945; Garson Kanin) http://archive.org/details/gov.ntis.ava02725vnb1
  15. The Last Bomb (1945; Frank Lloyd) http://archive.org/details/TheLastBomb1945

  16. 1947

  17. Design for Death (1947; Sid Rogell, Theron Warth, Richard Fleischer)
  18. Journey Into Medicine (1947; Willard Van Dyke) http://archive.org/details/ JourneyIntoMedicine
  19. The World Is Rich (1947; Paul Rotha)

  20. 1948

  21. The Secret Land (1948; Orville O. Dull)
  22. The Quiet One (1948; Sidney Meyers) http://archive.org/details/the_quiet_one

  23. 1949

  24. Daybreak in Udi (1950; Terry Bishop)
  25. Kenji Comes Home (1949; Charles F. Schwep)

  26. 1950

  27. The Titan: Story of Michelangelo (1950; Robert J. Flaherty, Richard Lyford, Curt Oertel)
  28. With These Hands (1950; Jack Arnold)

  29. 1951

  30. Kon-Tiki (1950; Thor Heyerdahl)
  31. I Was a Communist for the FBI (1951; Gordon Douglas)

  32. 1952

  33. The Sea Around Us (1953; Irwin Allen)
  34. The Hoaxters (1952; Herman Hoffman)
  35. Navajo (1952; Norman Foster)

  36. 1953

  37. The Living Desert (1953; James Algar)
  38. The Conquest of Everest (1953; George Lowe)
  39. A Queen Is Crowned (1953; Christopher Fry)

  40. 1954

  41. The Vanishing Prairie (1954; James Algar)
  42. The Stratford Adventure (1954; Morten Parker)

  43. 1955

  44. The Unconquered [Helen Keller in Her Story] (1954; Nancy Hamilton)
  45. Crèvecoeur [Heartbreak Ridge] (1955; Jacques Dupont)

  46. 1956

  47. The Silent World [Le monde du silence] (1956; Jacques-Yves Cousteau, Louis Malle)
  48. The Naked Eye (1956; Louis Clyde Stoumen)
  49. Hvor bjergene sejler (1955; Bjarne Henning-Jensen)

  50. 1957

  51. Albert Schweitzer (1957; Jerome Hill)
  52. On the Bowery (1956; Lionel Rogosin)
  53. Torero (1956; Carlos Velo)

  54. 1958

  55. White Wilderness (1958; James Algar)
  56. Antarctic Crossing (1959; George Lowe)
  57. The Hidden World (1958; Robert Snyder)
  58. Psychiatric Nursing (1958; Lee R. Bobker)

  59. 1959

  60. Serengeti [Serengeti darf nicht sterben] (1959; Bernhard Grzimek)
  61. The Race for Space (TV 1959; David L. Wolper)

  62. 1960

  63. The Horse with the Flying Tail (1960; Larry Lansburgh)
  64. Rebel in Paradise (1960; Robert D. Fraser)

  65. 1961

  66. Le ciel et la boue (1961; Pierre-Dominique Gaisseau)
  67. The Grand Olympics [La grande olimpiade] (1961; Romolo Marcellini)

  68. 1962

  69. Black Fox: The True Story of Adolf Hitler (1962; Louis Clyde Stoumen)
  70. Alvorada (1962; Hugo Niebeling)

  71. 1963

  72. Robert Frost: A Lover's Quarrel with the World (1963; Shirley Clarke)
  73. Le maillon et la chaîne (1963; Jacques Ertaud, Bernard Gorki)
  74. The Yanks Are Coming (1963; Marshall Flaum) (DVD title: The Story of the U.S. Army: The Yanks Are Coming, DVD version released in 2007)

  75. 1964

  76. World Without Sun [Le monde sans soleil] (1964; Jacques-Yves Cousteau)
  77. The Finest Hours (1964; Peter Baylis)
  78. Four Days in November (1964; Mel Stuart)
  79. The Human Dutch [Alleman][ (1964; Bert Haanstra)
  80. Over There, 1914-18 [14-18] (1965; Jean Aurel)

  81. 1965

  82. The Eleanor Roosevelt Story (1965; Richard Kaplan)
  83. The Battle of the Bulge... The Brave Rifles (1965; Laurence E. Mascott )
  84. The Forth Road Bridge (1965; Gordon Lang)
  85. Let My People Go: The Story of Israel (1965; Marshall Flaum)
  86. Mourir à Madrid (1963; Frédéric Rossif)

  87. 1966

  88. The War Game (1965; Peter Watkins) http://archive.org/details/AV_179-THE_WAR_GAME-_THE_REALITY_OF_NUCLEAR_WAR
  89. The Face of a Genius (1966; Alfred R. Kelman)
  90. Helicopter Canada (1969; Eugene Boyko)
  91. Le volcan interdit (1966; Haroun Tazieff)
  92. The Really Big Family (1966; Alexander Grasshoff)

  93. 1967

  94. The Anderson Platoon [La section Anderson] (1967; Pierre Schoendoerffer)
  95. Festival (1967; Murray Lerner)
  96. Harvest (1967; Carroll Ballard)
  97. A King's Story (1967; Harry Booth)
  98. A Time for Burning (1967; Barbara Connell, Bill Jersey)

  99. 1968

  100. Journey Into Self (1969; Bill McGaw)
  101. A Few Notes on Our Food Problem (1968; James Blue)
  102. Legendary Champions (1968; Harry Chapin)
  103. Other Voices (1970; David H. Sawyer)
  104. Young Americans (1967; Alexander Grasshoff)

  105. 1969

  106. L'amour de la vie - Artur Rubinstein (1969; Gérard Patris, François Reichenbach)
  107. Before the Mountain Was Moved (1970; Robert K. Sharpe)
  108. In the Year of the Pig (1968; Emile de Antonio)
  109. The Olympics in Mexico [Olimpiada en México] (1969; Alberto Isaac)
  110. The Wolf Men (1969; Irwin Rosten )

  111. 1970

  112. Woodstock (1970; Michael Wadleigh)
  113. Chariots of the Gods [Erinnerungen an die Zukunft] (1970; Harald Reinl)
  114. Jack Johnson (1970; Jim Jacobs)
  115. King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis (1970; Sidney Lumet, Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
  116. Say Goodbye (1971; David H. Vowell)

  117. 1971

  118. The Hellstrom Chronicle (1971; Walon Green, Ed Spiegel)
  119. Alaska Wilderness Lake (1971; Alan Landsburg )
  120. On Any Sunday (1971; Bruce Brown)
  121. The Ra Expeditions [Ra] (1972; Lennart Ehrenborg, Thor Heyerdahl)
  122. The Sorrow and the Pity [Le Chagrin et la pitié] (1969; Marcel Ophüls)

  123. 1972

  124. Marjoe (1972; Sarah Kernochan, Howard Smith)
  125. Bij de beesten af [Ape and Super-Ape] (1972; Bert Haanstra)
  126. Malcolm X (1972; Arnold Perl)
  127. Manson (1973; Robert Hendrickson, Laurence Merrick)
  128. The Silent Revolution (1972; Eckehard Munck)

  129. 1973

  130. The Great American Cowboy (1973; Kieth Merrill)
  131. Always a New Beginning (1974; John D. Goodell)
  132. Battle of Berlin [Schlacht um Berlin] (1973; Franz Baake, Jost von Morr)
  133. Journey to the Outer Limits (1973; Alexander Grasshoff)
  134. Walls of Fire (1971; Herbert Kline, Edmund Penney)

  135. 1974

  136. Hearts and Minds (1974; Peter Davis)
  137. Antonia: A Portrait of the Woman (1974; Jill Godmilow)
  138. The Challenge... A Tribute to Modern Art (1977; Herbert Kline)
  139. The 81st Blow [Ha-Makah Hashmonim V'Echad] (1975; David Bergman, Jacques Ehrlich, Haim Gouri)
  140. The Wild and the Brave (1974; Eugene S. Jones)

  141. 1975

  142. The Man Who Skied Down Everest (1975; Bruce Nyznik, Lawrence Schiller)
  143. The California Reich (1975; Keith Critchlow, Walter F. Parkes)
  144. Fighting for Our Lives (1975; Peter Matthiessen, Glen Pearcy, Luis Valdez)
  145. Incredible Human Machine (2007; Arthur F. Binkowski, Chad Cohen)
  146. The Other Half of the Sky: A China Memoir (1975; Shirley MacLaine, Claudia Weill)

  147. 1976

  148. Harlan County, U.S.A. (1976; Barbara Kopple)
  149. Hollywood on Trial (1976; David Helpern)
  150. Off the Edge (1976; Michael Firth)
  151. People of the Wind (1976; Anthony Howarth)
  152. Volcano: An Inquiry Into the Life and Death of Malcolm Lowry (1976; Donald Brittain, John Kramer)

  153. 1977

  154. Who Are the DeBolts? [And Where Did They Get 19 Kids?] (1977; John Korty)
  155. The Children of Theatre Street (1977; Robert Dornhelm, Earle Mack)
  156. High Grass Circus (1977; Tony Ianzelo, Torben Schioler)
  157. Homage to Chagall: The Colours of Love (1977; Harry Rasky)
  158. Union Maids (1976; Jim Klein, Miles Mogulescu, Julia Reichert)

  159. 1978

  160. Scared Straight! (1978; Arnold Shapiro)
  161. Mysterious Castles of Clay (1978; Alan Root)
  162. Raoni (1978; Jean-Pierre Dutilleux, Luiz Carlos Saldanha)
  163. Le vent des amoureux [The Lovers' Wind] (1978; Albert Lamorisse)
  164. With Babies and Banners: Story of the Women's Emergency Brigade (1979; Lorraine Gray)

  165. 1979

  166. Best Boy (1979; Ira Wohl)
  167. Generation on the Wind (1979; David Vassar)
  168. Going the Distance (1979; Paul Cowan)
  169. The Killing Ground (1979; Tom Priestley, Steve Singer)
  170. The War at Home (1979; Glenn Silber, Barry Alexander Brown)

  171. 1980

  172. From Mao to Mozart: Isaac Stern in China (1981; Murray Lerner)
  173. Agee (1980; Ross Spears)
  174. The Day After Trinity (1981; Jon Else)
  175. Front Line (1979; David Bradbury)
  176. The Yellow Star: The Persecution of the Jews in Europe - 1933-1945 [Der gelbe Stern] (1981; Dieter Hildebrandt)

  177. 1981

  178. Genocide (1982; Arnold Schwartzman)
  179. Against Wind and Tide: A Cuban Odyssey (1981; Susanne Bauman)
  180. Brooklyn Bridge (1981; Ken Burns)
  181. Eight Minutes to Midnight: A Portrait of Dr. Helen Caldicott (1981; Mary Benjamin)
  182. El Salvador: Another Vietnam (1981; Glenn Silber, Teté Vasconcellos)

  183. 1982

  184. Just Another Missing Kid (1982; John Zaritsky)
  185. After the Axe (1981; Sturla Gunnarsson)
  186. Ben's Mill (1982; Michel Chalufour, John Karol)
  187. In Our Water (1982; Meg Switzgable)
  188. A Portrait of Giselle (1982; Muriel Balash) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fkWRdBJn-4

  189. 1983

  190. He Makes Me Feel Like Dancin' (1983; Emile Ardolino)
  191. Children of Darkness (1983; Ara Chekmayan, Richard Kotuk)
  192. First Contact (1982; Robin Anderson, Bob Connolly)
  193. The Profession of Arms (1983; Michael Bryans, Tina Viljoen)
  194. Seeing Red (1983; Jim Klein, Julia Reichert)

  195. 1984

  196. The Times of Harvey Milk (1984; Rob Epstein)
  197. High Schools (1983; Charles Guggenheim)
  198. In the Name of the People (1985; Frank Christopher)
  199. Marlene (1984; Maximilian Schell)
  200. Streetwise - Cheryl McCall, Producer (1984; Martin Bell)

  201. 1985

  202. Broken Rainbow (1985; Victoria Mudd)
  203. Las madres de la Plaza de Mayo (1985; Susana Blaustein Muñoz, Lourdes Portillo)
  204. Soldiers in Hiding (1985; Malcolm Clarke)
  205. The Statue of Liberty (1985; Ken Burns)
  206. Unfinished Business (1986; Steven Okazaki)

  207. 1986

  208. Artie Shaw: Time Is All You've Got (1985; Brigitte Berman)
  209. Chile: Hasta Cuando? (1986; David Bradbury)
  210. Isaac in America: A Journey with Isaac Bashevis Singer (1987; Amram Nowak)
  211. Witness to Apartheid (1986; Kevin Harris, Sharon I. Sopher)

  212. 1987

  213. The Ten-Year Lunch: The Wit and Legend of the Algonquin Round Table (1987; Aviva Slesin)
  214. Eyes on the Prize (1987; James A. DeVinney, Orlando Bagwell, Callie Crossley, Judith Vecchione, Sheila Curran Bernard, Madison D. Lacy, Louis J. Massiah, Samuel D. Pollard, Terry Kay Rockefeller, Jacqueline Shearer, Paul Stekler, Henry Hampton)
  215. Hellfire: A Journey from Hiroshima (1986; Michael Camerini, John Junkerman, James MacDonald)
  216. Radio Bikini (1988; Robert Stone)
  217. A Stitch for Time (1987; Nigel Noble)

  218. 1988

  219. Hôtel Terminus (1988; Marcel Ophüls)
  220. The Cry of Reason: Beyers Naude - An Afrikaner Speaks Out (1988; Robert Bilheimer)
  221. Let's Get Lost (1988; Bruce Weber)
  222. Promises to Keep (1988; Ginny Durrin)
  223. Who Killed Vincent Chin? (1987; Christine Choy, Renee Tajima-Pena)

  224. 1989

  225. Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt (1989; Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman)
  226. Adam Clayton Powell (1989; Richard Kilberg)
  227. Crack USA: County Under Siege (1989; Vince DiPersio, Bill Guttentag)
  228. For All Mankind (1989; Al Reinert)
  229. Super Chief: The Life and Legacy of Earl Warren (1989; Bill Jersey)

  230. 1990

  231. American Dream (1990; Barbara Kopple, Cathy Caplan, Thomas Haneke, Lawrence Silk)
  232. Berkeley in the Sixties (1990; Mark Kitchell)
  233. Building Bombs (1991; Mark Mori, Susan Robinson)
  234. Forever Activists: Stories from the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade (1990; Connie Field, Judith Montell)
  235. Waldo Salt: A Screenwriter's Journey (1992; Eugene Corr, Robert Hillmann)

  236. 1991

  237. In the Shadow of the Stars (1991; Allie Light, Irving Saraf)
  238. Death on the Job (1991; Vince DiPersio, Bill Guttentag)
  239. Doing Time: Life Inside the Big House (1991; Alan Raymond)
  240. The Restless Conscience: Resistance to Hitler Within Germany 1933-1945 (1992; Hava Kohav Beller)
  241. Wild by Law (1991; Lawrence Hott, Diane Garey)

  242. 1992

  243. The Panama Deception (1992; Barbara Trent)
  244. Changing Our Minds: The Story of Dr. Evelyn Hooker (1992; Richard Schmiechen)
  245. Fires of Kuwait (1992; David Douglas)
  246. Liberators: Fighting on Two Fronts in World War II (TV 1992; William Miles, Nina Rosenblum)
  247. Music for the Movies: Bernard Herrmann (1992; Joshua Waletzky)

  248. 1993

  249. I Am a Promise: The Children of Stanton Elementary School (1993; Susan Raymond)
  250. The Broadcast Tapes of Dr. Peter (1993; David Paperny)
  251. Children of Fate: Life and Death in a Sicilian Family (1993; Michael Roemer, Susan Todd, Andrew Young, Robert M. Young)
  252. For Better or for Worse (1993; Dave Collier)
  253. The War Room (1993; Chris Hegedus, D.A. Pennebaker)

  254. 1994

  255. Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision (1994; Freida Lee Mock)
  256. Complaints of a Dutiful Daughter (1994; Deborah Hoffmann)
  257. D-Day Remembered (1994; Charles Guggenheim)
  258. Freedom on My Mind (1994; Connie Field, Marilyn Mulford)
  259. A Great Day in Harlem (1994; Jean Bach)

  260. 1995

  261. Anne Frank Remembered (1995; Jon Blair)
  262. The Battle Over Citizen Kane (1996; Michael Epstein, Thomas Lennon)
  263. Small Wonders (1995; Allan Miller)
  264. Hank Aaron: Chasing the Dream (1995; Michael Tollin)
  265. Troublesome Creek: A Midwestern (1995; Steven Ascher, Jeanne Jordan)

  266. 1996

  267. When We Were Kings (1996; Leon Gast)
  268. The Line King: The Al Hirschfeld Story (1996; Susan Warms Dryfoos)
  269. Mandela (1996; Angus Gibson, Jo Menell)
  270. Suzanne Farrell: Elusive Muse (1996; Anne Belle, Deborah Dickson)
  271. Tell the Truth and Run: George Seldes and the American Press (1996; Rick Goldsmith)

  272. 1997

  273. The Long Way Home (1997; Mark Jonathan Harris)
  274. Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life (1997; Michael Paxton)
  275. Colors Straight Up (1997; Michèle Ohayon)
  276. 4 Little Girls (1997; Spike Lee)
  277. Waco: The Rules of Engagement (1997; William Gazecki)

  278. 1998

  279. The Last Days (1998; James Moll)
  280. Dancemaker (1998; Matthew Diamond)
  281. The Farm: Angola, USA (1998; Liz Garbus, Wilbert Rideau, Jonathan Stack)
  282. Lenny Bruce: Swear to Tell the Truth (1998; Robert B. Weide)
  283. Regret to Inform (1998; Barbara Sonneborn)

  284. 1999

  285. Buena Vista Social Club (1999; Wim Wenders)
  286. One Day in September (1999; Kevin Macdonald)
  287. Genghis Blues (1999; Roko Belic)
  288. On the Ropes (1999; Nanette Burstein, Brett Morgen)
  289. Speaking in Strings (1999; Paola di Florio)

  290. 2000

  291. Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport (2000; Mark Jonathan Harris)
  292. Legacy (2000; Tod Lending)
  293. Long Night's Journey Into Day (2000; Deborah Hoffmann, Frances Reid)
  294. Scottsboro: An American Tragedy (2000; Daniel Anker, Barak Goodman)
  295. Sound and Fury (2000; Josh Aronson)

  296. 2001

  297. Murder on a Sunday Morning [Un coupable idéal] (2001; Jean-Xavier de Lestrade)
  298. Children Underground (2001; Edet Belzberg)
  299. LaLee's Kin: The Legacy of Cotton (TV 2001; Deborah Dickson, Susan Frömke, Albert Maysles)
  300. Promises (2001; Carlos Bolado, B.Z. Goldberg, Justine Shapiro)
  301. War Photographer (2001; Christian Frei)

  302. 2002

  303. Bowling for Columbine (2002; Michael Moore)
  304. Daughter from Danang (2002; Gail Dolgin, Vicente Franco) 8/31
  305. Prisoner Of Paradise (2002; Malcolm Clarke, Stuart Sender)
  306. Spellbound (2002; Jeffrey Blitz)
  307. Winged Migration (2001; Jacques Perrin, Jacques Cluzaud, Michel Debats)

  308. 2003

  309. The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons From the Life of Robert S. McNamara (2003; Errol Morris)
  310. Capturing the Friedmans (2003; Andrew Jarecki)
  311. Cuban Rafters [Balseros] (2002; Carles Bosch, Josep Maria Domènech)
  312. My Architect (2003; Nathaniel Kahn)
  313. The Weather Underground (2002; Sam Green, Bill Siegel)

  314. 2004

  315. Born Into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kids (2004; Zana Briski, Ross Kauffman)
  316. Story of the Weeping Camel [Die Geschichte vom weinenden Kamel] (2003; Byambasuren Davaa, Luigi Falorni)
  317. Super Size Me (2004; Morgan Spurlock)
  318. Tupac: Resurrection (2003; Lauren Lazin)
  319. Twist of Faith (2004; Kirby Dick)

  320. 2005

  321. March of the Penguins [La marche de l'empereur] (2005; Luc Jacquet)
  322. Darwin's Nightmare (2004; Hubert Sauper)
  323. Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (2005; Alex Gibney)
  324. Murderball (2005; Henry Alex Rubin, Dana Adam Shapiro)
  325. Street Fight (2005; Marshall Curry)

  326. 2006

  327. An Inconvenient Truth (2006; Davis Guggenheim)
  328. Deliver Us from Evil (2006; Amy Berg)
  329. Iraq in Fragments (2006; James Longley)
  330. Jesus Camp (2006; Heidi Ewing, Rachel Grady)
  331. My Country, My Country (TV 2006; Laura Poitras)

  332. 2007

  333. Taxi to the Dark Side (2007; Alex Gibney)
  334. No End in Sight (2007; Charles Ferguson)
  335. Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience (2007; Richard Robbins)
  336. Sicko (2007; Michael Moore)
  337. War Dance (2007; Sean Fine, Andrea Nix)

  338. 2008

  339. Man on Wire (2008; James Marsh)
  340. The Betrayal - Nerakhoon (2008; Ellen Kuras, Thavisouk Phrasavath)
  341. Encounters at the End of the World (2007; Werner Herzog)
  342. The Garden (2008; Scott Hamilton Kennedy)
  343. Trouble the Water (2008; Carl Deal, Tia Lessin)

  344. 2009

  345. The Cove (2009; Louie Psihoyos)
  346. Burma VJ: Reporting from a closed land [Burma VJ: Reporter i et lukket land] (2008; Anders Østergaard)
  347. Food, Inc. (2008; Robert Kenner)
  348. The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers (2009; Judith Ehrlich, Rick Goldsmith)
  349. Which Way Home (2009; Rebecca Cammisa)

  350. 2010

  351. Inside Job (2010; Charles Ferguson)
  352. Exit Through the Gift Shop (2010; Banksy)
  353. GasLand (2010; Josh Fox)
  354. Restrepo (2010; Tim Hetherington, Sebastian Junger)
  355. Waste Land (2010; Lucy Walker, Karen Harley, João Jardim)

  356. 2011

  357. Undefeated (2011; Daniel Lindsay, T.J. Martin)
  358. Hell and Back Again (2011; Danfung Dennis)
  359. If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front (2011; Marshall Curry, Sam Cullman)
  360. Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory (2011; Joe Berlinger, Bruce Sinofsky)
  361. Pina (2011; Wim Wenders)

  362. 2012

  363. Searching for Sugar Man (2012; Malik Bendjelloul)
  364. 5 Broken Cameras (2011; Emad Burnat, Guy Davidi)
  365. The Gatekeepers (2012; Dror Moreh)
  366. How to Survive a Plague (2012; David France)
  367. The Invisible War (2012; Kirby Dick)
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Winners are listed first

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Documentary Feature Academy Awards Nominees and Winners