Academy Awards: Documentary Feature Nominees and Winners

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  1. 1943

  2. Baptism of Fire - United States Army
  3. The Battle of Russia - United States Department of War Special Service Division
  4. Desert Victory - British Ministry of Information
  5. For God and Country - United States Army Pictorial Service
  6. Report from the Aleutians - United States Army Pictorial Service
  7. Silent Village - British Ministry of Information
  8. War Department Report - United States Office of Strategic Services Field Photographic Bureau
  9. We've Come a Long, Long Way - Negro Marches On, Inc.
  10. 1944

  11. The Fighting Lady - United States Navy
  12. Resisting Enemy Interrogation - United States Army Air Force
  13. 1945

  14. The Last Bomb - United States Army Air Force
  15. The True Glory - The Governments of Great Britain and the United States of America
  16. 1947

  17. Design for Death - Sid Rogell, Executive Producer; Theron Warth and Richard O. Fleischer, Producers
  18. Journey into Medicine - United States Department of State Office of Information and Educational Exchange
  19. The World Is Rich - Paul Rotha, Producer
  20. 1948

  21. The Quiet One - Janice Loeb, Producer
  22. The Secret Land - Orville O. Dull, Producer
  23. 1949

  24. Daybreak in Udi - Crown Film Unit
  25. Kenji Comes Home - Paul F. Heard, Producer
  26. 1950

  27. The Titan: Story of Michelangelo - Robert Snyder, Producer
  28. With These Hands - Jack Arnold and Lee Goodman, Producers
  29. 1951

  30. I Was a Communist for the F.B.I. - Bryan Foy, Producer
  31. Kon-Tiki - Olle Nordemar, Producer
  32. 1952

  33. The Hoaxters - Dore Schary, Producer
  34. Navajo - Hall Bartlett, Producer
  35. The Sea around Us - Irwin Allen, Producer
  36. 1953

  37. The Conquest of Everest - John Taylor, Leon Clore and Grahame Tharp, Producers
  38. The Living Desert - Walt Disney, Producer
  39. A Queen Is Crowned - Castleton Knight, Producer
  40. 1954

  41. The Stratford Adventure - Guy Glover, Producer
  42. The Vanishing Prairie - Walt Disney, Producer
  43. 1955

  44. Heartbreak Ridge - Rene Risacher, Producer
  45. Helen Keller in Her Story - Nancy Hamilton, Producer
  46. 1956

  47. The Naked Eye - Louis Clyde Stoumen, Producer
  48. The Silent World - Jacques-Yves Cousteau, Producer
  49. Where Mountains Float - The Government Film Committee of Denmark
  50. 1957

  51. Albert Schweitzer - Jerome Hill, Producer
  52. On the Bowery - Lionel Rogosin, Producer
  53. Torero! - Manuel Barbachano Ponce, Producer
  54. 1958

  55. Antarctic Crossing - James Carr, Producer
  56. The Hidden World - Robert Snyder, Producer
  57. Psychiatric Nursing - Nathan Zucker, Producer
  58. White Wilderness - Ben Sharpsteen, Producer
  59. 1959

  60. The Race for Space - David L. Wolper, Producer
  61. Serengeti Shall Not Die - Bernhard Grzimek, Producer
  62. 1960

  63. The Horse with the Flying Tail - Larry Lansburgh, Producer
  64. Rebel in Paradise - Robert D. Fraser, Producer
  65. 1961

  66. La Grande Olimpiade (Olympic Games 1960) - dell Istituto Nazionale Luce, Comitato Organizzatore Del Giochi Della XVII Olimpiade
  67. Le Ciel et la Boue (Sky Above and Mud Beneath) - Arthur Cohn and Rene Lafuite, Producers
  68. 1962

  69. Alvorada (Brazil's Changing Face) - Hugo Niebeling, Producer
  70. Black Fox - Louis Clyde Stoumen, Producer
  71. 1963

  72. Le Maillon et la Chaine (The Link and the Chain) - Paul de Roubaix, Producer
  73. Robert Frost: A Lover's Quarrel with the World - Robert Hughes, Producer
  74. Terminus - Edgar Anstey, Producer
  75. 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)
  76. 1964

  77. The Finest Hours - Jack Le Vien, Producer
  78. Four Days in November - Mel Stuart, Producer
  79. The Human Dutch - Bert Haanstra, Producer
  80. Jacques-Yves Cousteau's World without Sun - Jacques-Yves Cousteau, Producer
  81. Over There, 1914-18 - Jean Aurel, Producer
  82. 1965

  83. The Battle of the Bulge...The Brave Rifles - Laurence E. Mascott, Producer
  84. The Eleanor Roosevelt Story - Sidney Glazier, Producer
  85. The Forth Road Bridge - Peter Mills, Producer
  86. Let My People Go - Marshall Flaum, Producer
  87. To Die in Madrid - Frédéric Rossif, Producer
  88. 1966

  89. The Face of Genius - Alfred R. Kelman, Producer
  90. Helicopter Canada - Peter Jones and Tom Daly, Producers
  91. Le Volcan Interdit (The Forbidden Volcano) - Haroun Tazieff, Producer
  92. The Really Big Family - Alex Grasshoff, Producer
  93. The War Game - Peter Watkins, Producer
  94. 1967

  95. The Anderson Platoon - Pierre Schoendoerffer, Producer
  96. Festival - Murray Lerner, Producer
  97. Harvest - Carroll Ballard, Producer
  98. A King's Story - Jack Le Vien, Producer
  99. A Time for Burning - William C. Jersey, Producer
  100. 1968

  101. A Few Notes on Our Food Problem - James Blue, Producer
  102. Journey into Self - Bill McGaw, Producer
  103. The Legendary Champions - William Cayton, Producer
  104. Other Voices - David H. Sawyer, Producer
  105. Young Americans - Robert Cohn and Alex Grasshoff, Producers
  106. 1969

  107. Arthur Rubinstein - The Love of Life - Bernard Chevry, Producer
  108. Before the Mountain Was Moved - Robert K. Sharpe, Producer
  109. In the Year of the Pig - Emile de Antonio, Producer
  110. The Olympics in Mexico - Comite Organizador de los Juegos de la XIX Olimpiada
  111. The Wolf Men - Irwin Rosten, Producer
  112. 1970

  113. Chariots of the Gods - Dr. Harald Reinl, Producer
  114. Jack Johnson - Jim Jacobs, Producer
  115. King: A Filmed Record...Montgomery to Memphis - Ely Landau, Producer
  116. Say Goodbye - David H. Vowell, Producer
  117. Woodstock - Bob Maurice, Producer (1970; Michael Wadleigh)
  118. 1971

  119. Alaska Wilderness Lake - Alan Landsburg, Producer
  120. The Hellstrom Chronicle - Walon Green, Producer
  121. On Any Sunday - Bruce Brown, Producer
  122. The RA Expeditions - Lennart Ehrenborg and Thor Heyerdahl, Producers
  123. The Sorrow and the Pity [Le Chagrin et la pitié] - Marcel Ophuls, Producer (1969; Marcel Ophüls)
  124. 1972

  125. Marjoe (1972; Sarah Kernochan, Howard Smith)
  126. Ape and Super-Ape - Bert Haanstra, Producer
  127. Malcolm X - Marvin Worth and Arnold Perl, Producers
  128. Manson - Robert Hendrickson and Laurence Merrick, Producers
  129. The Silent Revolution - Eckehard Munck, Producer
  130. 1973

  131. Always a New Beginning - John D. Goodell, Producer
  132. Battle of Berlin - Bengt von zur Muehlen, Producer
  133. The Great American Cowboy - Kieth Merrill, Producer
  134. Journey to the Outer Limits - Alex Grasshoff, Producer
  135. Walls of Fire - Gertrude Ross Marks and Edmund F. Penney, Producers
  136. 1974

  137. Antonia: A Portrait of the Woman - Judy Collins and Jill Godmilow, Producers
  138. The Challenge...A Tribute to Modern Art - Herbert Kline, Producer
  139. The 81st Blow - Jacquot Ehrlich, David Bergman and Haim Gouri, Producers
  140. Hearts and Minds - Peter Davis and Bert Schneider, Producers (1974; Peter Davis)
  141. The Wild and the Brave - Natalie R. Jones and Eugene S. Jones, Producers
  142. 1975

  143. The California Reich - Walter F. Parkes and Keith F. Critchlow, Producers
  144. Fighting for Our Lives - Glen Pearcy, Producer
  145. The Incredible Human Machine - Irwin Rosten, Producer
  146. The Man Who Skied Down Everest - F. R. Crawley, James Hager and Dale Hartleben, Producers
  147. The Other Half of the Sky: A China Memoir - Shirley MacLaine, Producer
  148. 1976

  149. Harlan County, U.S.A. - Barbara Kopple, Producer (1976; Barbara Kopple)
  150. Hollywood On Trial - James Gutman and David Helpern, Jr., Producers
  151. Off the Edge - Michael Firth, Producer
  152. The Milestone Collection: People of the Wind - Anthony Howarth and David Koff, Producers
  153. Volcano: An Inquiry into the Life and Death of Malcolm Lowry - Donald Brittain and Robert Duncan, Producers
  154. 1977

  155. The Children of Theatre Street - Robert Dornhelm and Earle Mack, Producers
  156. High Grass Circus - Bill Brind, Torben Schioler and Tony Ianzelo, Producers
  157. Homage to Chagall--The Colours of Love - Harry Rasky, Producer
  158. Union Maids - James Klein, Julia Reichert and Miles Mogulescu, Producers
  159. Who Are the DeBolts? And Where Did They Get Nineteen Kids? - John Korty, Dan McCann and Warren L. Lockhart, Producers
  160. 1978

  161. The Lovers' Wind - Albert Lamorisse, Producer
  162. Mysterious Castles of Clay - Alan Root, Producer
  163. Raoni - Jean-Pierre Dutilleux, Barry Williams and Michel Gast, Producers
  164. Scared Straight! - Arnold Shapiro, Producer
  165. With Babies and Banners: Story of the Women's Emergency Brigade - Anne Bohlen, Lyn Goldfarb and Lorraine Gray, Producers
  166. 1979

  167. Best Boy - Ira Wohl, Producer
  168. Generation on the Wind - David A. Vassar, Producer
  169. Going the Distance - Paul Cowan and Jacques Bobet, Producers
  170. The Killing Ground - Steve Singer and Tom Priestley, Producers
  171. The War at Home - Glenn Silber and Barry Alexander Brown, Producers
  172. 1980

  173. Agee - Ross Spears, Producer
  174. The Day After Trinity - Jon Else, Producer
  175. From Mao to Mozart: Isaac Stern in China - Murray Lerner, Producer
  176. Front Line - David Bradbury, Producer
  177. The Yellow Star - The Persecution of the Jews in Europe 1933-45 - Bengt von zur Muehlen and Arthur Cohn, Producers
  178. 1981

  179. Against Wind and Tide: A Cuban Odyssey - Suzanne Bauman, Paul Neshamkin and Jim Burroughs, Producers
  180. Ken Burns' America: Brooklyn Bridge - Ken Burns, Producer
  181. Eight Minutes to Midnight: A Portrait of Dr. Helen Caldicott - Mary Benjamin, Susanne Simpson and Boyd Estus, Producers
  182. El Salvador: Another Vietnam - Glenn Silber and Tete Vasconcellos, Producers
  183. Genocide - Arnold Schwartzman and Rabbi Marvin Hier, Producers (Dir: Arnold Schwartzman)
  184. 1982

  185. After the Axe - Sturla Gunnarsson and Steve Lucas, Producers
  186. Ben's Mill - John Karol and Michel Chalufour, Producers
  187. In Our Water - Meg Switzgable, Producer
  188. Just Another Missing Kid - John Zaritsky, Producer
  189. A Portrait of Giselle - Joseph Wishy, Producer
  190. 1983

  191. Children of Darkness - Richard Kotuk and Ara Chekmayan, Producers
  192. First Contact - Bob Connolly and Robin Anderson, Producers
  193. He Makes Me Feel Like Dancin' - Emile Ardolino, Producer
  194. The Profession of Arms - Michael Bryans and Tina Viljoen, Producers
  195. Seeing Red - James Klein and Julia Reichert, Producers
  196. 1984

  197. High Schools - Charles Guggenheim and Nancy Sloss, Producers
  198. In the Name of the People - Alex W. Drehsler and Frank Christopher, Producers
  199. Marlene - Karel Dirka and Zev Braun, Producers
  200. Streetwise - Cheryl McCall, Producer (1984; Martin Bell)
  201. The Times of Harvey Milk - Robert Epstein and Richard Schmiechen, Producers
  202. 1985

  203. Broken Rainbow - Maria Florio and Victoria Mudd, Producers
  204. Las Madres--The Mothers of Plaza de Mayo - Susana Muñoz and Lourdes Portillo, Producers
  205. Soldiers in Hiding - Japhet Asher, Producer
  206. The Statue of Liberty - Ken Burns and Buddy Squires, Producers
  207. Unfinished Business - Steven Okazaki, Producer
  208. 1986

  209. Artie Shaw: Time Is All You've Got - Brigitte Berman, Producer
  210. Chile: Hasta Cuando? - David Bradbury, Producer
  211. Down and Out in America - Joseph Feury and Milton Justice, Producers
  212. Isaac in America: A Journey with Isaac Bashevis Singer - Kirk Simon and Amram Nowak, Producers
  213. Witness to Apartheid - Sharon I. Sopher, Producer
  214. 1987

  215. Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years/Bridge to Freedom 1965 - Callie Crossley and James A. DeVinney, Producers
  216. Hellfire: A Journey from Hiroshima - John Junkerman and John W. Dower, Producers
  217. Radio Bikini - Robert Stone, Producer
  218. A Stitch for Time - Barbara Herbich and Cyril Christo, Producers
  219. The Ten-Year Lunch: The Wit and Legend of the Algonquin Round Table - Aviva Slesin, Producer
  220. 1988

  221. The Cry of Reason - Beyers Naude: An Afrikaner Speaks Out - Robert Bilheimer and Ronald Mix, Producers
  222. Hôtel Terminus (1988; Marcel Ophüls)
  223. Let's Get Lost - Bruce Weber and Nan Bush, Producers
  224. Promises to Keep - Ginny Durrin, Producer
  225. Who Killed Vincent Chin? - Renee Tajima and Christine Choy, Producers
  226. 1989

  227. Adam Clayton Powell - Richard Killberg and Yvonne Smith, Producers (Richard Killberg)
  228. Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt - Robert Epstein and Bill Couturié, Producers
  229. Crack USA: County Under Siege - Vince DiPersio and William Guttentag, Producers
  230. For All Mankind - Al Reinert and Betsy Broyles Breier, Producers (Dir: Al Reinert)
  231. Super Chief: The Life and Legacy of Earl Warren - Judith Leonard and Bill Jersey, Producers
  232. 1990

  233. American Dream - Barbara Kopple and Arthur Cohn, Producers
  234. Berkeley in the Sixties - Mark Kitchell, Producer
  235. Building Bombs - Mark Mori and Susan Robinson, Producers
  236. Forever Activists: Stories from the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade - Judith Montell, Producer
  237. Waldo Salt: A Screenwriter's Journey - Robert Hillmann and Eugene Corr, Producers
  238. 1991

  239. Death on the Job - Vince DiPersio and William Guttentag, Producers
  240. Doing Time: Life Inside the Big House - Alan Raymond and Susan Raymond, Producers
  241. In the Shadow of the Stars (1991; Allie Light, Irving Saraf)
  242. The Restless Conscience: Resistance to Hitler Within Germany 1933-1945 - Hava Kohav Beller, Producer
  243. Wild by Law - Lawrence Hott and Diane Garey, Producers
  244. 1992

  245. Changing Our Minds: The Story of Dr. Evelyn Hooker - David Haugland, Producer
  246. Fires of Kuwait - Sally Dundas, Producer
  247. Liberators: Fighting on Two Fronts in World War II - William Miles and Nina Rosenblum, Producers
  248. Music for the Movies: Bernard Herrmann - Margaret Smilow and Roma Baran, Producers
  249. The Panama Deception - Barbara Trent and David Kasper, Producers
  250. 1993

  251. The Broadcast Tapes of Dr. Peter - David Paperny, Arthur Ginsberg
  252. Children of Fate: Life and Death in a Sicilian Family - Susan Todd, Andrew Young
  253. For Better or For Worse - David Collier, Betsy Thompson
  254. I Am a Promise: The Children of Stanton Elementary School - Susan Raymond, Alan Raymond
  255. The War Room - D. A. Pennebaker, Chris Hegedus
  256. 1994

  257. Complaints of a Dutiful Daughter - Deborah Hoffmann
  258. D-Day Remembered - Charles Guggenheim
  259. Freedom on My Mind - Connie Field, Marilyn Mulford
  260. A Great Day in Harlem - Jean Bach
  261. Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision - Freida Lee Mock, Terry Sanders
  262. 1995

  263. Anne Frank Remembered - Jon Blair
  264. The Battle over Citizen Kane - Thomas Lennon, Michael Epstein
  265. Fiddlefest--Roberta Tzavaras and Her East Harlem Violin Program - Allan Miller, Walter Scheuer
  266. Hank Aaron: Chasing the Dream - Mike Tollin, Fredric Golding
  267. Troublesome Creek: A Midwestern - Jeanne Jordan, Steven Ascher
  268. 1996

  269. The Line King: The Al Hirschfeld Story - Susan W. Dryfoos
  270. Mandela - Jo Menell, Angus Gibson
  271. Suzanne Farrell: Elusive Muse - Anne Belle, Deborah Dickson
  272. Tell the Truth and Run: George Seldes and the American Press - Rick Goldsmith
  273. When We Were Kings - Leon Gast, David Sonenberg
  274. 1997

  275. Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life - Michael Paxton
  276. Colors Straight Up - Michèle Ohayon, Julia Schachter
  277. 4 Little Girls - Spike Lee, Sam Pollard
  278. The Long Way Home - Rabbi Marvin Hier, Richard Trank (Dir: Mark Jonathan Harris)
  279. Waco: The Rules of Engagement - Dan Gifford, William Gazecki
  280. 1998

  281. Paul Taylor: Dancemaker - Matthew Diamond, Jerry Kupfer
  282. The Farm: USA, Angola - Jonathan Stack, Liz Garbus
  283. The Last Days - James Moll, Ken Lipper
  284. Lenny Bruce: Swear To Tell the Truth - Robert B. Weide
  285. Regret to Inform - Barbara Sonneborn, Janet Cole
  286. 1999

  287. Buena Vista Social Club (1999; Wim Wenders)
  288. Genghis Blues - Roko Belic, Adrian Belic
  289. On the Ropes - Nanette Burstein, Brett Morgen
  290. One Day in September - Arthur Cohn, Kevin Macdonald
  291. Speaking in Strings: Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg - Paola di Florio, Lilibet Foster
  292. 2000

  293. Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport - Mark Jonathan Harris, Deborah Oppenheimer
  294. Legacy - Tod Lending
  295. Long Night's Journey into Day - Frances Reid, Deborah Hoffmann
  296. Scottsboro: An American Tragedy - Barak Goodman, Daniel Anker
  297. Sound and Fury - Josh Aronson, Roger Weisberg
  298. 2001

  299. Children Underground - Edet Belzberg
  300. LaLee's Kin: The Legacy of Cotton - Susan Froemke, Deborah Dickson
  301. Murder on a Sunday Morning - Jean-Xavier de Lestrade, Denis Poncet
  302. Promises - Justine Shapiro, B.Z. Goldberg
  303. War Photographer - Christian Frei
  304. 2002

  305. Bowling for Columbine (2002; Michael Moore)
  306. Daughter from Danang - Gail Dolgin, Vicente Frances
  307. Prisoner Of Paradise (2002; Malcolm Clarke, Stuart Sender)
  308. Spellbound - Jeffrey Blitz, Sean Welch
  309. Winged Migration (2001; Jacques Perrin, Jacques Cluzaud, Michel Debats)
  310. 2003

  311. Balseros - Carlos Bosch and Josep Maria Domenech
  312. Capturing the Friedmans - Andrew Jarecki and Marc Smerling
  313. The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons From the Life of Robert S. McNamara - Errol Morris and Michael Williams (2003; Errol Morris)
  314. My Architect: A Son's Journey - Nathaniel Kahn and Susan R. Behr
  315. The Weather Underground - Sam Green and Bill Siegel
  316. 2004

  317. Born into Brothels - Ross Kauffman and Zana Briski
  318. Story of the Weeping Camel [Die Geschichte vom weinenden Kamel] (2003; Byambasuren Davaa, Luigi Falorni)
  319. Super Size Me (2004; Morgan Spurlock)
  320. Tupac: Resurrection - Lauren Lazin and Karolyn Ali
  321. Twist of Faith - Kirby Dick and Eddie Schmidt
  322. 2005

  323. Darwin's Nightmare - Hubert Sauper
  324. Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room - Alex Gibney and Jason Kliot
  325. March of the Penguins [La marche de l'empereur] (2005; Luc Jacquet)
  326. Murderball - Henry-Alex Rubin and Dana Adam Shapiro (Dirs: Henry Alex Rubin, Dana Adam Shapiro)
  327. Street Fight - Marshall Curry
  328. 2006

  329. Deliver Us From Evil (2006;) - Amy J. Berg; Amy J. Berg,Matthew Cooke, Frank Donner
  330. An Inconvenient Truth (2006;) - Davis Guggenheim; Lawrence Bender, Scott Z. Burns, Laurie David
  331. Iraq In Fragments (2006;) - James Longley; John Sinno, James Longley
  332. Jesus Camp (2006;) - Heidi Ewing; Rachel Grady
  333. My Country, My Country (2006;) - Laura Poitras
  334. 2007

  335. Taxi to the Dark Side (2007) - Alex Gibney; Eva Orner
  336. No End in Sight (2007; ) - Charles Ferguson; Audrey Marrs
  337. Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience (2007; ) - Richard Robbins
  338. Sicko (2007; ) - Michael Moore; Meghan O'Hara
  339. War Dance (2007; ) - Andrea Nix; Sean Fine
  340. 2008

  341. Man on Wire (2008) - James Marsh; Simon Chinn
  342. The Betrayal - Nerakhoon (2008; ) - Ellen Kuras; Thavisouk Phrasavath
  343. Encounters at the End of the World (2007; ) - Werner Herzog; Henry Kaiser
  344. The Garden (2008; ) - Scott Hamilton Kennedy
  345. Trouble the Water (2008; ) - Tia Lessin; Carl Deal
  346. 2009

  347. The Cove (2009) - Louie Psihoyos, Fisher Stevens
  348. Burma VJ: Reporter i et lukket land [Burma VJ: Reporting from a closed land] (2008; ) - Anders Østergaard, Lise Lense-Møller
  349. Food, Inc. (2008; ) - Robert Kenner, Elise Pearlstein
  350. The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and The Pentagon Papers (2009; ) - Judith Ehrlich, Rick Goldsmith
  351. Which Way Home (2009; ) - Rebecca Cammisa
  352. 2010

  353. Inside Job - Charles Ferguson, Audrey Marrs
  354. Exit through the Gift Shop - Banksy D'Cruz, Jaimie D'Cruz
  355. Gasland - Josh Fox, Trish Adlesic
  356. Restrepo - Tim Hetherington, Sebastian Junger
  357. Waste Land - Lucy Walker, Angus Aynsley
  358. 2011

  359. Hell and Back Again -
  360. If a Tree Falls -
  361. Paradise Lost 3 - Purgatory
  362. Pina
  363. Undefeated
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