Documentary Feature Academy Awards 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 -- Marshall Flaum, Producer
  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
  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 -- Marcel Ophuls, Producer
  124. 1972

  125. Ape and Super-Ape -- Bert Haanstra, Producer
  126. Malcolm X -- Marvin Worth and Arnold Perl, Producers
  127. Manson -- Robert Hendrickson and Laurence Merrick, Producers
  128. Marjoe -- Howard Smith and Sarah Kernochan, 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
  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 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
  150. Hollywood On Trial -- James Gutman and David Helpern, Jr., Producers
  151. Off the Edge -- Michael Firth, Producer
  152. 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. 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
  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
  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. Hotel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie -- Marcel Ophuls, Producer
  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
  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
  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 -- Allie Light and Irving Saraf, Producers
  242. The Restless Conscience -- 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 -- 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
  279. Waco: The Rules of Engagement -- Dan Gifford, William Gazecki
  280. 1998

  281. Dancemaker -- Matthew Diamond, Jerry Kupfer
  282. The Farm: Angola, U.S.A. -- 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 -- Wim Wenders, Ulrich Felsberg
  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 -- 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 -- Michael Moore, Michael Donovan
  306. Daughter from Danang -- Gail Dolgin, Vicente Franco
  307. Prisoner of Paradise -- Malcolm Clarke, Stuart Sender
  308. Spellbound -- Jeffrey Blitz, Sean Welch
  309. Winged Migration -- Jacques Perrin
  310. 2003

  311. Balseros -- Carlos Bosch and Josep Maria Domenech
  312. Capturing the Friedmans -- Andrew Jarecki and Marc Smerling
  313. The Fog of War -- Errol Morris and Michael Williams
  314. My Architect -- 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. The Story of the Weeping Camel -- Luigi Falorni and Byambasuren Davaa
  319. Super Size Me -- 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 -- Luc Jacquet and Yves Darondeau
  326. Murderball -- Henry-Alex Rubin and Dana Adam Shapiro
  327. Street Fight -- Marshall Curry
  328. 2006

  329. Deliver Us From Evil
  330. An Inconvenient Truth
  331. Iraq In Fragments
  332. Jesus Camp
  333. My Country, My Country
  334. 2007

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

in bold are winners

I'd recommend you to watch The War Game. Tough, but a must-see. And not really a documentary feature anyway...

thx for the recommendation