Academy Award for Documentary Feature

Films are listed by the year they received the Academy Award for Documentary Feature; the year of production follows the title in parentheses. There is sometimes a gap of more than a year between a film's production and its award, which is often the result of the film's unavailability in translation.

• 1944 Desert Victory
• 1945 The Fighting Lady
• 1946 The True Glory
• 1947 none given
• 1948 Design for Death
• 1949 The Secret Land
• 1950 Daybreak in Udi
• 1951 The Titan: Story of Michelangelo
• 1952 Kon-Tiki
• 1953 The Sea Around Us
• 1954 The Living Desert
• 1955 The Vanishing Prairie
• 1956 Helen Keller in Her Story
• 1957 The Silent World
• 1958 Albert Schweitzer
• 1959 White Wilderness
• 1960 Serengeti Shall Not Die
• 1961 The Horse with the Flying Tail
• 1962 Sky Above and Mud Beneath
• 1963 Black Fox: The Rise and Fall of Adolf Hitler
• 1964 Robert Frost: A Lover's Quarrel With the World
• 1965 Jacques-Yves Cousteau's World Without Sun
• 1966 The Eleanor Roosevelt Story
• 1967 The War Game
• 1968 The nderson Platoon
• 1969 Journey Into Self
• 1970 Arthur Rubinstein - The Love of Life
• 1971 Woodstock
• 1972 The Hellstrom Chronicle
• 1973 Marjoe
• 1974 The Great American Cowboy
• 1975 Hearts and Minds
• 1976 The Man Who Skied Down Everest
• 1977 Harlan County, U.S.A
• 1978 Who Are the Debolts? And Where Did They Get Nineteen Kids
• 1979 Scared Straight
• 1980 Best Boy
• 1981 From Mao to Mozart: Isaac Stern in China
• 1982 Genocide
• 1983 Just Another Missing Kid
• 1984 He Makes Me Feel Like Dancin'
• 1985 The Times of Harvey Milk
• 1986 Broken Rainbow
• 1987 (tie):
  • Artie Shaw: Time Is All You've Got
  • Down and Out in America
• 1988 The Ten-Year Lunch: The Wit and Legend of the Algonquin Round Table
• 1989 Hôtel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie
• 1990 Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt
• 1991 American Dream
• 1992 In the Shadow of the Stars
• 1993 The Panama Deception
• 1994 I Am a Promise: The Children of Stanton Elementary School
• 1995 Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision
• 1996 Anne Frank Remembered
• 1997 When We Were Kings
• 1998 The Long Way Home
• 1999 The Last Days
• 2000 One Day in September
• 2001 Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport
• 2002 Bowling for Columbine - Alliance Atlantis Communications, Dog Eat Dog Films, Salter Street Films International, United Broadcasting Inc., VIF Babelsberger Filmproduktion GmbH & Co. Zweite KG (VIF 2) - Michael Moore, Charles Bishop, Jim Czarnecki, Michael Donovan, Kathleen Glynn producers - Michael Moore director
  • Daughter From Danang - Gail Dolgin producer - Gail Dolgin, Vicente Franco directors
  • Le Peuple migrateur - Bac Films, Centre National de la Cinématographie (CNC), Eyescreen S.r.l., Filmstiftung Nordrhein-Westfalen, France 2 Cinéma, France 3 Cinéma, Galatée Films, Le Studio Canal+, Les Productions JMH, Les Productions de la Guéville, Pandora Filmproduktion GmbH, Télévision Suisse-Romande (TSR), Wanda Visión S.A., Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR) - Jacques Perrin, Christophe Barratier producers - Jacques Perrin director
  • Prisoner of Paradise - Malcolm Clarke, Stuart Sender directors
  • ''Spellbound - Blitz/Welch - Jeffrey Blitz, two persons named Sean Welch producers - Jeffrey Blitz director

See also : Academy Awards