O.J.: Made in America
- Year:
- 2016
- Director:
- Ezra Edelman
Best Documentary Feature
Harlan County U.S.A.
- Year:
- 1977
- Director:
- Barbara Kopple
Anne Frank Remembered
- Year:
- 1995
- Director:
- Jon Blair
The Cove
- Year:
- 2009
- Director:
- Louie Psihoyos
The Fog of War
- Year:
- 2003
- Director:
- Errol Morris
Hearts and Minds
- Year:
- 1974
- Director:
- Peter Davis
Icarus
- Year:
- 2017
- Director:
- Bryan Fogel
American Dream
- Year:
- 1990
- Director:
- Barbara Kopple, Cathy Caplan, Thomas Haneke
Searching for Sugar Man
- Year:
- 2012
- Director:
- Malik Bendjelloul
Inside Job
- Year:
- 2010
- Director:
- Charles Ferguson
Murder on a Sunday Morning
- Year:
- 2001
- Director:
- Jean-Xavier de Lestrade
Citizenfour
- Year:
- 2014
- Director:
- Laura Poitras
One Day in September
- Year:
- 1999
- Director:
- Kevin Macdonald
20 Days in Mariupol
- Year:
- 2023
- Director:
- Mstyslav Chernov
Free Solo
- Year:
- 2018
- Director:
- Jimmy Chin, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi
Born Into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kids
- Year:
- 2004
- Director:
- Zana Briski, Ross Kauffman
Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport
- Year:
- 2000
- Director:
- Mark Jonathan Harris
Taxi to the Dark Side
- Year:
- 2008
- Director:
- Alex Gibney
Undefeated
- Year:
- 2011
- Director:
- Daniel Lindsay, T.J. Martin
My Octopus Teacher
- Year:
- 2020
- Director:
- Pippa Ehrlich, James Reed
An Inconvenient Truth
- Year:
- 2006
- Director:
- Davis Guggenheim
Amy
- Year:
- 2015
- Director:
- Asif Kapadia
The Living Desert
- Year:
- 1953
- Director:
- James Algar
20 Feet from Stardom
- Year:
- 2013
- Director:
- Morgan Neville
Navalny
- Year:
- 2022
- Director:
- Daniel Roher
Best Boy
- Year:
- 1979
- Director:
- Ira Wohl
Hôtel Terminus
- Year:
- 1988
- Director:
- Marcel Ophüls
Bowling for Columbine
- Year:
- 2002
- Director:
- Michael Moore
Down and Out in America
- Year:
- 1986
- Director:
- Lee Grant
American Factory
- Year:
- 2019
- Director:
- Steven Bognar, Julia Reichert
Marjoe
- Year:
- 1972
- Director:
- Sarah Kernochan, Howard Smith
Artie Shaw: Time Is All You've Got
- Year:
- 1985
- Director:
- Brigitte Berman
The Long Way Home
- Year:
- 1997
- Director:
- Mark Jonathan Harris
Albert Schweitzer
- Year:
- 1957
- Director:
- Jerome Hill
The Anderson Platoon
- Year:
- 1967
- Director:
- Pierre Schoendoerffer
Arthur Rubinstein: The Love of Life
- Year:
- 1969
- Director:
- Gérard Patris, François Reichenbach
Black Fox
- Year:
- 1995
- Director:
- Steven Hilliard Stern
Broken Rainbow
- Year:
- 1985
- Director:
- Victoria Mudd
Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt
- Year:
- 1989
- Director:
- Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman
Design for Death
- Year:
- 1948
- Director:
- Richard Fleischer
The Eleanor Roosevelt Story
- Year:
- 1965
- Director:
- Richard Kaplan
From Mao to Mozart: Isaac Stern in China
- Year:
- 1981
- Director:
- Murray Lerner
He Makes Me Feel Like Dancin'
- Year:
- 1983
- Director:
- Emile Ardolino
The Horse with the Flying Tail
- Year:
- 1960
- Director:
- Larry Lansburgh
I Am a Promise: The Children of Stanton Elementary School
- Year:
- 1993
- Director:
- Susan Raymond
In the Shadow of the Stars
- Year:
- 1991
- Director:
- Allie Light, Irving Saraf
Journey Into Self
- Year:
- 1969
- Director:
- Bill McGaw
Just Another Missing Kid
- Year:
- 1982
- Director:
- John Zaritsky
Kokoda Front Line!
- Year:
- 1942
- Director:
- N/A
Kon-Tiki
- Year:
- 1950
- Director:
- Thor Heyerdahl
Moscow Strikes Back
- Year:
- 1942
- Director:
- Ilya Kopalin, Leonid Varlamov
A Prelude to War: Star Wars Fan Film
- Year:
- 2017
- Director:
- Tim Everett
Scared Straight!
- Year:
- 1978
- Director:
- Arnold Shapiro
Serengeti
- Year:
- 1959
- Director:
- Bernhard Grzimek
The Sky Above, the Mud Below
- Year:
- 1961
- Director:
- Pierre-Dominique Gaisseau
The Ten Year Lunch: The Wit and Legend of the Algonquin Roundtable
- Year:
- 1987
- Director:
- Aviva Slesin
The Titan: Story of Michelangelo
- Year:
- 1950
- Director:
- Robert J. Flaherty, Richard Lyford, Curt Oertel
The Unconquered
- Year:
- 1954
- Director:
- Nancy Hamilton
Who Are the DeBolts? and Where Did They Get Nineteen Kids?
- Year:
- 1977
- Director:
- John Korty
The True Glory
- Year:
- 1945
- Director:
- Garson Kanin, Carol Reed
The Man Who Skied Down Everest
- Year:
- 1975
- Director:
- Bruce Nyznik
Desert Victory
- Year:
- 1943
- Director:
- Roy Boulting, David MacDonald
The Secret Land
- Year:
- 1948
- Director:
- N/A
The Hellstrom Chronicle
- Year:
- 1971
- Director:
- Walon Green, Ed Spiegel
The Fighting Lady
- Year:
- 1944
- Director:
- Edward Steichen, William Wyler
The Great American Cowboy
- Year:
- 1973
- Director:
- Kieth Merrill
Mr. Nobody Against Putin
- Year:
- 2025
- Director:
- David Borenstein, Pavel Ilyich Talankin
Genocide
- Year:
- 1982
- Director:
- Arnold Schwartzman
Robert Frost: A Lover's Quarrel with the World
- Year:
- 1963
- Director:
- Shirley Clarke
Daybreak in Udi
- Year:
- 1949
- Director:
- Terry Bishop
White Wilderness
- Year:
- 1958
- Director:
- James Algar
The Panama Deception
- Year:
- 1992
- Director:
- Barbara Trent
The Silent World
- Year:
- 1956
- Director:
- Jacques-Yves Cousteau, Louis Malle
The Times of Harvey Milk
- Year:
- 1984
- Director:
- Rob Epstein
The Last Days
- Year:
- 1998
- Director:
- James Moll
The Battle of Midway
- Year:
- 1942
- Director:
- John Ford
The Vanishing Prairie
- Year:
- 1954
- Director:
- James Algar
World Without Sun
- Year:
- 1964
- Director:
- Jacques-Yves Cousteau
Man on Wire
- Year:
- 2008
- Director:
- James Marsh
The Sea Around Us
- Year:
- 1953
- Director:
- Irwin Allen
Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision
- Year:
- 1995
- Director:
- Freida Lee Mock
The War Game
- Year:
- 1966
- Director:
- Peter Watkins
March of the Penguins
- Year:
- 2005
- Director:
- Luc Jacquet
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
- Year:
- 2021
- Director:
- Questlove
When We Were Kings
- Year:
- 1996
- Director:
- Leon Gast
No Other Land
- Year:
- 2024
- Director:
- Yuval Abraham, Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal
Woodstock
- Year:
- 1970
- Director:
- Michael Wadleigh