| Winners of the Academy Award™ for the Best Documentary (Feature) |
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Since 1927, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has presented the Oscar®, the most prestigious honor a film can attain as voted on by other filmmakers.
Below is a list of Best Documentary (Feature) winners. Titles carried in our Online Catalog are linked; simply click on the title to see the description or add the title to your list. Other titles may be available by special order. Please contact our customer service department at 800-843-3620 to inquire about a special order.
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| Year |
Winners |
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| 2007 |
Taxi to the Dark Side |
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Ratatouille |
| 2007 |
Taxi to the Dark Side |
| 2006 |
Happy Feet |
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Inconvenient Truth, An |
| 2006 |
Happy Feet |
| 2005 |
March of the Penguins |
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March of the Penguins |
| 2005 |
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were Rabbit |
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Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were Rabbit |
| 2004 |
Born Into Brothels |
| 2003 |
The Fog of War |
| 2002 |
Bowling for Columbine |
| 2001 |
Murder on a Sunday Morning |
| 2000 |
Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport |
| 1999 |
One Day in September |
| 1998 |
The Last Days |
| 1997 |
The Long Way Home |
| 1996 |
When We Were Kings |
| 1995 |
Anne Frank Remembered |
| 1994 |
Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision |
| 1993 |
I Am a Promise: The Children of Stanton Elementary School |
| 1992 |
The Panama Deception |
| 1991 |
In the Shadow of the Stars |
| 1990 |
American Dream |
| 1989 |
Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt |
| 1988 |
Hotel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie |
| 1987 |
The Ten-Year Lunch: The Wit and Legend of the Algonquin Round Table |
| 1986 |
Artie Shaw: Time Is All You've Got |
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Down and Out in America |
| 1985 |
Broken Rainbow |
| 1984 |
The Times of Harvey Milk |
| 1983 |
He Makes Me Feel Like Dancin' |
| 1982 |
Just Another Missing Kid |
| 1981 |
Genocide |
| 1980 |
From Mao to Mozart: Isaac Stern in China |
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From Mao to Mozart: Isaac Stern in China |
| 1979 |
Best Boy |
| 1978 |
Scared Straight! |
| 1977 |
Who Are the Debolts? And Where Did They Get Nineteen Kids? |
| 1976 |
Harlan County U.S.A. |
| 1975 |
The Man Who Skied Down Everest |
| 1974 |
Hearts and Minds |
| 1973 |
The Great American Cowboy |
| 1972 |
Marjoe |
| 1971 |
The Hellstrom Chronicle |
| 1970 |
Woodstock |
| 1969 |
Arthur Rubinstein - The Love of Life |
| 1968 |
Journey Into Self |
| 1967 |
The Anderson Platoon |
| 1966 |
The War Game |
| 1965 |
The Eleanor Roosevelt Story |
| 1964 |
Jacques-Yves Cousteau's World Without Sun |
| 1963 |
Robert Frost: A Lover's Quarrel With the World |
| 1962 |
Black Fox: The Rise and Fall of Adolf Hitler |
| 1961 |
Le Ciel Et La Boue (Sky Above and Mud Beneath) |
| 1960 |
The Horse with the Flying Tail |
| 1959 |
Serengeti Shall Not Die |
| 1958 |
White Wilderness |
| 1957 |
Albert Schweitzer |
| 1956 |
The Silent World |
| 1955 |
Helen Keller: In Her Story |
| 1954 |
The Vanishing Prairie |
| 1953 |
The Living Desert |
| 1952 |
The Sea Around Us |
| 1951 |
Kon-Tiki |
| 1950 |
The Titan: Story of Michelangelo |
| 1949 |
Daybreak in Udi |
| 1948 |
The Secret Land |
| 1947 |
Design for Death |
| 1946 |
Seeds of Destiny |
| 1945 |
The True Glory |
| 1944 |
The Fighting Lady |
| 1943 |
Desert Victory |
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