| Year |
Documentary |
| 1942 |
Battle of Midway, Kokoda Front Line, Moscow Strikes Back & Prelude
To War |
| 1943 |
Desert Victory |
| 1944 |
The Fighting Lady |
| 1945 |
The True Glory |
| 1946 |
none given |
| 1947 |
Design for Death |
| 1948 |
The Secret Land |
| 1949 |
Daybreak in Udi |
| 1950 |
The Titan: Story of Michelangelo |
| 1951 |
Kon-Tiki |
| 1952 |
The Sea Around Us |
| 1953 |
The Living Desert |
| 1954 |
The Vanishing Prairie |
| 1955 |
Helen Keller in Her Story |
| 1956 |
The Silent World |
| 1957 |
Albert Schweitzer |
| 1958 |
White Wilderness |
| 1959 |
Serengeti Shall Not Die |
| 1960 |
The Horse with the Flying Tail |
| 1961 |
Sky Above and Mud Beneath |
| 1962 |
Black Fox: The Rise and Fall of Adolf Hitler |
| 1963 |
Robert Frost: A Lover's Quarrel With the World |
| 1964 |
Jacques-Yves Cousteau's World Without Sun |
| 1965 |
The Eleanor Roosevelt Story |
| 1966 |
The War Game |
| 1967 |
The Anderson Platoon |
| 1968 |
Journey Into Self |
| 1969 |
Arthur Rubinstein - The Love of Life |
| 1970 |
Woodstock |
| 1971 |
The Hellstrom Chronicle |
| 1972 |
Marjoe |
| 1973 |
The Great American Cowboy |
| 1974 |
Hearts and Minds |
| 1975 |
The Man Who Skied Down Everest |
| 1976 |
Harlan County, U.S.A., |
| 1977 |
Who Are the Debolts? And Where Did They Get Nineteen Kids? |
| 1978 |
Scared Straight! |
| 1979 |
Best Boy |
| 1980 |
From Mao to Mozart: Isaac Stern in China |
| 1981 |
Genocide |
| 1982 |
Just Another Missing Kid |
| 1983 |
He Makes Me Feel Like Dancin' |
| 1984 |
The Times of Harvey Milk |
| 1985 |
Broken Rainbow |
| 1986 |
Artie Shaw: Time Is All You've Got, Down and Out in America
|
| 1987 |
The Ten-Year Lunch: The Wit and Legend of the Algonquin Round Table |
| 1988 |
Hôtel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie |
| 1989 |
Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt |
| 1990 |
American Dream, |
| 1991 |
In the Shadow of the Stars |
| 1992 |
The Panama Deception |
| 1993 |
I Am a Promise: The Children of Stanton Elementary School |
| 1994 |
Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision |
| 1995 |
Anne Frank Remembered |
| 1996 |
When We Were Kings |
| 1997 |
The Long Way Home |
| 1998 |
The Last Days |
| 1999 |
One Day in September |
| 2000 |
Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport |
| 2001 |
Murder on a Sunday Morning |
| 2002 |
Bowling for Columbine |
| 2003 |
The Fog of War |
| 2004 |
Born into Brothels |
| 2005 |
March of the Penguins |
| 2006 |
An Inconvenient Truth |
| 2007 |
Taxi to the Dark Side |
| 2008 |
Man on Wire |
