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Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject
This is a list of films that have received an Oscar and nomination for best documentary short subject. Following the Academy's practice, the year listed for each film is the year of release: the awards are announced and distributed in March of the following year.List of winners
| Year | Documentary |
| 1941 | Churchill's Island |
| 1942 | none given |
| 1943 | December 7th |
| 1944 | With the Marines at Tarawa |
| 1945 | Hitler Lives? |
| 1946 | Seeds of Destiny |
| 1947 | First Steps |
| 1948 | Toward Independence |
| 1949 | A Chance To Live - Richard de Rochemont, So Much for So Little |
| 1950 | Why Korea? |
| 1951 | Benjy |
| 1952 | Neighbours |
| 1953 | The Alaskan Eskimo |
| 1954 | Thursday's Children |
| 1955 | Men against the Arctic |
| 1956 | The True Story of the Civil War |
| 1957 | none given |
| 1958 | Ama Girls |
| 1959 | Glass |
| 1960 | Giuseppina |
| 1961 | Project Hope |
| 1962 | Dylan Thomas |
| 1963 | Chagall |
| 1964 | Nine from Little Rock |
| 1965 | To Be Alive! |
| 1966 | A Year Toward Tomorrow |
| 1967 | The Redwoods |
| 1968 | Why Man Creates |
| 1969 | Czechoslovakia 1968 |
| 1970 | Interviews with My Lai Veterans |
| 1971 | Sentinels of Silence |
| 1972 | This Tiny World |
| 1973 | Princeton: A Search for Answers |
| 1974 | Don't |
| 1975 | The End of the Game |
| 1976 | Number Our Days |
| 1977 | Gravity Is My Enemy |
| 1978 | The Flight of the Gossamer Condor |
| 1979 | Paul Robeson: Tribute to an Artist |
| 1980 | Karl Hess: Toward Liberty |
| 1981 | Close Harmony |
| 1982 | If You Love This Planet |
| 1983 | Flamenco at 5:15 |
| 1984 | The Stone Carvers |
| 1985 | Witness to War: Dr. Charlie Clements |
| 1986 | Women--for America, for the World |
| 1987 | Young at Heart |
| 1988 | You Don't Have to Die |
| 1989 | The Johnstown Flood |
| 1990 | Days of Waiting |
| 1991 | Deadly Deception: General Electric, Nuclear Weapons and Our Environment |
| 1992 | Educating Peter |
| 1993 | Defending Our Lives |
| 1994 | A Time for Justice |
| 1995 | One Survivor Remembers |
| 1996 | Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O'Brien |
| 2000 | Big Mama |
| 2001 | Thoth |
| 2002 | Twin Towers |
| 2003 | Chernobyl Heart |
| 2004 | Mighty Times: The Children's March |
| 2005 | A Note of Triumph: The Golden Age of Norman Corwin |
| 2006 | The Blood of Yingzhou District |
| 2007 | Freeheld |
| 2008 | Smile Pinki |
