The documentary short film category at the Academy Awards has a rich history spanning over seven decades, with the first award given out in 1942. Since then, this category has provided a platform for filmmakers to shed light on pressing social issues, share remarkable true stories, and showcase the human experience in all its complexity. From groundbreaking exposés to intimate character studies, the documentary shorts have consistently pushed the boundaries of storytelling and raised awareness about the world around us. As we delve into the history of documentary short films at the Oscars, we'll explore the most notable winners, trends, and milestones that have shaped this prestigious category.
2020s
2026 (98th) · Christalyn Hampton, Geeta Gandbhir · United States
2026 (98th) · Alison McAlpine · Canada
2026 (98th) · Hilla Medalia, Sheila Nevins · Israel, United States
2026 (98th) · Craig Renaud, Juan Arredondo · United States
2026 (98th) · Joshua Seftel · United States
The Only Girl in the Orchestra 🏆 Winner
2025 (97th) · Molly O'Brien · USA
Instruments of a Beating Heart
2025 (97th) · Ema Ryan Yamazaki · Japan/USA
▶ Watch on NYT
Incident
2025 (97th) · Bill Morrison · USA
▶ Watch on Vimeo
I Am Ready, Warden
2025 (97th) · Smriti Mundhra · USA
Death by Numbers
2025 (97th) · Sam Fuentes, Ivy Schamis · USA
The Last Repair Shop 🏆 Winner
2024 (96th) · Ben Proudfoot, Kris Bowers · USA
The Barber of Little Rock
2024 (96th) · John Hoffman, Christine Turner · USA
▶ Watch on YouTube
The ABCs of Book Banning
2024 (96th) · Sheila Nevins, Trish Adlesic · USA
▶ Watch on YouTube
Nai Nai & Wai Po
2024 (96th) · Sean Wang · USA
Island in Between
2024 (96th) · S. Leo Chiang, Jean Tsien · USA/Taiwan
The Martha Mitchell Effect
2023 (95th) · Anne Alvergue, Beth Levison · USA
The Elephant Whisperers 🏆 Winner
2023 (95th) · Kartiki Gonsalves · India
Stranger at the Gate
2023 (95th) · Joshua Seftel · USA
▶ Watch on YouTube
How Do You Measure a Year?
2023 (95th) · Jay Rosenblatt · USA
Haulout
2023 (95th) · Evgenia Arbugaeva, Maxim Arbugaev · UK/USA
▶ Watch on YouTube
When We Were Bullies
2022 (94th) · Jay Rosenblatt · USA
Three Songs for Benazir
2022 (94th) · Gulistan Mirzaei, Elizabeth Mirzaei · USA/Afghanistan
The Queen of Basketball 🏆 Winner
2022 (94th) · Ben Proudfoot · USA
▶ Watch on NYT
Lead Me Home
2022 (94th) · Pedro Kos, Jon Shenk · USA
Audible
2022 (94th) · Matt Ogens · USA
Hunger Ward
2021 (93th) · Skye Fitzgerald · USA/Yemen
▶ Watch on Pluto TV
Do Not Split
2021 (93th) · Anders Hammer · Norway/USA
▶ Watch on YouTube
Colette 🏆 Winner
2021 (93th) · Anthony Giacchino · USA/France
▶ Watch on YouTube
A Love Song for Latasha
2021 (93th) · Sophia Nahli Allison · USA
A Concerto Is a Conversation
2021 (93th) · Ben Proudfoot, Kris Bowers · USA
▶ Watch on NYT
Walk Run Cha-Cha
2020 (92th) · Laura Nix · USA
St. Louis Superman
2020 (92th) · Smriti Mundhra, Sami Khan · USA
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Life Overtakes Me
2020 (92th) · Kristine Samuelson, John Haptas · Sweden/USA
Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (If You're a Girl) 🏆 Winner
2020 (92th) · Carol Dysinger · UK/Afghanistan
In the Absence
2020 (92th) · Yi Seung-jun · South Korea/USA
▶ Watch on YouTube
2010s
Period. End of Sentence. 🏆 Winner
2019 (91th) · Rayka Zehtabchi · USA/India
▶ Watch on YouTube
Lifeboat
2019 (91th) · Skye Fitzgerald · USA
▶ Watch on YouTube
End Game
2019 (91th) · Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman · USA
Black Sheep
2019 (91th) · Ed Perkins · UK
▶ Watch on YouTube
A Night at the Garden
2019 (91th) · Marshall Curry · USA
▶ Watch on YouTube
Traffic Stop
2018 (90th) · Kate Davis, David Heilbroner · USA
▶ Watch on Plex
Knife Skills
2018 (90th) · Thomas Lennon · USA
▶ Watch on New Yorker
Heroin(e)
2018 (90th) · Elaine McMillion Sheldon · USA
Heaven Is a Traffic Jam on the 405 🏆 Winner
2018 (90th) · Frank Stiefel · USA
Edith+Eddie
2018 (90th) · Laura Checkoway · USA
Watani: My Homeland
2017 (89th) · Marcel Mettelsiefen · UK/Germany/Syria
The White Helmets 🏆 Winner
2017 (89th) · Orlando von Einsiedel · UK/Syria
Joe's Violin
2017 (89th) · Kahane Cooperman · USA
Extremis
2017 (89th) · Dan Krauss · USA
4.1 Miles
2017 (89th) · Daphne Matziaraki · USA/Greece
▶ Watch on NYT
Last Day of Freedom
2016 (88th) · Dee Hibbert-Jones, Nomi Talisman · USA
Claude Lanzmann: Spectres of the Shoah
2016 (88th) · Adam Benzine · UK
Chau, beyond the Lines
2016 (88th) · Courtney Marsh · Vietnam/USA
Chau, Beyond the Lines
2016 (88th) · Courtney Marsh · USA/Vietnam
Body Team 12
2016 (88th) · David Darg · USA/Liberia
A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness 🏆 Winner
2016 (88th) · Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy · Pakistan
White Earth
2015 (87th) · USA
The Reaper (La Parka)
2015 (87th) · Gabriel Serra Arguello · Mexico
The Reaper
2015 (87th) · Mexico
Our Curse
2015 (87th) · Poland
Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1 🏆 Winner
2015 (87th) · Ellen Goosenberg Kent, Dana Perry · USA
The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life 🏆 Winner
2014 (86th) · Malcolm Clarke · UK/Canada
Prison Terminal: The Last Days of Private Jack Hall
2014 (86th) · USA
Karama Has No Walls
2014 (86th) · UK/Yemen
Facing Fear
2014 (86th) · USA
CaveDigger
2014 (86th) · USA
Redemption
2013 (85th) · USA
Open Heart
2013 (85th) · USA/Rwanda
Mondays at Racine
2013 (85th) · USA
Kings Point
2013 (85th) · USA
Inocente 🏆 Winner
2013 (85th) · Sean Fine, Andrea Nix Fine · USA
The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom
2012 (84th) · USA/Japan
The Barber of Birmingham: Foot Soldier of the Civil Rights Movement
2012 (84th) · USA
Saving Face 🏆 Winner
2012 (84th) · Daniel Junge, Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy · USA/Pakistan
Incident in New Baghdad
2012 (84th) · USA
God Is the Bigger Elvis
2012 (84th) · USA
The Warriors of Qiugang
2011 (83th) · USA/China
Sun Come Up
2011 (83th) · USA
Strangers No More 🏆 Winner
2011 (83th) · Karen Goodman, Kirk Simon · USA/Israel
Poster Girl
2011 (83th) · USA
Killing in the Name
2011 (83th) · USA
The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant
2010 (82th) · USA
The Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner
2010 (82th) · USA
Rabbit à la Berlin
2010 (82th) · Bartosz Konopka · Poland
Rabbit a la Berlin
2010 (82th) · Poland/Germany
Music by Prudence 🏆 Winner
2010 (82th) · Roger Ross Williams · USA/Zimbabwe
China's Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province
2010 (82th) · USA/China
2000s
The Witness — From the Balcony of Room 306
2009 (81th) · USA
The Witness – From the Balcony of Room 306
2009 (81th) · Adam Pertofsky, Margaret Hyde · USA
The Final Inch
2009 (81th) · USA
The Conscience of Nhem En
2009 (81th) · USA
Smile Pinki 🏆 Winner
2009 (81th) · Megan Mylan · USA/India
Sari's Mother
2008 (80th) · USA
Salim Baba
2008 (80th) · USA/India
La Corona (The Crown)
2008 (80th) · Amanda Micheli, Isabel Vega · Colombia
La Corona
2008 (80th) · USA
Freeheld 🏆 Winner
2008 (80th) · Cynthia Wade · USA
Two Hands: The Leon Fleisher Story
2007 (79th) · Nathaniel Kahn · USA
Two Hands
2007 (79th) · USA
The Blood of Yingzhou District 🏆 Winner
2007 (79th) · Ruby Yang, Thomas Lennon · USA/China
Rehearsing a Dream
2007 (79th) · USA
Recycled Life
2007 (79th) · USA
The Mushroom Club
2006 (78th) · Steven Okazaki · USA
The Death of Kevin Carter: Casualty of the Bang Bang Club
2006 (78th) · Dan Krauss · USA
God Sleeps in Rwanda
2006 (78th) · USA
A Note of Triumph: The Golden Age of Norman Corwin 🏆 Winner
2006 (78th) · Corinne Marrinan, Eric Simonson · USA
The Children of Leningradsky
2005 (77th) · Hanna Polak, Andrzej Celinski · Poland
Sister Rose's Passion
2005 (77th) · Oren Jacoby · USA
Mighty Times: The Children's March 🏆 Winner
2005 (77th) · Robert Hudson, Bobby Houston · USA
Hardwood
2005 (77th) · Canada
Autism Is a World
2005 (77th) · USA
Ferry Tales
2004 (76th) · USA
Chernobyl Heart 🏆 Winner
2004 (76th) · Maryann DeLeo · USA
Asylum
2004 (76th) · Ireland/USA
Why Can't We Be a Family Again?
2003 (75th) · USA
Twin Towers 🏆 Winner
2003 (75th) · Bill Guttentag, Robert David Port · USA
The Collector of Bedford Street
2003 (75th) · USA
Mighty Times: The Legacy of Rosa Parks
2003 (75th) · Robert Houston · USA
Thoth 🏆 Winner
2002 (74th) · Sarah Kernochan · USA
Artists and Orphans: A True Drama
2002 (74th) · USA
The Man on Lincoln's Nose
2001 (73th) · USA
On Tiptoe: Gentle Steps to Freedom
2001 (73th) · Eric Simonson · USA
Dolphins
2001 (73th) · Greg MacGillivray · USA
Curtain Call
2001 (73th) · USA
Big Mama 🏆 Winner
2001 (73th) · Tracy Seretean · USA
The Wildest Show in the South: The Angola Prison Rodeo
2000 (72th) · USA
King Gimp 🏆 Winner
2000 (72th) · Susan Hannah Hadary, William A. Whiteford · USA
Eyewitness
2000 (72th) · UK
1990s
The Winding Stream
1999 (71th) · USA
The Personals: Improvisations on Romance in the Golden Years 🏆 Winner
1999 (71th) · Keiko Ibi · USA
Sunrise Over Tiananmen Square
1999 (71th) · UK
A Place in the Land
1999 (71th) · USA
Still Kicking: The Fabulous Palm Springs Follies
1998 (70th) · USA
Family Video Diaries: Daughter of the Bride
1998 (70th) · Marcy Garriott · USA
Daughter from Danang
1998 (70th) · USA
Alaska: Spirit of the Wild
1998 (70th) · USA
A Story of Healing 🏆 Winner
1998 (70th) · Donna Dewey, Carol Pasternak · USA
The Wild Bunch: An Album in Montage
1997 (69th) · Paul Seydor · USA
Special Effects: Anything Can Happen
1997 (69th) · USA
Cosmic Voyage
1997 (69th) · USA
Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O'Brien 🏆 Winner
1997 (69th) · Jessica Yu · USA
An Essay on Matisse
1997 (69th) · USA
The Shadow of Hate
1996 (68th) · Charles Guggenheim · USA
The Living Sea
1996 (68th) · Greg MacGillivray · USA
The Battle Over Citizen Kane
1996 (68th) · USA
One Survivor Remembers 🏆 Winner
1996 (68th) · Kary Antholis · USA
Never Give Up: The 20th Century Odyssey of Herbert Zipper
1996 (68th) · Michael Kantor · USA
Jim Dine: A Self-Portrait on the Walls
1996 (68th) · Mira Hamermesh · UK
Conversations with a Killer
1996 (68th) · USA
Straight from the Heart
1995 (67th) · USA
School of the Americas Assassins
1995 (67th) · USA
Blues Highway
1995 (67th) · USA
A Time for Justice 🏆 Winner
1995 (67th) · Charles Guggenheim · USA
89mm od Europy
1995 (67th) · Marcel Lozinski · Poland
89mm from Europe
1995 (67th) · Netherlands
The War Against the Indians
1994 (66th) · USA
Defending Our Lives 🏆 Winner
1994 (66th) · Margaret Lazarus, Renner Wunderlich · USA
Chicks in White Satin
1994 (66th) · USA
Blood Ties: The Life and Work of Sally Mann
1994 (66th) · USA
When Abortion Was Illegal: Untold Stories
1993 (65th) · USA
The Colours of My Father: A Portrait of Sam Borenstein
1993 (65th) · Canada
Educating Peter 🏆 Winner
1993 (65th) · Thomas C. Goodwin, Gerardine Wurzburg · USA
▶ Watch on Archive.org
Beyond Imagining: Margaret Anderson and the 'Little Review'
1993 (65th) · Wendy L. Weinberg · USA
Beyond Imagining: Margaret Anderson and the "Little Review"
1993 (65th) · USA
At the Edge of the World
1993 (65th) · USA
At the Edge of Conquest: The Journey of Chief Wai-Wai
1993 (65th) · Geoffrey O'Connor · USA
The Mark of the Maker
1992 (64th) · USA
Memorial: Letters from American Soldiers
1992 (64th) · USA
In the Shadow of the Stars 🏆 Winner
1992 (64th) · Allie Light, Irving Saraf · USA
Death on the Job
1992 (64th) · USA
Birdnesters of Thailand
1992 (64th) · Thailand
A Little Vicious
1992 (64th) · Immy Humes · USA
Yankee Doodle Dandy
1991 (63th) · USA
Rose Kennedy: A Life to Remember
1991 (63th) · USA
Journey into Life: The World of the Unborn
1991 (63th) · Derek Bromhall · UK
Journey Into Life: The World of the Unborn
1991 (63th) · Derek Bromhall · UK
Days of Waiting 🏆 Winner
1991 (63th) · Steven Okazaki · USA
Crack USA: County Under Siege
1991 (63th) · USA
Chimps: So Like Us
1991 (63th) · USA
Burning Down Tomorrow
1991 (63th) · Kim Shelton · USA
Youthquake
1990 (62th) · USA
Yad Vashem: Preserving the Past to Ensure the Future
1990 (62th) · Harold Mayer · USA
The Johnstown Flood 🏆 Winner
1990 (62th) · Charles Guggenheim · USA
▶ Watch on Archive.org
For All Mankind
1990 (62th) · USA
Fine Food, Fine Pastries, Open 6 to 9
1990 (62th) · USA
1980s
You Don't Have to Die 🏆 Winner
1989 (61th) · William Guttentag, Malcolm Clarke · USA
The Children's Storefront
1989 (61th) · USA
Portrait of Imogen
1989 (61th) · USA
Gang Cops
1989 (61th) · USA
Family Gathering
1989 (61th) · USA
Young at Heart 🏆 Winner
1988 (60th) · Pamela Conn, Sue Marx · USA
Silver into Gold
1988 (60th) · Lynn Mueller · USA
Silver Into Gold
1988 (60th) · USA
Language Says It All
1988 (60th) · USA
In the Wee Wee Hours…
1988 (60th) · Frank Daniel, Izak Ben-Meir · USA
In the Wee Wee Hours...
1988 (60th) · USA
Frances Steloff: Memoirs of a Bookseller
1988 (60th) · USA
Women — For America, for the World 🏆 Winner
1987 (59th) · Vivienne Verdon-Roe · USA
The Masters of Disaster
1987 (59th) · USA
Red Grooms: Sunflower in a Hothouse
1987 (59th) · USA
Debonair Dancers
1987 (59th) · USA
Witness to War: Dr. Charlie Clements 🏆 Winner
1986 (58th) · David Goodman · USA
▶ Watch on Archive.org
The Wizard of the Strings
1986 (58th) · USA
The Courage to Care
1986 (58th) · USA
Making Overtures: The Story of a Community Orchestra
1986 (58th) · Barbara Willis Sweete · Canada
Making Overtures — The Story of a Community Orchestra
1986 (58th) · USA
Keats and His Nightingale: A Blind Date
1986 (58th) · UK
Vospominaniye o Pavlovske
1985 (57th) · Yuri Lepekhov · USSR
The Stone Carvers 🏆 Winner
1985 (57th) · Marjorie Hunt, Paul Wagner · USA
The Garden of Eden
1985 (57th) · USA
The Children of Soong Ching Ling
1985 (57th) · USA
Recollections of Pavlovsk
1985 (57th) · USA
Code Gray: Ethical Dilemmas in Nursing
1985 (57th) · USA
You Are Free
1984 (56th) · USA
Spaces: The Architecture of Paul Rudolph
1984 (56th) · USA
Sewing Woman
1984 (56th) · USA
In the Nuclear Shadow: What Can the Children Tell Us?
1984 (56th) · USA
Ihr zent frei
1984 (56th) · Germany
Flamenco at 5:15 🏆 Winner
1984 (56th) · Cynthia Scott · Canada
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Traveling Hopefully
1983 (55th) · USA
To Live or Let Die
1983 (55th) · USA
The Klan: A Legacy of Hate in America
1983 (55th) · USA
If You Love This Planet 🏆 Winner
1983 (55th) · Terri Nash · Canada
Gods of Metal
1983 (55th) · Canada
Urge to Build
1982 (54th) · USA
See What I Say
1982 (54th) · USA
Journey for Survival
1982 (54th) · USA
Close Harmony 🏆 Winner
1982 (54th) · Nigel Noble · USA
Americas in Transition
1982 (54th) · USA
The Killing Ground
1981 (53th) · USA
The Eruption of Mount St. Helens!
1981 (53th) · Robert Landsburg · USA
The Eruption of Mount St. Helens
1981 (53th) · USA
Luther Metke at 94
1981 (53th) · University of California · USA
Karl Hess: Toward Liberty 🏆 Winner
1981 (53th) · Peter Ladue, Roland Halle · USA
It's the Same World
1981 (53th) · USA
Don't Mess with Bill
1981 (53th) · USA
Remember Me
1980 (52th) · USA
Paul Robeson: Tribute to an Artist 🏆 Winner
1980 (52th) · Saul J. Turell · USA
▶ Watch on Archive.org
Nails
1980 (52th) · Canada
Koryo Celadon
1980 (52th) · South Korea
1970s
The Flight of the Gossamer Condor 🏆 Winner
1979 (51th) · Jacqueline Phillips Shedd, Ben Shedd · USA
The Divided Trail: A Native American Odyssey
1979 (51th) · Jerry Aronson · USA
The Divided Trail
1979 (51th) · USA
Squires of San Quentin
1979 (51th) · USA
Goodnight Miss Ann
1979 (51th) · USA
An Encounter with Faces
1979 (51th) · India
The Shetland Experience
1978 (50th) · UK
Of Time, Tombs and Treasures
1978 (50th) · James R. Messenger · USA
Of Time, Tombs and Treasure
1978 (50th) · USA
Gravity Is My Enemy 🏆 Winner
1978 (50th) · John Joseph, Jan Stussy · USA
First Edition
1978 (50th) · USA
Agueda Martinez: Our People, Our Country
1978 (50th) · USA
Universe
1977 (49th) · Canada
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The End of the Road
1977 (49th) · USA
Number Our Days 🏆 Winner
1977 (49th) · Lynne Littman · USA
Blackwood
1977 (49th) · Canada
American Shoeshine
1977 (49th) · USA
Whistling Smith
1976 (48th) · Canada
The End of the Game 🏆 Winner
1976 (48th) · Robin Lehman · USA
Probes in Space
1976 (48th) · USA
Millions of Years Ahead of Man
1976 (48th) · USA
Arthur and Lillie
1976 (48th) · USA
Probing the Ocean
1975 (47th) · USA
Naked Yoga
1975 (47th) · USA
John Muir's High Sierra
1975 (47th) · Dewitt Jones, Lesley Foster · USA
Explorer Jasper National Park
1975 (47th) · Canada
Exploratorium
1975 (47th) · Jon Boorstin · USA
Don't 🏆 Winner
1975 (47th) · Robin Lehman · USA
City Out of Wilderness
1975 (47th) · USA
Princeton: A Search for Answers 🏆 Winner
1974 (46th) · Julian Krainin · USA
Paisti ag obair
1974 (46th) · Ireland
Four Stones for Kanemitsu
1974 (46th) · USA
Christo's Valley Curtain
1974 (46th) · Albert Maysles, David Maysles · USA
Children at Work
1974 (46th) · UK
Background
1974 (46th) · USA
This Tiny World 🏆 Winner
1973 (45th) · Charles Huguenot van der Linden, Martina Huguenot van der Linden · Netherlands
The Tide of Traffic
1973 (45th) · UK
Selling Out
1973 (45th) · USA
K-Z
1973 (45th) · Hungary
Hundertwassers Regentag
1973 (45th) · Germany
Hundertwasser's Rainy Day
1973 (45th) · Austria
The Numbers Start with the River
1972 (44th) · USA
Somebody Waiting
1972 (44th) · USA
Sentinels of Silence 🏆 Winner
1972 (44th) · Mexico/USA
Art Is…
1972 (44th) · Julian Krainin, DeWitt L. Sage Jr. · USA
Art Is...
1972 (44th) · USA
Adventures in Perception
1972 (44th) · USA
Time Is Running Out
1971 (43th) · USA
The Gifts
1971 (43th) · USA
Oisin
1971 (43th) · Ireland
Interviews with My Lai Veterans 🏆 Winner
1971 (43th) · Joseph Strick · USA
A Long Way from Nowhere
1971 (43th) · USA
The Magic Machines
1970 (42th) · USA
Somebody Waiting
1970 (42th) · USA
Leo Beuerman
1970 (42th) · USA
Jenny Is a Good Thing
1970 (42th) · USA
Czechoslovakia 1968 🏆 Winner
1970 (42th) · Robert M. Fresco, Denis Sanders · USA
▶ Watch on Archive.org
An Impression of John Steinbeck: Writer
1970 (42th) · USA
1960s
Why Man Creates 🏆 Winner
1969 (41th) · Saul Bass · USA
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The Revolving Door
1969 (41th) · USA
The House That Ananda Built
1969 (41th) · India
A Way Out of the Wilderness
1969 (41th) · USA
A Space to Grow
1969 (41th) · USA
While I Run This Race
1968 (40th) · USA
The Redwoods 🏆 Winner
1968 (40th) · Mark Harris, Trevor Greenwood · USA
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See You at the Pillar
1968 (40th) · Netherlands
Monument to the Dream
1968 (40th) · USA
A Place to Stand
1968 (40th) · Canada
The Odds Against
1967 (39th) · USA
Saint Matthew Passion
1967 (39th) · Netherlands
Részletek J.S. Bach Máté passiójából
1967 (39th) · Hungarofilm · Hungary
Adolescence
1967 (39th) · France
A Year Toward Tomorrow 🏆 Winner
1967 (39th) · Edmond Levy · USA
Yeats Country
1966 (38th) · Patrick Carey · Ireland
To Be Alive! 🏆 Winner
1966 (38th) · Francis Thompson · USA
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Point of View
1966 (38th) · Belgium
Ouverture
1966 (38th) · France
Nyitany (Overture)
1966 (38th) · István Gaál · Hungary
Mural on Our Street
1966 (38th) · USA
Nine from Little Rock 🏆 Winner
1965 (37th) · Charles Guggenheim · USA
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Kenojuak
1965 (37th) · Canada
Eskimo Artist: Kenojuak
1965 (37th) · Kathleen Shannon, John Spotton · Canada
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Children Without
1965 (37th) · USA
Breaking the Habit
1965 (37th) · USA
140 Days Under the World
1965 (37th) · Sweden
To Live Again
1964 (36th) · Wilbur T. Blume · USA
Thirty Million Letters
1964 (36th) · Edgar Anstey · UK
The Spirit of America
1964 (36th) · USA
The Five Cities of June
1964 (36th) · USA
Faces of Change
1964 (36th) · USA
Chagall 🏆 Winner
1964 (36th) · Simon Schiffrin · France
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The Road to the Wall
1963 (35th) · USA
The John Glenn Story
1963 (35th) · USA
Dylan Thomas 🏆 Winner
1963 (35th) · Jack Howells · UK
Project Hope 🏆 Winner
1962 (34th) · Frank P. Bibas · USA
L'Uomo in Grigio (The Man in Gray)
1962 (34th) · Benedetto Benedetti · Italy
L'Uomo in Grigio
1962 (34th) · United Artists · Italy
Cradle of Genius
1962 (34th) · Ireland
Breaking the Language Barrier
1962 (34th) · USA
Universe
1961 (33th) · Roman Kroitor, Colin Low · Canada
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George Grosz' Interregnum
1961 (33th) · Charles Carey, Altina Carey · USA
Day of the Painter 🏆 Winner
1961 (33th) · USA
Beyond Silence
1961 (33th) · United States Information Agency · USA
A City Called Copenhagen
1961 (33th) · Jørgen Roos · Denmark
Giuseppina 🏆 Winner
1960 (32th) · James Hill · UK
From Generation to Generation
1960 (32th) · Edward F. Cullen · USA
Donald in Mathmagic Land
1960 (32th) · Hamilton Luske · USA
1950s
The Living Stone
1959 (31th) · Tom Daly · Canada
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Overture
1959 (31th) · Thorold Dickinson · UK
Journey into Spring
1959 (31th) · Ian Ferguson · UK
Glass 🏆 Winner
1959 (31th) · Bert Haanstra · Netherlands
Employees Only
1959 (31th) · Kenneth G. Brown · USA
Ama Girls 🏆 Winner
1958 (30th) · Ben Sharpsteen · USA
The True Story of the Civil War 🏆 Winner
1957 (29th) · USA
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The House without a Name
1957 (29th) · Valentine Davies · USA
The House Without a Name
1957 (29th) · Germany
The Dark Wave
1957 (29th) · John Healy · USA
Man in Space
1957 (29th) · Ward Kimball · USA
A City Decides
1957 (29th) · Charles Guggenheim · USA
The Face of Lincoln
1956 (28th) · Wilbur T. Blume · USA
The Battle of Gettysburg
1956 (28th) · Dore Schary · USA
Man in Space 🏆 Winner
1956 (28th) · Ward Kimball · USA
Rembrandt: A Self-Portrait
1955 (27th) · Morrie Roizman · USA
Men Against the Arctic 🏆 Winner
1955 (27th) · Winston Hibler · USA
Jet Carrier
1955 (27th) · US Navy · USA
Thursday's Children 🏆 Winner
1954 (26th) · Lindsay Anderson, Guy Brenton · UK
They Planted a Stone
1954 (26th) · James Carr · UK
The Word
1954 (26th) · John Healy, John Adams · USA
The Living Desert
1954 (26th) · USA
The Living City
1954 (26th) · John Barnes · USA
Operation Blue Jay
1954 (26th) · USA
The Word
1953 (25th) · USA
The Living City
1953 (25th) · USA
The Garden Spider
1953 (25th) · Alberto Ancilotto · Italy
The Alaskan Eskimo 🏆 Winner
1953 (25th) · USA
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Man Alive!
1953 (25th) · Stephen Bosustow · USA
Epeira Diadema
1953 (25th) · Italy
Devil Take Us
1953 (25th) · Herbert Morgan · USA
The Seeing Eye
1952 (24th) · USA
One Who Came Back
1952 (24th) · Owen Crump · USA
Neighbours 🏆 Winner
1952 (24th) · Norman McLaren · Canada
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Man Alive!
1952 (24th) · USA
Devil Take Us
1952 (24th) · USA
The Stairs
1951 (23th) · Film Documents Inc. · USA
The Seeing Eye
1951 (23th) · USA
The Fight: Science against Cancer
1951 (23th) · Guy Glover · Canada
One Who Came Back
1951 (23th) · USA
Benjy 🏆 Winner
1951 (23th) · USA
Why Korea? 🏆 Winner
1950 (22th) · USA
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The Stairs
1950 (22th) · USA
The Rising Tide
1950 (22th) · St. Francis-Xavier University · Canada
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The Fight: Science Against Cancer
1950 (22th) · USA
1848
1950 (22th) · French Cinema General Cooperative · France
1940s
The Rising Tide
1949 (21th) · UK
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Operation Vittles
1949 (21th) · United States Army Air Force · USA
Heart to Heart
1949 (21th) · Herbert Morgan · USA
A Chance to Live 🏆 Winner
1949 (21th) · USA
1848
1949 (21th) · France
Toward Independence 🏆 Winner
1948 (20th) · USA
School in the Mailbox
1948 (20th) · Australian News and Information Bureau · Australia
Passport to Nowhere
1948 (20th) · Frederic Ullman Jr. · USA
Operation Vittles
1948 (20th) · USA
Heart to Heart
1948 (20th) · USA
Traffic with the Devil
1947 (19th) · Herbert Morgan · USA
School in the Mailbox
1947 (19th) · Australia
Passport to Nowhere
1947 (19th) · USA
Paramount News Issue #37
1947 (19th) · Paramount · USA
Life at the Zoo
1947 (19th) · Artkino · USSR
First Steps 🏆 Winner
1947 (19th) · USA
Atomic Power
1947 (19th) · The March of Time · USA
Traffic with the Devil
1946 (18th) · USA
To the Shores of Iwo Jima
1946 (18th) · US Marine Corps · USA
Seeds of Destiny 🏆 Winner
1946 (18th) · USA
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Life at the Zoo
1946 (18th) · USA
Library of Congress
1946 (18th) · Paramount · USA
Atomic Power
1946 (18th) · USA
To the Shores of Iwo Jima
1945 (17th) · USA
New Americans
1945 (17th) · RKO Radio · USA
Library of Congress
1945 (17th) · USA
Hymn of the Nations
1945 (17th) · USA
Hitler Lives? 🏆 Winner
1945 (17th) · Don Siegel · USA
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Fighting Lady
1945 (17th) · Louis de Rochemont · USA
Arturo Toscanini
1945 (17th) · RKO Radio · USA
Youth in Crisis
1944 (16th) · The March of Time · USA
With the Marines at Tarawa 🏆 Winner
1944 (16th) · Louis Hayward · USA
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Tomorrow We Fly
1944 (16th) · US Navy Bureau of Aeronautics · USA
To the People of the United States
1944 (16th) · Walter Wanger · USA
Swedes in America
1944 (16th) · US Office of War Information · USA
Plan for Destruction
1944 (16th) · Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer · USA
New Americans
1944 (16th) · USA
Children of Mars
1944 (16th) · RKO Radio · USA
Arturo Toscanini
1944 (16th) · USA
To the People of the United States
1943 (15th) · USA
Swedes in America
1943 (15th) · Irving Lerner · USA
Plan for Destruction
1943 (15th) · USA
December 7th 🏆 Winner
1943 (15th) · John Ford, Gregg Toland · USA
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Children of Mars
1943 (15th) · USA
War Clouds in the Pacific
1942 (14th) · National Film Board of Canada · Canada
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Soldiers of the Sky
1942 (14th) · Truman Talley · USA
Russian Soil
1942 (14th) · Amkino · USSR
Norway in Revolt
1942 (14th) · The March of Time · USA
Life of a Thoroughbred
1942 (14th) · Truman Talley · USA
Letter from Home
1942 (14th) · British Ministry of Information · UK
Churchill's Island 🏆 Winner
1942 (14th) · Stuart Legg · Canada
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Christmas Under Fire
1942 (14th) · British Ministry of Information · UK
Bomber
1942 (14th) · US Office for Emergency Management · USA
Adventure in the Bronx
1942 (14th) · Film Associates · USA
A Place to Live
1942 (14th) · Irving Lerner · USA
War Clouds in the Pacific
1941 (13th) · Canada
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Soldiers of the Sky
1941 (13th) · USA
Russian Soil
1941 (13th) · USA
Norway in Revolt
1941 (13th) · USA
Life of a Thoroughbred
1941 (13th) · USA
Letter from Home
1941 (14th) · UK
Christmas Under Fire
1941 (14th) · Harry Watt · UK
Adventure in the Bronx
1941 (14th) · USA
A Place to Live
1941 (13th) · USA