April 14, 2021

Exceptional Merit In Documentary Filmmaking

Nominees and Winners 2010-2020

*denotes winner

2020

  • Moonlight Sonata: Deafness In Three Movements

  • Chasing The Moon

  • One Child Nation

  • The Cave*

2019

  • Divide And Conquer: The Story Of Roger Ailes

  • Hale County This Morning, This Evening

  • RBG*

  • The Sentence*

  • Three Identical Strangers

2018

  • City Of Ghosts

  • Jane

  • Strong Island*

  • What Haunts Us

2017

  • Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher And Debbie Reynolds

  • LA 92*

  • O.J.: Made In America

  • Oklahoma City

  • The White Helmets

2016

  • Cartel Land*

  • Jim: The James Foley Story*

  • Racing Extinction

  • The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution

  • The Hunting Ground

  • Winter On Fire: Ukraine's Fight For Freedom

2015

  • Citizenfour*

  • Hot Girls Wanted

  • The Great Invisible

2014

  • Brave Miss World

  • Hillsborough Life

  • According To Sam*

  • The Amish: Shunned

2013

  • Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence In The House Of God*

2012

  • Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory

  • The Amish

  • Have You Heard From Johannesburg (Independent Lens)*

2011

  • Gasland

  • The Most Dangerous Man In America: Daniel Ellsberg And The Pentagon Papers

  • Freedom Riders*

2010

  • Brick City

  • Sergio

  • Pressure Cooker

  • My Lai

  • The Betrayal (Nerakhoon)*

  • Patti Smith: Dream Of Life