Academy Award - Best Documentary

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All winners in the Best Documentary Feature category. The first year it was awarded, 1942, it was given to four films and half of those were shorts - so only the two feature-lengths are included here. In 1946 there was no award in the category.

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  1. 62 -

    Bowling for Columbine

    2002, in 11 top lists Check
  2. 66 -

    An Inconvenient Truth

    2006, in 3 top lists Check
  3. 68 -

    Man on Wire

    2008, in 6 top lists Check
  4. 65 -

    La marche de l'empereur

    2005 — a.k.a. March of the Penguins, in 3 top lists Check
  5. 70 -

    Inside Job

    2010, in 4 top lists Check
  6. 69 -

    The Cove

    2009, in 2 top lists Check
  7. 63 -

    The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of...

    2003 — a.k.a. The Fog of War, in 6 top lists Check
  8. 29 -

    Woodstock

    1970, in 13 top lists Check
  9. 25 -

    The War Game

    1966, in 12 top lists Check
  10. 74 -

    Citizenfour

    2014, in 3 top lists Check
  11. 80 -

    My Octopus Teacher

    2020, in 1 top list
    Check
  12. 72 -

    Searching for Sugar Man

    2012, in 6 top lists Check
  13. 75 -

    Amy

    2015, in 2 top lists Check
  14. 78 -

    Free Solo

    2018, in 1 top list
    Check
  15. 43 -

    The Times of Harvey Milk

    1984, in 8 top lists Check
  16. 35 -

    Harlan County U.S.A.

    1976, in 11 top lists Check
  17. 76 -

    O.J.: Made in America

    2016, in 7 top lists Check
  18. 67 -

    Taxi to the Dark Side

    2007, in 2 top lists Check
  19. 33 -

    Hearts and Minds

    1974, in 7 top lists Check
  20. 73 -

    Twenty Feet from Stardom

    2013 — a.k.a. 20 Feet from Stardom, in 2 top lists Check
  21. 15 -

    Le monde du silence

    1956 — a.k.a. The Silent World, in 3 top lists Check
  22. 59 -

    One Day in September

    1999, in 1 top list Check
  23. 56 -

    When We Were Kings

    1996, in 7 top lists Check
  24. 64 -

    Born Into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kids

    2004, in 1 top list Check
  25. 48 -

    Hôtel Terminus

    1988, in 6 top lists Check
  26. 82 -

    Navalny

    2022, in 2 top lists
    Check
  27. 2 -

    Prelude to War

    1942 — a.k.a. Why We Fight, in 4 top lists Check
  28. 79 -

    American Factory

    2019, in 1 top list
    Check
  29. 55 -

    Anne Frank Remembered

    1995, in 1 top list Check
  30. 77 -

    Icarus

    2017, in 1 top list
    Check
  31. 10 -

    Kon-Tiki

    1950, in 3 top lists Check
  32. 12 -

    The Living Desert

    1953, in 2 top lists Check
  33. 52 -

    The Panama Deception

    1992, in 1 top list Check
  34. 71 -

    Undefeated

    2011, in 1 top list Check
  35. 17 -

    White Wilderness

    1958, in 1 top list Check
  36. 49 -

    Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt

    1989, in 1 top list Check
  37. 8 -

    Daybreak in Udi

    1949, in 1 top list Check
  38. 31 -

    Marjoe

    1972, in 3 top lists Check
  39. 7 -

    The Secret Land

    1948, in 1 top list Check
  40. 83 new

    20 Days in Mariupol

    2023, in 1 top list
    Check
  41. 16 -

    Albert Schweitzer

    1957, in 1 top list Check
  42. 61 -

    Un coupable idéal

    2001 — a.k.a. Murder on a Sunday Morning, in 2 top lists Check
  43. 6 -

    Design for Death

    1947, in 1 top list Check
  44. 39 -

    From Mao to Mozart: Isaac Stern in China

    1979, in 1 top list Check
  45. 30 -

    The Hellstrom Chronicle

    1971, in 3 top lists Check
  46. 58 -

    The Last Days

    1998, in 2 top lists Check
  47. 57 -

    The Long Way Home

    1997, in 1 top list Check
  48. 34 -

    The Man Who Skied Down Everest

    1975, in 1 top list Check
  49. 22 -

    Robert Frost: A Lover's Quarrel with the World

    1963, in 1 top list Check
  50. 37 -

    Scared Straight!

    1978, in 1 top list Check
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