# Toronto Film Critics Association Award for Best Documentary Film

The BMO Allan King Award for Best Documentary Film is an annual award given by the Toronto Film Critics Association to a film judged by the members of that body to be the year's best documentary film.

## Winners
### 2000s

| Year | Winner | Director(s) |
| 2002 | Bowling for Columbine | Michael Moore |
| 2002 | Gambling, Gods and LSD | Peter Mettler |
| 2002 | Standing in the Shadows of Motown | Paul Justman |
| 2003 | Capturing the Friedmans | Andrew Jarecki |
| 2004 | The Fog of War | Errol Morris |
| 2005 | Grizzly Man | Werner Herzog |
| 2006 | Manufactured Landscapes | Jennifer Baichwal |
| 2006 | Deliver Us from Evil | Amy J. Berg |
| 2006 | An Inconvenient Truth | Davis Guggenheim |
| 2007 | No End in Sight | Charles Ferguson |
| 2007 | Iraq in Fragments | James Longley |
| 2007 | My Kid Could Paint That | Amir Bar-Lev |
| 2008 | Man on Wire | James Marsh |
| 2008 | Standard Operating Procedure | Errol Morris |
| 2008 | Up the Yangtze | Yung Chang |
| 2009 | The Cove | Louie Psihoyos |
| 2009 | Anvil! The Story of Anvil | Sacha Gervasi |
| 2009 | The Beaches of Agnès | Agnès Varda |

### 2010s

| Year | Winner | Director(s) |
| 2010 | Exit Through the Gift Shop | Banksy |
| 2010 | Inside Job | Charles Ferguson |
| 2010 | Marwencol | Jeff Malmberg |
| 2011 | Nostalgia for the Light | Patricio Guzmán |
| 2011 | Into the Abyss | Werner Herzog |
| 2011 | Project Nim | James Marsh |
| 2012 | Stories We Tell | Sarah Polley |
| 2012 | The Queen of Versailles | Lauren Greenfield |
| 2012 | Searching for Sugar Man | Malik Bendjelloul |
| 2013 | The Act of Killing | Joshua Oppenheimer |
| 2013 | Leviathan | Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Véréna Paravel |
| 2013 | Tim's Vermeer | Teller |
| 2014 | The Overnighters | Jesse Moss |
| 2014 | Citizenfour | Laura Poitras |
| 2014 | Manakamana | Stephanie Spray, Pacho Velez |
| 2015 | The Look of Silence | Joshua Oppenheimer |
| 2015 | Amy | Asif Kapadia |
| 2015 | Listen to Me Marlon | Stevan Riley |
| 2016 | Cameraperson | Kirsten Johnson |
| 2016 | Fire at Sea | Gianfranco Rosi |
| 2016 | The Stairs | Hugh Gibson |
| 2017 | Faces Places | Agnès Varda, JR |
| 2017 | Jane | Brett Morgen |
| 2017 | Kedi | Ceyda Torun |
| 2018 | Won't You Be My Neighbor? | Morgan Neville |
| 2018 | Anthropocene: The Human Epoch | Jennifer Baichwal, Nicholas de Pencier, Edward Burtynsky |
| 2018 | Free Solo | Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin |
| 2019 | American Factory | Steven Bognar, Julia Reichert |
| 2019 | Apollo 11 | Todd Douglas Miller |
| 2019 | The Cave | Feras Fayyad |

### 2020s

| Year | Winner | Director(s) |
| 2020 | Collective | Alexander Nanau |
| 2020 | American Utopia | Spike Lee |
| 2020 | Crip Camp | Nicole Newnham, James LeBrecht |
| 2020 | Time | Garrett Bradley |
| 2021 | Summer of Soul | Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson |
| 2021 | Flee | Jonas Poher Rasmussen |
| 2021 | The Velvet Underground | Todd Haynes |
| 2022 | All the Beauty and the Bloodshed | Laura Poitras |
| 2022 | Fire of Love | Sara Dosa |
| 2022 | Moonage Daydream | Brett Morgen |
| 2023 | 20 Days in Mariupol | Mstyslav Chernov |
| 2023 | The Eternal Memory | Maite Alberdi |
| 2023 | Four Daughters | Kaouther Ben Hania |
| 2023 | Swan Song | Chelsea McMullan |
| 2024 | Dahomey | Mati Diop |
| 2024 | Occupied City | Steve McQueen |
| 2024 | Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat | Johan Grimonprez |