# National Film Award for Best Historical Reconstruction/Compilation Film

The National Film Award for Best Historical Reconstruction/Compilation Film was one of the National Film Awards presented annually by the Directorate of Film Festivals, the organisation set up by Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, India. It was one of several awards presented for non-feature films.
The award was instituted in 1984, at 32nd National Film Awards and awarded annually for non-feature films produced in the year across the country, in all Indian languages. At the 69th National Film Awards, the award is clubbed with National Film Award for Best Biographical Film, with the new category named as Best Biographical / Historical Reconstruction / Compilation Film.

## Awards

Awards legends :
* Indicates a joint award for the year
Award includes 'Rajat Kamal' (Silver Lotus Award) and cash prize. Following are the award winners over the years:
List of films, showing the year, language(s), producer(s) and director(s) :
| Year | Film(s) | Language(s) | Producer(s) | Director(s) |
| 1984 (32nd) | Nehru | English | Yash Chowdhary | • Shyam Benegal • Yuri Aldokhin |
| 1985 (33rd) | No Award | No Award | No Award | No Award |
| 1986 (34th) | We The People of India | English | N. S. Thapa for Films Division | Bhanumurthy Alur |
| 1987 (35th) | The Story of Delhi | English | Serbjeet International for Films Division | Serbjeet Singh |
| 1988 (36th) | No Award | No Award | No Award | No Award |
| 1989 (37th) | Chhapakhanar Bangla Haraf | Bengali | • Shreemati Chatterjee • Chandrika Bhattacharjee | Abhijit Chattopadhyay |
| 1989 (37th) | Kathni Karni Eksi (Jamnalal Bajaj) | Hindi | M/s Climb Films | Bhim Sain |
| 1990 (38th) | No Award | No Award | No Award | No Award |
| 1991 (39th) | Anand Bhavan | English | Yash Chaudhary | V. B. Chandra |
| 1992 (40th) | No Award | No Award | No Award | No Award |
| 1993 (41st) | No Award | No Award | No Award | No Award |
| 1994 (42nd) | Phalke Children | English | • R. Krishna Mohan • Y. N. Engineer | Kamal Swaroop |
| 1995 (43rd) | Bhalji Pendharkar | English | • C. S. Nair • B. R. Shendge for Films Division | P. B. Pendharkar for Films Division |
| 1996 (44th) | No Award | No Award | No Award | No Award |
| 1997 (45th) | Ayyankili: Adhastitharude Vimochakan | Malayalam | • P. Sasidharan • A. Krishna | R. S. Madhu |
| 1998 (46th) | Anna Vaazhigirar | Tamil | Tamil Nadu Films Division | Tamil Nadu Films Division |
| 1999 (47th) | No Award | No Award | No Award | No Award |
| 2000 (48th) | From the land of Buddhism to the Land of Buddha | English | Kuldip Sinha for Films Division | Shalini Shah for Films Division |
| 2001 (49th) | No Award | No Award | No Award | No Award |
| 2002 (50th) | No Award | No Award | No Award | No Award |
| 2003 (51st) | Vaidyaratnam P. S. Varrier | English | Kerala State Film Development Corporation | T. Krishnan Unni |
| 2004 (52nd) | No Award | No Award | No Award | No Award |
| 2005 (53rd) | Hans Akela: Kumar Gandharva† | Hindi | Films Division | Jabbar Patel |
| 2006 (54th) | No Award | No Award | No Award | No Award |
| 2007 (55th) | Antardhwani† | Hindi | Films Division | Jabbar Patel |
| 2008 (56th) | The Assassination of Rajiv Gandhi: A Reconstruction | English | Films Division | R. Krishna Mohan |
| 2009 (57th) | Pancham Unmixed | • Bengali • Hindi • English | Brahmanand S. Siingh | Brahmanand S. Siingh |
| 2010 (58th) | No Award | No Award | No Award | No Award |
| 2011 (59th) | Vishnupant Damle: Bolpatancha Mook Nayak† | Marathi | Anil Anant Damle | Virendra Valsangkar |
| 2012 (60th) | Celluloid Man† | • English • Hindi • Kannada • Bengali | Shivendra Singh Dungarpur | Shivendra Singh Dungarpur |
| 2013 (61st) | The Last Adieu† | English | Films Division | Shabnam Sukhdev |
| 2014 (62nd) | Amar Katha: Story of Binodini† | Bengali | Films Division | Tuhinabha Majumder |
| 2015 (63rd) | Life in Metaphors: A Portrait of Girish Kasaravalli† | • English • Kannada | Reelism Film | O.P. Shrivastava |
| 2016 (64th) | Zikr Us Parivaksha: Begum Akhtar† | English | Sangeet Natak Akademi | Nirmal Chander |
| 2017 (65th) | Naachi se Baanchi† | | Films Division of India | Biju Toppo |
| 2017 (65th) | Sword of Liberty† | | R. C. Suresh | Shiny Jacob Benjamin |
| 2018 (66th) | No Award | No Award | No Award | No Award |
| 2019 (67th) | No Award | No Award | No Award | No Award |
| 2020 (68th) | No Award | No Award | No Award | No Award |