# Asia Pacific Screen Award for Best Documentary Film

The Asia Pacific Screen Award for Best Documentary Film, formerly known as the Asia Pacific Screen Award for Best Documentary Feature Film, is an award category of the annual Asia Pacific Screen Awards.

## 2000s

| Year | Winner and nominees | English title | Original title |
| 2007 | Mai Masri, Jean Chamoun | Beirut Diaries: Truth, Lies and Videos | Yaoumiyat Beirut: Hakaek wa Akatheeb |
| 2007 | Gao Feng | A Great Master Re-Captured | You Jian Mei Lan Fang |
| 2007 | Vahid Mousaine Simani | The Lost Land | Sarzamine Gomshodeh |
| 2007 | Vardan Hovhannisyan | A Story of People in War and Peace | |
| 2007 | Tan Chui Mui, Amir Muhammad | Village People Radio Show | Apa Khabar Orang Kampung |
| 2008 | Kim Dong-won, Lee SeungGu | 63 Years On | Ggeutnaji Anhmeun Jeon Jaeng |
| 2008 | Mai Masri Mohammad Belhaj Jean Chamoun | 33 Days | 33 Yaoum |
| 2008 | Setiawan Djody, Erros Djarot, Gotot Prakosa | Kantata Takwa | Kantata Takwa |
| 2008 | Vincent Ward, Marg Slater, Tainui Stephens | Rain of the Children | |
| 2008 | Mahdi Moniri | Tinar | |
| 2009 | Knut Ogris, 'Karoline Leth, Sandra Itkoff, Philippa Kowarsky' | Defamation | Hashmatsa |
| 2009 | Ing K, Manit Sriwanichpoom, Kraisak Choonhavan | Citizen Juling | Polamuang Juliang |
| 2009 | David MacDougall | Gandhi's Children | |
| 2009 | Kazuhiro Soda | Mental | Seishin |
| 2009 | Gerard Lacroix, Leslie F. Grunberg, Gerard Pont | Survive, in the Heart of the Khmer Rouge Madness | L'Important, c'est de Rester Vivant |

## 2010s

| Year | Winner and nominees | English title | Original title |
| 2010 | Mila Aung-Thwin, Daniel Cross | Last Train Home | |
| 2010 | Zeina Daccache | 12 Angry Lebanese: The Documentary | |
| 2010 | Ronit Avni, Julia Bacha, Rula Salameh | Budrus | |
| 2010 | Robert Lemkin, Thet Sambath | Enemies of the People | |
| 2010 | Zhu Rikun | Karamay | |
| 2011 | Maryam Ebrahimi | I Was Worth 50 Sheep | Jag var värd 50 lamm |
| 2011 | Shahin Parhami | Amin | |
| 2011 | Amber Latiff, Girjashanker Vohra | Pink Saris | |
| 2011 | Gemma Atwal, Matt Norman | Marathon Boy | |
| 2011 | Anna Dziapshipa | Bakhmaro | |
| 2012 | Isabelle Stead, Mohamed Jabarah Al-Daradji, Atia Jabarah Al-Daradji | In My Mother's Arms | |
| 2012 | Christine Camdessus, Serge Gordey, Emad Burnat, Guy Davidi | Five Broken Cameras | Hams Caeraten Maksura /Hamesh Matzlemot Shvurot |
| 2012 | Shalahuddin Siregar | The Land Beneath the Fog | Neger di Bawah Kabut |
| 2012 | Liran Atzmor | The Law in These Parts | Shiton hachok |
| 2012 | Kim Min-chul, Gary Kam | Planet of Snail - High Commendation | |
| 2013 | Joshua Oppenheimer, Signe Byrge Sørensen, Joram Ten Brink, Christine Cynn, Anne Köhncke, Michael Uwemedimo | The Act of Killing | |
| 2013 | Dror Moreh, Estelle Fialon, Phillipa Kowarsky | The Gatekeepers | |
| 2013 | Amit Virmani, Seah Kui Luan | Menstrual Man | |
| 2013 | Maryam Ebrahimi | No Burqas Behind Bars | |
| 2013 | Patrick Campbell, Mahdi Fleifel | A World Not Ours | |
| 2014 | Tara Karimi | 1001 Apples | Hezar-O Yek Siv |
| 2014 | Surabhi Sharma | Bidesia In Bambai | |
| 2014 | Kim Mi-re | Sanda: Surviving | Sanda |
| 2014 | Serge Lalou, Camille Laumié, Orwa Nyrabia, Diana El Jeiroudi | Slivered Water, Syria Self-Portrait | Eau Agentée, Syrie Autoportrait |
| 2014 | James Leong, Lynn Lee | Wukan: The Flame of Democracy | Wukan: Minzu Zhi Guang |
| 2015 | Zhao Qi, Zhou Hao | The Chinese Mayor | Datong |
| 2015 | Jonathan Goodman Levitt, Hemal Trivedi | Among The Believers | |
| 2015 | Molly Reynolds, Peter Djigirr, Rolf de Heer | Another Country | |
| 2015 | Bahman Ghobadi | A Flag Without A Country | |
| 2015 | Signe Byrge Sørensen | The Look of Silence | Senyap |
| 2016 | Mehrdad Oskouei | Starless Dreams | Royahaye Dame Sobh |
| 2016 | Wang Shin-hong, Midi Z, Isabella Ho, Lin Sheng-wen | City of Jade | Fei Cui Zhi Cheng |
| 2016 | Catherine Dussart | Exile | Exil |
| 2016 | Lizzette Atkins, George Gittoes | Snow Monkey | |
| 2016 | Natalya Manskaya | Under The Sun | V Luchakh Solnca |
| 2017 | Søren Steen Jespersen, Kareem Abeed, Stefan Kloos | Last Men in Aleppo | |
| 2017 | Alexander Behse; Co-Produced by Annie Goldson | Kim Dotcom: Caught in the Web | |
| 2017 | Rebecca Barry, Madeleine Hetherton, Hollie Fifer | The Opposition | |
| 2017 | Ansgar Prerich, Eva Kemme, Tobias N. Siebert | Taste of Cement | |
| 2017 | Xu Feixue, Lu Zhixin, Zhang Jun | A Yangtze Landscape | Changjiang |
| 2018 | Paul Damien Williams, Shannon Swan | Gurrumul | |
| 2018 | Mohamed Siam, Myriam Sassine | Amal | |
| 2018 | Talal Derki, Ansgar Frerich, Eva Kemme, Tobias N. Siebert, Hans Robert Eisenhauer | Of Fathers and Sons | |
| 2018 | Hikaru Toda, Elhum Shakerifar | Of Love & Law | |
| 2018 | Anushka Meenakshi, Iswar Srikumar, Manas Malhotra | Up Down & Sideways | kho ki pa lü |
| 2019 | Philppe Bellaïche, Rachel Leah Jones, Paul Cadieux, Joëlle Bertossa | Advocate | |
| 2019 | Viktor Kossakovsky, Aimara Reques, Heino Deckert, Sigrid Dyekjær | Aquarela | |
| 2019 | Daniel Gordon, Sarah Thomson, Nick Batzias, Virginia Whitwell, John Battsek | The Australian Dream | |
| 2019 | Negar Eskandarfar, Farzad Khoshdast | Narrow Red Line | |
| 2019 | Nanfu Wang, Jialing Zhang, Julie Goldman, Christoph Jörg, Christopher Clements, Carolyn Hepburn | One Child Nation | |