# DGC Allan King Award for Best Documentary Film

The DGC Allan King Award for Best Documentary Film is an annual Canadian award, presented by the Directors Guild of Canada to honour the year's best direction in documentary films in Canada. The award was renamed in 2010 to honour influential Canadian documentarian Allan King following his death in 2009. Individual episodes of documentary television series have occasionally been nominated for the award, although nominees and winners are usually theatrical documentary films.

## Winners and nominees
### 2000s

| Year | Film | Director |
| 2002 |
| 2002 | Nuliajuk: Mother of the Sea Beasts | John Houston |
| 2002 | Exhibit A: Secrets of Forensic Science: "Blast" | Harvey Crossland |
| 2002 | Joshua Slocum: Around Alone | Peter Rowe |
| 2002 | Tokyo Girls | Penelope Buitenhuis |
| 2003 |
| 2003 | Prisoner of Paradise | Malcolm Clarke |
| 2003 | Death of a Warrior | Manfred Becker |
| 2003 | Mob Stories: "Rocco Perri, King of the Bootleggers" | Mitchell Gabourie |
| 2003 | Samuel Cunard: Bridging the Atlantic | Peter Rowe |
| 2004 |
| 2004 | Dying at Grace | Allan King |
| 2004 | The Invisible Machine | Barbara Doran |
| 2004 | Neighbours | Manfred Becker |
| 2004 | The World Stopped Watching | Peter Raymont |
| 2005 |
| 2005 | Shake Hands with the Devil: The Journey of Roméo Dallaire | Peter Raymont |
| 2005 | Continuous Journey | Ali Kazimi |
| 2005 | Popcorn with Maple Syrup | Peter Rowe |
| 2005 | The Siege | Manfred Becker |
| 2006 |
| 2006 | Turning Points of History: "Hitler's Children" | Manfred Becker |
| 2006 | Ken Leishman: The Flying Bandit | Norma Bailey |
| 2006 | Memory for Max, Claire, Ida and Company | Allan King |
| 2006 | Runaway Grooms | Ali Kazimi |
| 2007 |
| 2007 | Sharkwater | Rob Stewart |
| 2007 | EMPz 4 Life | Allan King |
| 2007 | Killer's Paradise | Giselle Portenier |
| 2007 | Recreating Eden | Elise Swerhone |
| 2008 |
| 2008 | A Promise to the Dead: The Exile Journey of Ariel Dorfman | Peter Raymont |
| 2008 | Fatherland | Manfred Becker |
| 2008 | Iris Chang: The Rape of Nanking | Bill Spachic |
| 2008 | Triage: Dr. James Orbinski's Humanitarian Dilemma | Patrick Reed |
| 2009 |
| 2009 | Air India 182 | Sturla Gunnarsson |
| 2009 | James Houston: The Most Interesting Group of People You'll Ever Meet | John Houston |
| 2009 | Malls R Us | Helene Klodawsky |
| 2009 | Prom Night in Mississippi | Paul Saltzman |

### 2010s

| Year | Film | Director |
| 2010 |
| 2010 | The Experimental Eskimos | Barry Greenwald |
| 2010 | Ballet High | Elise Swerhone |
| 2010 | Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould | Peter Raymont |
| 2010 | Love Letters | Tim Southam |
| 2011 |
| 2011 | Force of Nature: The David Suzuki Movie | Sturla Gunnarsson |
| 2011 | The Nature of Things: "One Ocean: The Birth of an Ocean" | Mike Downie |
| 2011 | Paul Quarrington: Life in Music | Bert Kish |
| 2011 | Where Did I Put ... My Memory? | Barbara Doran |
| 2012 |
| 2012 | West Wind: The Vision of Tom Thomson | Peter Raymont |
| 2012 | Desert Riders | Vic Sarin |
| 2012 | Peace Out | Charles Wilkinson |
| 2012 | Wiebo's War | David York |
| 2013 |
| 2013 | Stories We Tell | Sarah Polley |
| 2013 | Fight Like Soldiers Die Like Children | Peter Raymont |
| 2013 | Playing a Dangerous Game | John Walker |
| 2013 | Vanishing Point | Stephen A. Smith, Julia Szucs |
| 2014 |
| 2014 | Watermark | Jennifer Baichwal, Edward Burtynsky |
| 2014 | Arctic Defenders | John Walker |
| 2014 | Chi | Anne Wheeler |
| 2014 | Secretariat's Jockey: Ron Turcotte | Phil Comeau |
| 2015 |
| 2015 | Super Duper Alice Cooper | Reginald Harkema |
| 2015 | Monsoon | Sturla Gunnarsson |
| 2015 | Shameless Propaganda | Robert Lower |
| 2015 | The Boy from Geita | Vic Sarin |
| 2016 |
| 2016 | Guantanamo's Child: Omar Khadr | Patrick Reed, Michelle Shephard |
| 2016 | Haida Gwaii: On the Edge of the World | Charles Wilkinson |
| 2016 | Ninth Floor | Mina Shum |
| 2016 | Painted Land: In Search of the Group of Seven | Phyllis Ellis |
| 2017 |
| 2017 | All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception and the Spirit of I. F. Stone | Fred Peabody |
| 2017 | The Apology | Tiffany Hsiung |
| 2017 | Gun Runners | Anjali Nayar |
| 2017 | Quebec My Country Mon Pays | John Walker |
| 2018 |
| 2018 | Long Time Running | Jennifer Baichwal, Nicholas de Pencier |
| 2018 | Gift | Robin McKenna |
| 2018 | Silas | Anjali Nayar |
| 2018 | Unarmed Verses | Charles Officer |
| 2018 | What Walaa Wants | Christy Garland |
| 2019 |
| 2019 | Anthropocene: The Human Epoch | Jennifer Baichwal, Nicholas de Pencier, Edward Burtynsky |
| 2019 | Atautsikut: Leaving None Behind | John Houston |
| 2019 | Killing Patient Zero | Laurie Lynd |
| 2019 | Prey | Matt Gallagher |
| 2019 | The Stone Speakers | Igor Drljaca |

### 2020s

| Year | Film | Director |
| 2020 |
| 2020 | Inconvenient Indian | Michelle Latimer |
| 2020 | The Bull (El Toro) | Danielle Sturk |
| 2020 | Haida Modern | Charles Wilkinson |
| 2020 | High Wire | Claude Guilmain |
| 2020 | This Is Not a Movie | Yung Chang |
| 2021 |
| 2021 | Wuhan Wuhan | Yung Chang |
| 2021 | In the Rumbling Belly of Motherland | Brishkay Ahmed |
| 2021 | No Ordinary Man | Chase Joynt, Aisling Chin-Yee |
| 2021 | The Silence (Le Silence) | Renée Blanchar |
| 2021 | Someone Like Me | Sean Horlor, Steve J. Adams |
| 2021 | Stateless | Michèle Stephenson |
| 2022 |
| 2022 | Buffy Sainte-Marie: Carry It On | Madison Thomas |
| 2022 | Cliff: A Portrait of an Artist | Adam Brooks |
| 2022 | Don't Come Searching | Andrew Moir |
| 2022 | Framing Agnes | Chase Joynt |
| 2022 | Handle With Care: The Legend of the Notic Streetball Crew | Jeremy Schaulin-Rioux |
| 2022 | Unloved: Huronia's Forgotten Children | Barri Cohen |
| 2023 |
| 2023 | To Kill a Tiger | Nisha Pahuja |
| 2023 | Batata | Noura Kevorkian |
| 2023 | Category: Woman | Phyllis Ellis |
| 2023 | Someone Lives Here | Zack Russell |
| 2023 | WaaPaKe | Jules Arita Koostachin |
| 2024 |
| 2024 | Swan Song | Chelsea McMullan |
| 2024 | Adrianne and the Castle | Shannon Walsh |
| 2024 | Any Other Way: The Jackie Shane Story | Michael Mabbott, Lucah Rosenberg-Lee |
| 2024 | Disco's Revenge | Omar Majeed, Peter Mishara |
| 2024 | A Quiet Girl | Adrian Wills |
| 2024 | An Unfinished Journey | Aeyliya Husain |