# NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Documentary

This article lists the winners and nominees for the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Documentary.

## History

This award was first given in 2008, before being discontinued after the 2009 ceremony. The award returned during the 2017 ceremony, this time honoring film and television documentaries separately.

## Winners and nominees

Winners are listed first and highlighted in bold.

### 2000s

| Year | Documentary |
| 2008 |
| 2008 | Darfur Now |
| 2008 | Bastards of the Party |
| 2008 | Desert Bayou |
| 2008 | Price of Sugar |
| 2008 | Sicko≠ |
| 2009 | |
| 2009 | Good Hair |
| 2009 | Capitalism: A Love Story |
| 2009 | Crips and Bloods: Made in America |
| 2009 | Crude |
| 2009 | More Than a Game |

### 2010s
#### Film

| Year | Documentary |
| 2017 |
| 2017 | 13th≠ |
| 2017 | I Am Not Your Negro≠ |
| 2017 | Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise |
| 2017 | Miss Sharon Jones! |
| 2017 | Olympic Pride, American Prejudice |
| 2018 | |
| 2018 | Step |
| 2018 | I Called Him Morgan |
| 2018 | Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Black Colleges and Universities |
| 2018 | The Rape of Recy Taylor |
| 2018 | Whose Streets? |
| 2019 | |
| 2019 | Amazing Grace |
| 2019 | Making The Five Heartbeats |
| 2019 | Quincy |
| 2019 | RBG≠ |
| 2019 | Whitney |

#### Television

| Year | Documentary |
| 2017 |
| 2017 | Roots: A New Vision |
| 2017 | Major League Legends: Hank Aaron |
| 2017 | Policing the Police |
| 2017 | Roots: A History Revealed |
| 2017 | Streets of Compton |
| 2018 | |
| 2018 | The 44th President: In His Own Words |
| 2018 | Birth of a Movement |
| 2018 | Black Love |
| 2018 | The Defiant Ones |
| 2018 | What the Health |
| 2019 | |
| 2019 | Say Her Name: The Life and Death of Sandra Bland |
| 2019 | Hope & Fury: MLK, The Movement and the Media |
| 2019 | King in the Wilderness |
| 2019 | Shut Up & Dribble |
| 2019 | Time for Ilhan |

### 2020s
#### Film

| Year | Documentary |
| 2020 |
| 2020 | Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am |
| 2020 | Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool |
| 2020 | The Black Godfather |
| 2020 | The Apollo |
| 2020 | True Justice: Bryan Stevenson's Fight for Equality |
| 2021 | |
| 2021 | John Lewis: Good Trouble |
| 2021 | All In: The Fight for Democracy |
| 2021 | Coded Bias |
| 2021 | Mr. Soul! |
| 2021 | On the Record |
| 2022 | |
| 2022 | Barbara Lee: Speaking Truth to Power |
| 2022 | Attica≠ |
| 2022 | My Name Is Pauli Murray |
| 2022 | Summer of Soul± |
| 2022 | Tina |

#### Television

| Year | Documentary |
| 2020 |
| 2020 | Hitsville: The Making of Motown |
| 2020 | Free Meek |
| 2020 | Homecoming: A Film by Beyoncé |
| 2020 | Martin: The Legacy of a King |
| 2020 | ReMastered: The Two Killings of Sam Cooke |
| 2021 | |
| 2021 | The Last Dance |
| 2021 | And She Could Be Next |
| 2021 | Black Love |
| 2021 | Enslaved: The Lost History of the Transatlantic Slave Trade |
| 2021 | Unsung |
| 2022 | |
| 2022 | High on the Hog: How African American Cuisine Transformed America |
| 2022 | 1971: The Year Music Changed Everything |
| 2022 | American Masters: How It Feels to Be True |
| 2022 | Blood Brothers: Malcolm X and Muhammad Ali |
| 2022 | Insecure Documentary |

## Footnotes

* ≠ indicates an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature nomination
* ± indicates an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature win