Jabarkan Pemenang dan nominasi dari Academy Award untuk Film Pendek Dokumenter Terbaik

War Clouds in the Pacific

To the People of the United States

1944 - With the Marines at Tarawa

1945 - Hitler Lives - Gordon Hollingshead

To the Shores of Iwo Jima

1946 - Seeds of Destiny

1948 - Toward Independence - United States Army

A Chance To Live - Richard de Rochemont

So Much for So Little - Edward Selzer

1950 - Why Korea? - Edmund Reek

The Fight: Science Against Cancer

1951 - Benjy - Fred Zinnemann

1952 - Neighbours - Norman McLaren

1953 - The Alaskan Eskimo - Walt Disney

1955 - Men against the Arctic - Walt Disney

1956 - The True Story of the Civil War - Louis Clyde Stoumen

The House Without a Name

1958 - Ama Girls - Ben Sharpsteen

1959 - Glass - Bert Haanstra

1960 - Giuseppina - James Hill

En by ved navn København

1961 - Project Hope - Frank P. Bibas

1962 - Dylan Thomas - Jack Howells

The Road to the Wall

1963 - Chagall - Simon Schiffrin

The Five Cities of June

1964 - Nine from Little Rock - Charles Guggenheim

140 Days Under the World

1965 - To Be Alive! - Francis Thompson

1966 - A Year Toward Tomorrow - Edmond A. Levy

Részletek J.S. Bach Máté passiójából

1967 - The Redwoods - Mark Harris dan Trevor Greenwood

See You at the Pillar

While I Run This Race

1968 - Why Man Creates - Saul Bass

The House That Ananda Built

A Way Out of the Wilderness

1969 - Czechoslovakia 1968 - Denis Sanders dan Robert M. Fresco

An Impression of John Steinbeck: Writer

Jenny Is a Good Thing

1970 - Interviews with My Lai Veterans - Joseph Strick

A Long Way from Nowhere

1971 - Sentinels of Silence - Manuel Arango dan Robert Amram

The Numbers Start with the River

1972 - This Tiny World - Charles Huguenot van der Linden dan Martina Huguenot van der Linden

1973 - Princeton: A Search for Answers - Julian Krainin dan DeWitt L. Sage, Jr.

1974 - Don't - Robin Lehman

1975 - The End of the Game - Claire Wilbur dan Robin Lehman

Millions of Years Ahead of Man

1976 - Number Our Days - Lynne Littman dan Barbara Myerhoff

The End of the Road

1977 - Gravity Is My Enemy - John Joseph dan Jan Stussy

Agueda Martinez: Our People, Our Country

Of Time, Tombs and Treasures

1978 - The Flight of the Gossamer Condor - Jacqueline Phillips Shedd dan Ben Shedd

The Divided Trail: A Native American Odyssey

1979 - Paul Robeson: Tribute to an Artist - Saul J. Turell

1980 - Karl Hess: Toward Liberty - Roland Hallé dan Peter W. Ladue

The Eruption of Mount St. Helens!

1981 - Close Harmony - Nigel Noble

1982 - If You Love This Planet - Edward Le Lorrain dan Terri Nash

The Klan: A Legacy of Hate in America

To Live or Let Die

1983 - Flamenco at 5:15 - Cynthia Scott dan Adam Symansky

In the Nuclear Shadow: What Can the Children Tell Us?

Spaces: The Architecture of Paul Rudolph

1984 - The Stone Carvers - Marjorie Hunt dan Paul Wagner

The Children of Soong Ching Ling

Code Gray: Ethical Dilemmas in Nursing

1985 - Witness to War: Dr. Charlie Clements - David Goodman

Keats and His Nightingale: A Blind Date

Making Overtures: The Story of a Community Orchestra

The Wizard of the Strings

1986 - Women--for America, for the World - Vivienne Verdon-Roe

Red Grooms: Sunflower in a Hothouse

1987 - Young at Heart - Sue Marx dan Pamela Conn

Frances Steloff: Memoirs of a Bookseller

In the Wee Wee Hours...

1988 - You Don't Have to Die - William Guttentag dan Malcolm Clarke

1989 - The Johnstown Flood - Charles Guggenheim

Fine Food, Fine Pastries, Open 6 to 9

Yad Vashem: Preserving the Past to Ensure the Future

1990 - Days of Waiting - Steven Okazaki

Rose Kennedy: A Life to Remember

Journey Into Life: The World of the Unborn

1991 - Deadly Deception: General Electric, Nuclear Weapons and Our Environment - Debra Chasnoff

The Mark of the Maker

Memorial: Letters from American Soldiers

1992 - Educating Peter - Thomas C. Goodwin dan Gerardine Wurzburg

When Abortion Was Illegal: Untold Stories - Dorothy Fadiman

At the Edge of Conquest: The Journey of Chief Wai-Wai - Geoffrey O'Connor

Beyond Imagining: Margaret Anderson and the 'Little Review' - Wendy L. Weinberg

The Colours of My Father: A Portrait of Sam Borenstein - Richard Elson dan Sally Bochner

1993 - Defending Our Lives - Margaret Lazarus, Renner Wunderlich

Blood Ties: The Life and Work of Sally Mann

1994 - A Time for Justice - Charles Guggenheim

School of the Americas Assassins

1995 - One Survivor Remembers - Kary Antholis

Jim Dine: A Self-Portrait on the Walls

Never Give Up: The 20th Century Odyssey of Herbert Zipper

1996 - Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O'Brien - Jessica Yu

Special Effects: Anything Can Happen

The Wild Bunch: An Album in Montage

1997 - A Story of Healing - Donna Dewey, Carol Pasternak

Alaska: Spirit of the Wild

Family Video Diaries: Daughter of the Bride

Still Kicking: The Fabulous Palm Springs Follies

1998 - The Personals: Improvisations on Romance in the Golden Years - Keiko Ibi

A Place in the Land

Sunrise Over Tiananmen Square - National Film Board of Canada

1999 - King Gimp - Susan Hannah Hadary, William A. Whiteford

The Wildest Show in the South: The Angola Prison Rodeo

2000 - Big Mama - Tracy Seretean

On Tiptoe: Gentle Steps to Freedom

The Man on Lincoln's Nose

2001 - Thoth - Sarah Kernochan dan Lynn Appelle

Artists and Orphans: A True Drama

2002 - Twin Towers - Bill Guttentag, Robert David Port, Robert Port

The Collector of Bedford Street - Welcome Change Productions - Alice Elliott

Mighty Times: The Legacy of Rosa Parks - Tell the Truth Pictures - Robert Hudson - Robert Houston

Why Can't We Be a Family Again? - Roger Weisberg, Murray Nossel

2003 - Chernobyl Heart - Maryann DeLeo

Asylum - Sandy McLeod dan Gini Reticker

Ferry Tales - Katja Esson

2004 - Mighty Times: The Children's March – Robert Hudson dan Bobby Houston

Autism Is a World – Gerardine Wurzburg

The Children of Leningradsky – Hanna Polak dan Andrzej Celinski

Hardwood – Hubert Davis dan Erin Faith Young

Sister Rose's Passion – Oren Jacoby dan Steve Kalafer

2005 - A Note of Triumph: The Golden Age of Norman Corwin

The Death of Kevin Carter: Casualty of the Bang Bang Club

2006 - The Blood of Yingzhou District

Two Hands: The Leon Fleisher Story

The Conscience of Nhem En

The Witness - From the Balcony of Room 306

2010-an 2010 — Strangers No More - Karen Goodman dan Kirk Simon Killing in the Name - Jed Rothstein

Poster Girl - Sara Nesson dan Mitchell Block

Sun Come Up - Jennifer Redfearn dan Tim Metzger

The Warriors of Qiugang - Ruby Yang dan Thomas Lennon2011 — Saving Face - Daniel Junge dan Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy The Barber of Birmingham: Foot Soldier of the Civil Rights Movement - Robin Fryday dan Gail Dolgin

God Is the Bigger Elvis - Rebecca Cammisa dan Julie Anderson

Incident in New Baghdad - James Spione

The Tsunami dan the Cherry Blossom - Lucy Walker dan Kira Carstensen2012 — Inocente - Sean Fine dan Andrea Nix Fine Kings Point - Sari Gilman dan Jedd Wider

Mondays at Racine - Cynthia Wade dan Robin Honan

Open Heart - Kief Davidson dan Cori Shepherd Stern

Redemption - Jon Alpert dan Matthew O'Neill2013 — The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life - Malcolm Clarke dan Nicholas Reed CaveDigger - Jeffrey Karoff

Facing Fear - Jason Cohen

Karama Has No Walls - Sara Ishaq

Prison Terminal: The Last Days of Private Jack Hall - Edgar Barens2014 — Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1 - Ellen Goosenberg Kent dan Dana Perry Joanna - Aneta Kopacz

Our Curse - Tomasz Śliwiński dan Maciej Ślesicki

The Reaper (La Parka) - Gabriel Serra Arguello

White Earth - J. Christian Jensen2015 — A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness - Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy Body Team 12 - David Darg dan Bryn Mooser

Chau, Beyond the Lines - Courtney Marsh dan Jerry Franck

Claude Lanzmann: Spectres of the Shoah - Adam Benzine

Last Day of Freedom - Dee Hibbert-Jones dan Nomi Talisman

2016 — The White Helmets - Orlando von Einsiedel dan Joanna Natasegara Extremis - Dan Krauss

4.1 Miles - Daphne Matziaraki

Joe's Violin - Kahane Cooperman dan Raphaela Neihausen

Watani: My Homeland - Marcel Mettelsiefen dan Stephen Ellis

2017 — Heaven Is a Traffic Jam on the 405 - Frank Stiefel Edith+Eddie - Laura Checkoway dan Thomas Lee Wright

Heroin(e) - Elaine McMillion Sheldon dan Kerrin Sheldon

Knife Skills - Thomas Lennon

Traffic Stop - Kate Davis dan David Heilbroner

2018 — Period. End of Sentence. - Rayka Zehtabchi dan Melissa Berton Black Sheep - Ed Perkins dan Jonathan Chinn

End Game - Rob Epstein dan Jeffrey Friedman

Lifeboat - Skye Fitzgerald dan Bryn Mooser

A Night at the Garden - Marshall Curry

2019 — Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (If You're a Girl) - Carol Dysinger dan Elena Andreicheva In the Absence - Yi Seung-Jun dan Gary Byung-Seok Kam

Life Overtakes Me - John Haptas dan Kristine Samuelson

St. Louis Superman - Smriti Mundhra dan Sami Khan

Walk Run Cha-Cha - Laura Nix dan Colette Sandstedt

2020-an 2020 — Colette - Anthony Giacchino dan Alice Doyard A Concerto Is a Conversation - Ben Proudfoot dan Kris Bowers

Do Not Split - Anders Hammer dan Charlotte Cook

Hunger Ward - Skye Fitzgerald dan Michael Scheuerman

A Love Song for Latasha - Sophia Nahli Allison dan Janice Duncan2021 — The Queen of Basketball - Ben Proudfoot Audible - Matthew Ogens dan Geoff McLean

Lead Me Home - Pedro Kos dan Jon Shenk

Three Songs for Benazir - Elizabeth Mirzaei dan Gulistan Mirzaei

When We Were Bullies - Jay Rosenblatt2022 — The Elephant Whisperers - Kartiki Gonsalves dan Guneet Monga' Haulout - Evgenia Arbugaeva dan Maxim Arbugaev

How Do You Measure a Year? - Jay Rosenblatt

The Martha Mitchell Effect - Anne Alvergue dan Beth Levison

Stranger at the Gate'' - Joshua Seftel dan Conall Jones