Film Dokumenter Terbaik (National Board of Review Award)

Pemenang 
 1940: The Fight for Life
 1941: Target for Tonight; The Forgotten Village; Ku Kan; The Land
 1942: Moscow Strikes Back; Native Land; Word in Action
 1943: Desert Victory; Battle of Russia; Prelude to War; Saludos Amigos; The Silent Village
 1944: Memphis Belle: A Story of a Flying Fortress; Attack! The Battle for New Britain; With the Marines at Tarawa; Battle for the Marianas; Tunisian Victory

 1980an 
 Tahun (acara) Pemenang Sutradara 1987 (59)  Hail! Hail! Rock ‘n’ Roll  Taylor Hackford 1988 (60)  The Thin Blue Line  Errol Morris 1989 (61)  Roger & Me  Michael Moore

 1990an 
 Tahun (acara) Pemenang Sutradara 1990 (62)  1991 (63)  Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse  Fax Bahr dan George Hickenlooper 1992 (64)  Brother’s Keeper  Joe Berlinger dan Bruce Sinofsky 1993 (65)  The War Room  Chris Hegedus dan D. A. Pennebaker 1994 (66)  Hoop Dreams  Steve James 1995 (67)  Crumb  Terry Zwigoff 1996 (68)  Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills  Joe Berlinger dan Bruce Sinofsky 1997 (69)  Fast, Cheap & Out of Control  Errol Morris 1998 (70)  Wild Man Blues  Barbara Kopple 1999 (71)  Buena Vista Social Club  Wim Wenders

 2000an 
 Tahun (acara) Pemenang Sutradara 2000 (72)  The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg  Aviva Kempner 2001 (73)  The Endurance  George Butler 2002 (74)  Bowling for Columbine  Michael Moore 2003 (75)  The Fog of War  Errol Morris 2004 (76)  Born into Brothels  Zana Briski dan Ross Kauffman 2005 (77) March of the Penguins (La marche de l’empereur)Luc Jacquet 2006 (78)  An Inconvenient Truth  Davis Guggenheim 2007 (79)  Body of War  Phil Donahue dan Ellen Spiro 2008 (80)  Man on Wire  James Marsh 2009 (81)  The Cove  Louie Psihoyos

 2010an 
 Tahun (acara) Pemenang Sutradara 2010 (82)  Waiting for “Superman”  Davis Guggenheim 2011 (83)  Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory  Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky 2012 (84)  Searching for Sugar Man  Malik Bendjelloul 2013 (85)  Stories We Tell  Sarah Polley 2014 (86)  Life Itself  Steve James 2015 (87)  Amy  Asif Kapadia 2016 (88)  O.J.: Made in America  Ezra Edelman 2017 (89)  Jane  Brett Morgen

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