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| Year | Film | Director(s) | Country |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
1970 (43rd): 
| 1970 (43rd) | Woodstock | Michael Wadleigh |  สหรัฐ |
| 1970 (43rd) | Chariots of the Gods | Harald Reinl |  เยอรมนีตะวันตก |
| 1970 (43rd) | Jack Johnson | Jimmy Jacobs |  สหรัฐ |
| 1970 (43rd) | King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis | Ely Landau |  สหรัฐ |
| 1970 (43rd) | Say Goodbye | David H. Vowell |  สหรัฐ |
1971 (44th): 
| 1971 (44th) | The Hellstrom Chronicle | Walon Green |  สหรัฐ |
| 1971 (44th) | Alaska Wilderness Lake | Alan Landsburg |  สหรัฐ |
| 1971 (44th) | The Sorrow and the Pity | Marcel Ophüls |  ฝรั่งเศส |
| 1971 (44th) | On Any Sunday | Bruce Brown |  สหรัฐ |
| 1971 (44th) | Ra | Lennart Ehrenborg and Thor Heyerdahl |  สวีเดน /  นอร์เวย์ |
1972 (45th): 
| 1972 (45th) | Marjoe | Howard Smith and Sarah Kernochan |  สหรัฐ |
| 1972 (45th) | Ape and Super-Ape | Bert Haanstra |  เนเธอร์แลนด์ |
| 1972 (45th) | Malcolm X | Arnold Perl |  สหรัฐ |
| 1972 (45th) | Manson | Robert Hendrickson and Laurence Merrick |  สหรัฐ |
| 1972 (45th) | The Silent Revolution | Eckehard Munck |  เยอรมนีตะวันตก |
1973 (46th): 
| 1973 (46th) | The Great American Cowboy | Kieth Merrill |  สหรัฐ |
| 1973 (46th) | Always a New Beginning | John D. Goodell |  สหรัฐ |
| 1973 (46th) | Journey to the Outer Limits | Alexander Grasshoff |  สหรัฐ |
| 1973 (46th) | Battle of Berlin | Franz Baake and Jost von Morr |  เยอรมนีตะวันตก |
| 1973 (46th) | Walls of Fire | Herbert Kline and Edmund Penney |  สหรัฐ |
1974 (47th): 
| 1974 (47th) | Hearts and Minds | Peter Davis |  สหรัฐ |
| 1974 (47th) | Antonia: A Portrait of the Woman | Judy Collins and Jill Godmilow |  สหรัฐ |
| 1974 (47th) | The Challenge... A Tribute to Modern Art | Herbert Kline |  สหรัฐ |
| 1974 (47th) | The 81st Blow | Haim Gouri |  อิสราเอล |
| 1974 (47th) | The Wild and the Brave | Eugene S. Jones |  สหรัฐ |
1975 (48th): 
| 1975 (48th) | The Man Who Skied Down Everest | F. R. Crawley, James Hager and Dale Hartlebe |  แคนาดา |
| 1975 (48th) | The California Reich | Keith Critchlow and Walter F. Parkes |  สหรัฐ |
| 1975 (48th) | Fighting for Our Lives | Glen Pearcy |  สหรัฐ |
| 1975 (48th) | The Incredible Machine | Irwin Rosten and Ed Spiegel |  สหรัฐ |
| 1975 (48th) | The Other Half of the Sky: A China Memoir | Shirley MacLaine and Claudia Weill |  สหรัฐ |
1976 (49th): 
| 1976 (49th) | Harlan County, USA | Barbara Kopple |  สหรัฐ |
| 1976 (49th) | Hollywood on Trial | David Helpern |  สหรัฐ |
| 1976 (49th) | Off the Edge | Michael Firth |  นิวซีแลนด์ |
| 1976 (49th) | People of the Wind | Anthony Howarth and David Koff |  สหรัฐ |
| 1976 (49th) | Volcano: An Inquiry into the Life and Death of Malcolm Lowry | Donald Brittain and John Kramer |  แคนาดา |
1977 (50th): 
| 1977 (50th) | Who Are the DeBolts? And Where Did They Get Nineteen Kids? | John Korty |  สหรัฐ |
| 1977 (50th) | The Children of Theatre Street | Robert Dornhelm and Earle Mack |  สหรัฐ |
| 1977 (50th) | High Grass Circus | Tony Ianzelo and Torben Schioler |  แคนาดา |
| 1977 (50th) | Homage to Chagall: The Colours of Love | Harry Rasky |  แคนาดา |
| 1977 (50th) | Union Maids | Jim Klein, Miles Mogulescu and Julia Reichert |  สหรัฐ |
1978 (51st): 
| 1978 (51st) | Scared Straight! | Arnold Shapiro |  สหรัฐ |
| 1978 (51st) | Mysterious Castles of Clay | Joan Root and Alan Root |  สหรัฐ |
| 1978 (51st) | Raoni | Jean-Pierre Dutilleux and Luiz Carlos Saldanha |  ฝรั่งเศส |
| 1978 (51st) | Le vent des amoureux | Albert Lamorisse |  ฝรั่งเศส |
| 1978 (51st) | With Babies and Banners: Story of the Women's Emergency Brigade | Lorraine Gray |  สหรัฐ |
1979 (52nd): 
| 1979 (52nd) | Best Boy | Ira Wohl |  สหรัฐ |
| 1979 (52nd) | Generation on the Wind | David Vassar |  สหรัฐ |
| 1979 (52nd) | Going the Distance | Paul Cowan |  แคนาดา |
| 1979 (52nd) | The Killing Ground | Steve Singer |  สหรัฐ |
| 1979 (52nd) | The War at Home | Glenn Silber |  สหรัฐ |