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| Year | Film | Name(s) |
| --- | --- | --- |
2000 (73rd): 
| 2000 (73rd) | Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport | Mark Jonathan Harris and Deborah Oppenheimer |
| 2000 (73rd) | Legacy | Tod Lending |
| 2000 (73rd) | Long Night's Journey into Day | Deborah Hoffmann and Frances Reid |
| 2000 (73rd) | Scottsboro: An American Tragedy | Daniel Anker and Barak Goodman |
| 2000 (73rd) | Sound and Fury | Josh Aronson and Roger Weisberg |
2001 (74th): 
| 2001 (74th) | Murder on a Sunday Morning | Jean-Xavier de Lestrade and Denis Poncet |
| 2001 (74th) | Children Underground | Edet Belzberg |
| 2001 (74th) | LaLee's Kin: The Legacy of Cotton | Deborah Dickson and Susan Frömke |
| 2001 (74th) | Promises | B.Z. Goldberg and Justine Shapiro |
| 2001 (74th) | War Photographer | Christian Frei |
2002 (75th): 
| 2002 (75th) | Bowling for Columbine | Michael Moore and Michael Donovan |
| 2002 (75th) | Daughter from Danang | Gail Dolgin and Vicente Franco |
| 2002 (75th) | Prisoner of Paradise | Malcolm Clarke and Stuart Sender |
| 2002 (75th) | Spellbound | Jeffrey Blitz and Sean Welch |
| 2002 (75th) | Winged Migration | Jacques Perrin |
2003 (76th): 
| 2003 (76th) | The Fog of War | Errol Morris and Michael Williams |
| 2003 (76th) | Balseros | Carlos Bosch and Josep Maria Domenech |
| 2003 (76th) | Capturing the Friedmans | Andrew Jarecki and Marc Smerling |
| 2003 (76th) | My Architect | Nathaniel Kahn and Susan R. Behr |
| 2003 (76th) | The Weather Underground | Sam Green and Bill Siegel |
2004 (77th): 
| 2004 (77th) | Born into Brothels | Ross Kauffman and Zana Briski |
| 2004 (77th) | The Story of the Weeping Camel | Byambasuren Davaa and Luigi Falorni |
| 2004 (77th) | Super Size Me | Morgan Spurlock |
| 2004 (77th) | Tupac: Resurrection | Karolyn Ali and Lauren Lazin |
| 2004 (77th) | Twist of Faith | Kirby Dick and Eddie Schmidt |
2005 (78th): 
| 2005 (78th) | March of the Penguins | Luc Jacquet and Yves Darondeau |
| 2005 (78th) | Darwin's Nightmare | Hubert Sauper |
| 2005 (78th) | Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room | Alex Gibney and Jason Kliot |
| 2005 (78th) | Murderball | Henry Alex Rubin and Dana Adam Shapiro |
| 2005 (78th) | Street Fight | Marshall Curry |
2006 (79th): 
| 2006 (79th) | An Inconvenient Truth | Davis Guggenheim |
| 2006 (79th) | Deliver Us from Evil | Amy Berg, Frank Donner, and Matthew Cooke |
| 2006 (79th) | Iraq in Fragments | James Longley and Yahya Sinno |
| 2006 (79th) | Jesus Camp | Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady |
| 2006 (79th) | My Country, My Country | Jocelyn Glatzer and Laura Poitras |
2007 (80th): 
| 2007 (80th) | Taxi to the Dark Side | Alex Gibney and Eva Orner |
| 2007 (80th) | No End in Sight | Charles Ferguson and Audrey Marrs |
| 2007 (80th) | Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience | Richard Robbins |
| 2007 (80th) | Sicko | Michael Moore and Meghan O'Hara |
| 2007 (80th) | War/Dance | Sean Fine and Andrea Nix Fine |
2008 (81st): 
| 2008 (81st) | Man on Wire | Simon Chinn and James Marsh |
| 2008 (81st) | The Betrayal (Nerakhoon) | Ellen Kuras and Thavisouk Phrasavath |
| 2008 (81st) | Encounters at the End of the World | Werner Herzog and Henry Kaiser |
| 2008 (81st) | The Garden | Scott Hamilton Kennedy |
| 2008 (81st) | Trouble the Water | Carl Deal and Tia Lessin |
2009 (82nd): 
| 2009 (82nd) | The Cove | Louie Psihoyos and Fisher Stevens |
| 2009 (82nd) | Burma VJ | Anders Østergaard and Lise Lense-Møller |
| 2009 (82nd) | Food, Inc. | Robert Kenner and Elise Pearlstein |
| 2009 (82nd) | The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers | Judith Ehrlich and Rick Goldsmith |
| 2009 (82nd) | Which Way Home | Rebecca Cammisa |