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| Year | Film | Name(s) |
| --- | --- | --- |
1990 (63rd): 
| 1990 (63rd) | American Dream | Barbara Kopple and Arthur Cohn |
| 1990 (63rd) | Berkeley in the Sixties | Mark Kitchell |
| 1990 (63rd) | Building Bombs | Mark Mori and Susan Robinson |
| 1990 (63rd) | Forever Activists: Stories from the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade | Judith Montell |
| 1990 (63rd) | Waldo Salt: A Screenwriter's Journey | Robert Hillmann and Eugene Corr |
1991 (64th): 
| 1991 (64th) | In the Shadow of the Stars | Allie Light and Irving Saraf |
| 1991 (64th) | Death on the Job | Vince DiPersio and William Guttentag |
| 1991 (64th) | Doing Time: Life Inside the Big House | Alan Raymond and Susan Raymond |
| 1991 (64th) | The Restless Conscience: Resistance to Hitler Within Germany 1933-1945 | Hava Kohav Beller |
| 1991 (64th) | Wild by Law | Lawrence Hott and Diane Garey |
1992 (65th): 
| 1992 (65th) | The Panama Deception | Barbara Trent and David Kasper |
| 1992 (65th) | Changing Our Minds: The Story of Dr. Evelyn Hooker | David Haugland |
| 1992 (65th) | Fires of Kuwait | Sally Dundas |
| 1992 (65th) | Liberators: Fighting on Two Fronts in World War II | Bill Miles and Nina Rosenblum |
| 1992 (65th) | Music for the Movies: Bernard Herrmann | Margaret Smilow and Roma Baran |
1993 (66th): 
| 1993 (66th) | I Am a Promise: The Children of Stanton Elementary School | Susan Raymond and Alan Raymond |
| 1993 (66th) | The Broadcast Tapes of Dr. Peter | David Paperny and Arthur Ginsberg |
| 1993 (66th) | Children of Fate | Susan Todd and Andrew Young |
| 1993 (66th) | For Better or For Worse | David Collier and Betsy Thompson |
| 1993 (66th) | The War Room | D. A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus |
1994 (67th): 
| 1994 (67th) | Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision | Freida Lee Mock |
| 1994 (67th) | Complaints of a Dutiful Daughter | Deborah Hoffmann |
| 1994 (67th) | D-Day Remembered | Charles Guggenheim |
| 1994 (67th) | Freedom on My Mind | Connie Field and Marilyn Mulford |
| 1994 (67th) | A Great Day in Harlem | Jean Bach |
1995 (68th): 
| 1995 (68th) | Anne Frank Remembered | Jon Blair |
| 1995 (68th) | The Battle Over Citizen Kane | Thomas Lennon and Michael Epstein |
| 1995 (68th) | Fiddlefest: Roberta Tzavaras and Her East Harlem Violin Program | Allan Miller and Walter Scheuer |
| 1995 (68th) | Hank Aaron: Chasing the Dream | Mike Tollin and Fredric Golding |
| 1995 (68th) | Troublesome Creek: A Midwestern | Jeanne Jordan and Steven Ascher |
1996 (69th): 
| 1996 (69th) | When We Were Kings | Leon Gast and David Sonenberg |
| 1996 (69th) | The Line King: The Al Hirschfeld Story | Susan W. Dryfoos |
| 1996 (69th) | Mandela | Jo Menell and Angus Gibson |
| 1996 (69th) | Suzanne Farrell: Elusive Muse | Anne Belle and Deborah Dickson |
| 1996 (69th) | Tell the Truth and Run: George Seldes and the American Press | Rick Goldsmith |
1997 (70th): 
| 1997 (70th) | The Long Way Home | Marvin Hier and Richard Trank |
| 1997 (70th) | Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life | Michael Paxton |
| 1997 (70th) | Colors Straight Up | Michèle Ohayon and Julia Schachter |
| 1997 (70th) | 4 Little Girls | Spike Lee and Sam Pollard |
| 1997 (70th) | Waco: The Rules of Engagement | Dan Gifford and William Gazecki |
1998 (71st): 
| 1998 (71st) | The Last Days | James Moll and Ken Lipper |
| 1998 (71st) | Dancemaker | Matthew Diamond and Jerry Kupfer |
| 1998 (71st) | The Farm: Angola, U.S.A. | Jonathan Stack and Liz Garbus |
| 1998 (71st) | Lenny Bruce: Swear to Tell the Truth | Robert B. Weide |
| 1998 (71st) | Regret to Inform | Barbara Sonneborn and Janet Cole |
1999 (72nd): 
| 1999 (72nd) | One Day in September | Arthur Cohn and Kevin Macdonald |
| 1999 (72nd) | Buena Vista Social Club | Wim Wenders and Ulrich Felsberg |
| 1999 (72nd) | Genghis Blues | Roko Belic and Adrian Belic |
| 1999 (72nd) | On the Ropes | Nanette Burstein and Brett Morgen |
| 1999 (72nd) | Speaking in Strings | Paola di Florio and Lilibet Foster |