Koji su najbolji dokumentarni filmovi u povijesti? Na to pitanje, zbog objektivno subjektivnih razloga, uvijek će biti nezahvalno odgovarati. No, ono što pouzdano znamo jest činjenica o dobitnicima zlatnog kipića – popularnog Oscara – i još uvijek najcjenjenije filmske nagrade, kako u fiktivnim, tako i u nefiktivnim celuloidnim ostvarenjima.
Dobitnici nagrade Oscar kroz godine:
1942. – Zajednički pobjednici:
The Battle of Midway
Kokoda Front Line!
Moscow Strikes Back
Prelude to War
1943.
Desert Victory
1944.
The Fighting Lady
1945.
The True Glory
1946.
Nije dodijeljen Oscar
1947.
Design for Death
1948.
The Secret Land
1949.
Daybreak in Udi
1950.
The Titan: Story of Michelangelo
1951.
Kon-Tiki
1952.
The Sea Around Us
1953.
The Living Desert
1954.
The Vanishing Prairie
1955.
Helen Keller in Her Story (poznat i kao The Unconquered)
1956.
The Silent World
1957.
Albert Schweitzer
1958.
White Wilderness
1959.
Serengeti Shall Not Die
1960.
The Horse with the Flying Tail
1961.
Sky Above and Mud Beneath
1962.
Black Fox: The Rise and Fall of Adolf Hitler
1963.
Robert Frost: A Lover’s Quarrel with the World
1964.
World Without Sun
1965.
The Eleanor Roosevelt Story
1966.
The War Game
1967.
The Anderson Platoon
1968.
Journey into Self
1969.
Arthur Rubinstein – The Love of Life
1970.
Woodstock
1971.
The Hellstrom Chronicle
1972.
Marjoe
1973.
The Great American Cowboy
1974.
Hearts and Minds
1975.
The Man Who Skied Down Everest
1976.
Harlan County, USA
1977.
Who Are the DeBolts? And Where Did They Get Nineteen Kids?
1978.
Scared Straight!
1979.
Best Boy
1980.
From Mao to Mozart: Isaac Stern in China
1981.
Genocide
1982.
Just Another Missing Kid
1983.
He Makes Me Feel Like Dancin’
1984.
The Times of Harvey Milk
1985.
Broken Rainbow
1986. – Podjela nagrade:
Artie Shaw: Time Is All You’ve Got and Down and Out in America
1987.
The Ten-Year Lunch
1988.
Hôtel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie
1989.
Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt
1990.
American Dream
1991.
In the Shadow of the Stars
1992.
The Panama Deception
1993.
I Am a Promise: The Children of Stanton Elementary School
1994.
Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision
1995.
Anne Frank Remembered
1996.
When We Were Kings
1997.
The Long Way Home
1998.
The Last Days
1999.
One Day in September
2000.
Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport
2001.
Murder on a Sunday Morning (Un coupable idéal)
2002.
Bowling for Columbine
2003.
The Fog of War
2004.
Born into Brothels
2005.
March of the Penguins (La marche de l’empereur)
2006.
An Inconvenient Truth
2007.
Taxi to the Dark Side
2008.
Man on Wire
2009.
The Cove
2010.
Inside Job
2011.
Undefeated
2012.
Searching for Sugar Man
