British Academy Film Award / Best Documentary
The list brings together winners and nominees for the British Academy Film Award in the category of Best Documentary . The award was known as the Robert Flaherty Award from 1960 to 1990 . From 1984 to 1990 the award for television productions took place.
Oscar- winning films have received four awards, most recently in 1972 The Hellstrom Chronicle . If there is an asterisk behind the film title, the film has been awarded an Oscar.
The films listed are given with their German distribution title (if this can be determined), followed by the original title in the respective national language in brackets in italics and the directors and producers nominated separately. The original title is not mentioned if no German distribution title is known or the German and original film titles are identical. The winners are highlighted first.
1940s
1949
Louisiana Legend (Louisiana Story)
- Farrebique ou Les quatre seasons
- Is Everybody Listening?
- Shadow of the Ruhr
- Those Blasted Kids
- Three Dawns To Sydney
1950s
1950
- Circulation
- The Cornish Engine
- Drug addict
- Isole nella laguna
- The Liver Fluke in Great Britain
- Report on the Refugee Problem
1951
- Inland waterways
- Kon-Tiki
- La montagne est verte
- The Robben Island (Seal Iceland)
- The Vatican
- La vie commence demain
1952
In Beaver Valley
1953
- Fishermen of Negombo
- Highlights of Farnborough 1952
- Journey Into History
- Le Mans 1952
- Earth, the great unknown (Nature's Half Acre)
- Ocean Terminal
- The Open Window
- Opera School
- Rig 20
- The Streamlined Pig
1954
The conquest of Everest (The Conquest of Everest)
- Crin blanc: Le cheval sauvage
- Images Mediaevales
- Kumak, The Sleepy Hunter
- In the realm of the white bears (Во льдах океана)
- Mille Miglia 1953
- Operation Hurricane
- Teeth of the Wind
- Waterfowl (Water Birds)
- World Without End
1955
The great adventure (Det stora aventyret)
1956
The Vanishing Prairie (The Vanishing Prairie) *
1957
- Foothold on Antarctica
- Generator 4
- The silent world (Le monde du silence)
- Under the same sky
1958
1959
Glass *
1960s
1960
The Savage Eye - Directed by Joseph Strick , Sidney Meyers , Ben Maddow
- This Is the BBC - Director: Richard Cawston
- We Are the Lambeth Boys - Director: Karel Reisz
- White Wilderness (White Wilderness) - Director: James Algar
1961
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1962
1963
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1964
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1965
1966
Tokyo 1964 (Tôkyô orinpikku) - Director: Kon Ichikawa
- Brute Force and Finesse - Director: Max Morgan Witts
- Deckie Learner - Director: Michael Grigsby
- Stravinsky - directed by Roman Kroitor , Wolf Koenig
1967
Football World Cup 1966 (Goal! The World Cup) - Director: Abidin Dino , Ross Devenish
- Buster Keaton Rides Again - Director: John Spotton
- I'm Going to Ask You to Get Up Out of Your Seat - Director: Richard Cawston
- Matador - Director: Kevin Billington
1968
Die für Madrid (Mourir à Madrid) - Director: Frédéric Rossif
- Famine - Director: Jack Gold
- The Things I Cannot Change - Director: Tanya Ballantyne
1969
In Need of Special Care: Camphill Rudolph Steiner School, Aberdeen - Director: Jonathan Stedall
- Inside North Viet Nam - Director: Felix Greene
- NBC Experiment in Television - Director: Michael Tuchner
- Music! (Episode 4.1)
- A Plague on Your Children - Director: Adrian Malone
1970s
1970
Prologue - Director: National Film Board of Canada ( Robyn Spry )
1971
Sad Song of Yellow Skin - Director: National Film Board of Canada ( Michael Rubbo )
1972
The Hellstrom Chronicle (The Hellstrom Chronicle) * - Directed by: Walon Green
- Death of a Legend - Directed by Bill Mason
1973
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1974
Grierson - Director: National Film Board of Canada ( Roger Blais )
1975
Cree Hunters of Mistassini - Directed by Tony Ianzelo , Boyce Richardson
- Compañero: Victor Jara of Chile - Directed by Stanley Forman , Martin Smith
- Leprosy - Director: Andrzej Trzos-Rastawiecki
1976
In Search of the Early Americans - Directed by Alan Pendry
- Seven Green Bottles - Director: Eric Marquis
1977
Los Canadienses - Director: Albert Kish
- White Rock - Director: Tony Maylam
1978
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1979
The Silent Witness - Director: David W. Rolfe
1980s
1980
The wooden shoe tree (L'albero degli zoccoli) - Director: Ermanno Olmi
1981
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1982
Soldier Girls - Directed by Nick Broomfield , Joan Churchill
- Best Boy : Ira Wohl
- The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter - Directed by Connie Field
- Return Journey - Directed by Ian Potts
1983
The Burden of Dreams - Director: Les Blank
- The Atomic Cafe - Directed by Kevin Rafferty , Jayne Loader , Pierce Rafferty
- Not a Love Story: A Film About Pornography - Director: Bonnie Sherr Klein
- The Weavers: Wasn't That a Time - Directed by Jim Brown
1984
Schindler: The Documentary - Directed by Jon Blair
- Forty Minutes , episode: Female Circumcision - Director: Louise Panton
- Wildlife on One , Episode: Night Life - Director: Dilys Breese
- The Boy David , Episode 3: The Visit - Director: Alex McCall
1985
28 Up - Directed by Michael Apted
- The South Bank Show , episode: Alan Bennett - Director: David Hinton
1986
Omnibus , episode: Leonard Bernstein's West Side Story - director: Christopher Swann
- The South Bank Show , episode: David Lean: A Life in Film - Director: Nigel Wattis
- Marilyn Monroe's Last Days (Say Goodbye to the President) - Director: Christopher Olgiati
1987
Shoah - Director: Claude Lanzmann
1988
Baka - People of the Rainforest - Director: Phil Agland
- Forty Minutes , episode: Home from the Hill - Director: Molly Dineen
- Fourteen Days in May - Director: Paul Hamann
1989
This Week , episode: Death on the Rock - Director: Osbert Parker
- Great Performances , episode: Richard Burton: In from the Cold - Director: Tony Palmer
- The Men Who Killed Kennedy - Director: Nigel Turner
1990s
1990
Four Hours in My Lai - Kevin Sim
- Cambodia - Year 10: A Special Report by John Pilger (Viewpoint '89) - Director: David Munro
- Lost Children of the Empire - Directed by Joanna Mack , Mike Fox
- Romania - State of Fear (Everyman) - Director: John Blake
2010s
Senna - Director: Asif Kapadia
- George Harrison: Living in the Material World - Director: Martin Scorsese
- Project Nim - Directed by James Marsh , Simon Chinn
Searching for Sugar Man - Directed by Malik Bendjelloul , Simon Chinn
- Der Blender - The Imposter (The Imposter) - Director: Bart Layton , Dimitri Doganis
- Marley - Directed by Kevin Macdonald , Steve Bing , Charles Steel
- McCullin - Directed by David Morris , Jacqui Morris
- West of Memphis - Director: Amy Berg
The Act of Killing - Director: Joshua Oppenheimer
- The Armstrong Lie - Director: Alex Gibney
- Tim's Vermeer - Director: Penn & Teller , Farley Ziegler
- We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks (We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks) - Director: Alex Gibney
- Blackfish - Director: Gabriela Cowperthwaite
Citizenfour - Director: Laura Poitras
- Finding Vivian Maier - Director: John Maloof , Charlie Siskel
- 20 Feet from Stardom - Director: Morgan Neville
- 20,000 Days on Earth - Directed by Iain Forsyth , Jane Pollard
- Virunga - Director: Orlando von Einsiedel
Amy - Directed by Asif Kapadia , James Gay-Rees
- Listen to Me Marlon - Directed by Stevan Riley , John Battsek , George Chignell , RJ Cutler
- He Named Me - Directed by Malala Davis Guggenheim , Walter Parkes , Laurie Macdonald
- Sherpa - Trouble on Everest - Director: Jennifer Peedom , Bridget Ikin , John Smithson
- Cartel Land - Director: Matthew Heineman , Tom Yellin
13th - Director: Ava DuVernay
- The Beatles: Eight Days A Week - The Touring Years - Director: Ron Howard
- The Eagle Huntress - Director: Otto Bell
- Seeing in the Dark - Notes on Blindness - Directed by Peter Middleton , James Spinney
- Weiner - Directed by Josh Kriegman , Elyse Steinberg
I Am Not Your Negro - Director: Raoul Peck
- City of Ghosts - Director: Matthew Heineman
- Icarus - Directed by Dan Cogan , Bryan Fogel
- Still an Inconvenient Truth - Our time is running out (An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power) - Directed by Bonni Cohen , Jon Shenk
- Jane - Directed by Brett Morgen
Free Solo - Directed by Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi , Jimmy Chin
- Alexander McQueen - The Movie - Director: Ian Bonhôte , Peter Ettedgui
- RBG - A Life for Justice (RBG) - Director: Julie Cohen , Betsy West
- They Shall Not Grow Old - Director: Peter Jackson
- Three Identical Strangers - Director: Tim Wardle
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ British Academy Film Awards , BAFTA.org. Retrieved March 13, 2012.