German Film Award / Best Documentary
Since 2000, the German Film Prize in the category Best Documentary (formerly: Best Full-Program Documentary ) has been awarded to outstanding German documentary films . Before that, documentaries, as well as feature films, were awarded a film volume in gold or silver.
A gold film prize (endowment: 200,000 euros ) is currently being awarded for the best documentary film . The other nominated films will receive prize money of 100,000 euros. In 2012 the number of nominations was increased from two to three.
2000s
2000
Buena Vista Social Club - Director: Wim Wenders
- Heimspiel - Director: Pepe Danquart
2001
Havanna, mi amor - Director: Uli Gaulke
- Milk and honey from Rotfront - Director: Hans-Erich Viet
2002
Black Box BRD - Director: Andres Veiel
- A Woman and a Half: Hildegard Knef - Director: Clarissa Ruge
2003
Rivers and Tides - Andy Goldsworthy Working With Time - Director: Thomas Riedelsheimer
- Soldiers' happiness and God's blessing - directed by Ulrike Franke and Michael Loeken
2004
The children are dead - Director: Aelrun Goette
- The story of the weeping camel - directed by Byambasuren Davaa and Luigi Falorni
Rhythm Is It! - Direction: Thomas Grube and Enrique Sánchez Lansch
- Touch the Sound - Director: Thomas Riedelsheimer
Lost Children - directed by Ali Samadi Ahadi and Oliver Stoltz
- The great silence - Director: Philip Gröning
Workingman's Death - Director: Michael Glawogger
Prinzessinnenbad - Director: Bettina Blümner
- At the limit - directed by Pepe Danquart
NoBody's Perfect - Production: Niko von Glasow
- Lenin only got as far as Lüdenscheid - Production: Marianne Schäfer
2010s
The heart of Jenin - Production: Ernst Ludwig Ganzert , Ulli Pfau
- The woman with the 5 elephants - Production: Thomas Tielsch
Pina - Production: Wim Wenders , Gian-Piero Ringel
- Kinshasa Symphony - Production: Stefan Pannen , Holger Preuße
Gerhard Richter Painting - Production: Thomas Kufus , Director: Corinna Belz
- Charlotte Rampling - The Look - Production: Gerd Haag , Michael Trabitzsch and Charlotte Uzu , Director: Angelina Maccarone
- The Big Eden - Production: Benny Drechsel and Karsten Stöter , Director: Peter Dörfler
More than Honey - Production: Thomas Kufus , Helmut Grasser and Pierre-Alain Meier , Director: Markus Imhoof
- Forget mine not - production: Martin Heisler and Carl-Ludwig Rettinger , director: David Sieveking
- The Apartment - Production: Thomas Kufus and Arnon Goldfinger , Direction: Arnon Goldfinger
Beltracchi - The Art of Forgery - Production: Arne Birkenstock , Helmut G. Weber and Thomas Springer , Direction: Arne Birkenstock
- Alphabet - Production: Mathias Forberg , Peter Rommel and Viktoria Salcher , Direction: Erwin Wagenhofer
- Master of the Universe - Production: Marc Bauder , Markus Glaser and Wolfgang Widerhofer , Director: Marc Bauder
Citizenfour - Production: Dirk Wilutzky , Laura Poitras and Mathilde Bonnefoy , Director: Laura Poitras
- Beyond Punishment - Production and Direction: Hubertus Siegert
- Nowitzki. The perfect throw - production: Leopold Hoesch , director: Sebastian Dehnhardt
Above and Below - Nicolas Steiner
Cahier Africain - Production: Peter Spoerri and Stefan Tolz , Direction: Heidi Specogna
- Berlin Rebel High School - production: Alexander dresses and Daniela Michel , director: Alexander dresses
- No Land's Song - Production: Gunter Hanfgarn , Rouven Rech and Teresa Renn , Direction: Ayat Najafi
Beuys - Production: Thomas Kufus
- The Congo Tribunal - Production: Arne Birkenstock , Oliver Zobrist
- Taste of Cement - The taste of cement - Production: Ansgar Frerich , Eva Kemme , Tobias N. Siebert
Of Fathers and Sons - Production: Ansgar Frerich , Eva Kemme , Tobias N. Siebert , Hans Robert Eisenhauer
- Parents School - Production: Ingo Fliess
- Hi, AI production: Stefan Kloos
2020s
Born in Evin - Production: Alex Tondowski , Ira Tondowski
- Home is a space from time - production: Heino Deckert
- Schlingensief - Shouting Into the Silence - Production: Frieder Schlaich , Irene von Alberti