National Board of Review Award / Best Documentary
The winners of the National Board of Review Award for Best Documentary. Between 1944 and 1987 the prize was not awarded.
The years on the list indicate the film years evaluated, the awards ceremony took place in the following year.
- 2019: Maiden by Alex Holmes
- 2018: RBG - A Life for Justice by Betsy West and Julie Cohen
- 2017: Jane from Brett Morgen
- 2016: OJ Simpson: Made in America by Ezra Edelman
- 2015: Amy from Asif Kapadia
- 2014: Life Itself by Steve James
- 2013: Stories We Tell by Sarah Polley
- 2012: Searching for Sugar Man by Malik Bendjelloul
- 2011: Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory by Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky
- 2010: Waiting for “Superman” by Davis Guggenheim
- 2009: The Bay of Louie Psihoyos
- 2008: Man on Wire by James Marsh
- 2007: Body of War by Ellen Spiro and Phil Donahue
- 2006: An Inconvenient Truth by Davis Guggenheim
- 2005: The Journey of the Penguins by Luc Jacquet
- 2004: Born in a brothel - children in the red light district of Calcutta by Zana Briski
- 2003: The Fog of War by Errol Morris
- 2002: Bowling for Columbine by Michael Moore
- 2001: The Endurance by George Butler
- 2000: The Life and Times by Hank Greenberg
- 1999: Buena Vista Social Club by Wim Wenders
- 1998: Wild Man Blues by Barbara Kopple
- 1997: Fast, Cheap, & Out of Control by Errol Morris
- 1996: Paradise Lost by Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky
- 1995: Crumb by Terry Zwigoff
- 1994: Hoop Dreams by Steve James
- 1993: The War Room by Chris Hegedus and DA Pennebaker
- 1992: Brother's Keeper by Joe Berlinger
- 1989: Roger & Me by Michael Moore
- 1988: The Thin Blue Line by Errol Morris
- 1987: Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll by Taylor Hackford
- 1944:
- 1943:
- Desert Victory by Roy Boulting and David MacDonald
- The Battle of Russia by Frank Capra and Anatole Litvak
- Prelude to the war by Frank Capra and Anatole Litvak
- Three Caballeros in Samba Fever by Norm Ferguson , Wilfred Jackson , Jack Kinney , Hamilton Luske , Bill Roberts
- The Silent Village by Humphrey Jennings
- 1942:
- Moscow Strikes Back by Ilya Kopalin and Leonid Varlamow
- Native Land by Leo Hurwitz and Paul Strand
- Word in Action by?
- 1941:
- Target for Tonight by Harry Watt
- The Forgotten Village by Herbert Kline (director) and Alexander Hammid (assistant director)
- Ku Kan from?
- The Land by Robert J. Flaherty
- 1940: The Fight for Life by Pare Lorentz
Web links
- National Board of Review Awards website
Individual evidence
- ↑ Best Documentary Archives - National Board of Review. In: National Board of Review. Retrieved December 31, 2016 (American English).