Academy Award untuk Film Dokumenter Terbaik

The Academy Award for Documentary Feature (Dokumenter Terbaik Oscar) adalah salah satu penghargaan bergengsi bagi film-film dokumenter.

1942-1999

1942 -
- Battle of Midway
- Kokoda Front Line
- Moscow Strikes Back
- Prelude To War
1943 - Desert Victory
1944 - The Fighting Lady
1945 - The True Glory
1946 - tidak diadakan
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
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 - Jacques-Yves Cousteau's 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 -
- Artie Shaw: Time Is All You've Got
- Down and Out in America
1987 - The Ten-Year Lunch: The Wit and Legend of the Algonquin Round Table
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-an

2000 - Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport
2001 - Murder on a Sunday Morning
2002 - Bowling for Columbine
- Daughter From Danang
- Prisoner of Paradise
- Spellbound
- Winged Migration
2003 - The Fog of War
- Balseros
- Capturing the Friedmans
- My Architect
- The Weather Underground
2004 - Born into Brothels
- The Story of the Weeping Camel
- Super Size Me
- Tupac: Resurrection
- Twist of Faith
2005 - March of the Penguins
- Darwin's Nightmare
- Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
- Murderball
- Street Fight