Academy Award Winners for Best Documentary
| 2009 | The Cove. PG-13. DVD 599.53 C | |
| 2008 | Man on Wire. PG-13. DVD 791.34092 | |
| 2007 | Taxi to the Dark Side. R. DVD 363.32 T | |
| 2006 | An Inconvenient Truth. PG. DVD 363.73874 I | |
| 2005 | March of the Penguins. G. DVD 598.47 M | |
| 2004 | Born Into Brothels. R. DVD 954.05 B | |
| 2003 | The Fog of War. PG-13. DVD 973.92 F | |
| 2002 | Bowling for Columbine. R. DVD 363.330973 B and VHS 363.330973 B |
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| 2001 | Murder on a Sunday Morning. Not rated. DVD 364.1523 M |
| 2000 | Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of
the Kindertransport. PG. DVD 940.53161 I and VHS 940.53161 I |
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| 1999 | One Day in September. R. DVD 364.152 O and VHS 364.152 O | |
| 1998 | The Last Days. PG-13. DVD 940.5318 L and VHS 940.5318 L | |
| 1997 | The Long Way Home. Not rated. DVD 940.5318 L | |
| 1996 | When We Were Kings. PG. DVD 796.83 W | |
| 1995 | Anne Frank Remembered. PG. DVD B F828an and VHS B F828an | |
| 1994 | Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision. Not rated. DVD B L7352ma | |
| 1993 | I Am a Promise: The Children of Stanton
Elementary School. Not rated. DVD 371.0091732 I |
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| 1992 | The Panama Deception. Not rated. VHS 327.7307287 P | |
| 1991 | In the Shadow of the Stars. Not rated. DVD 782.1092 I | |
| 1990 | American Dream. PG-13. DVD 331.892 A | |
| 1989 | Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt. Not rated. DVD 362.1969792 C | |
| 1988 | Hotel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie. Not rated. VHS 940.5405 H | |
| 1987 | The Ten-Year Lunch: The Wit and Legend of the Algonquin Round Table. Not rated. | |
| 1986 | Artie Shaw: Time is All You've Got. Not rated.
Down and Out in America. Not rated. |
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| 1985 | Broken Rainbow. Not rated. DVD 970.3 N317br | |
| 1984 | The Times of Harvey Milk. Not rated. DVD 305.90664 T | |
| 1983 | He Makes Me Feel Like Dancin'. Not rated. | |
| 1982 | Just Another Missing Kid. Not rated. | |
| 1981 | Genocide. Not rated. DVD 940.5318 G | |
| 1980 | From Mao to Mozart: Isaac Stern in China. G. DVD 780 F | |
| 1979 | Best Boy. Not rated. DVD 362.3 B | |
| 1978 | Scared Straight!. Not rated. DVD 364.4 S | |
| 1977 | Who are the DeBolts? And Where Did
They Get Nineteen Kids? Not rated. DVD 362.4083 W. |
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| 1976 | Harlan County U.S.A. PG. DVD 331.892 H | |
| 1975 | The Man Who Skied Down Everest. G. DVD 796.93 M | |
| 1974 | Hearts and Minds. R. DVD 959.7043 H | |
| 1973 | The Great American Cowboy. G. | |
| 1972 | Marjoe. PG. DVD 269.2092 M | |
| 1971 | The Hellstrom Chronicle. G. | |
| 1970 | Woodstock. R. DVD 780.78 WOO | |
| 1969 | Arthur Rubenstein - The Love of Life. Not rated. | |
| 1968 | Journey Into Self. Not rated. | |
| 1967 | The Anderson Platoon. Not rated. VHS 759.7043 A | |
| 1966 | The War Game. Not rated. DVD 355.0217 W | |
| 1965 | The Eleanor Roosevelt Story. Not rated. DVD B R78133eL | |
| 1964 | Jacques-Yves Cousteau's World without Sun. Not rated. | |
| 1963 | Robert Frost: A Lover's Quarrel with the World. Not rated. | |
| 1962 | Black Fox: The Rise and Fall of Adolf Hitler . Not rated. DVD 943.086 B | |
| 1961 | Le Ciel et la Boue (Sky Above and Mud Beneath). Not rated. | |
| 1960 | The Horse with the Flying Tail. Not rated. | |
| 1959 | Serengeti Shall Not Die. Not rated. | |
| 1958 | White Wilderness. Not rated. | |
| 1957 | Albert Schweitzer. Not rated. | |
| 1956 | The Silent World. Not rated. | |
| 1955 | Helen Keller in Her Story. G. | |
| 1954 | The Vanishing Prairie. G. | |
| 1953 | The Living Desert. Not rated. VHS 577.54 L | |
| 1952 | The Sea Around Us. Not rated. | |
| 1951 | Kon-Tiki. Not rated. DVD 910.4 K | |
| 1950 | The Titan: Story of Michelangelo. Not rated. | |
| 1949 | Daybreak in Udi. Not rated. | |
| 1948 | The Secret Land. Not rated. | |
| 1947 | Design for Death. Not rated. | |
| 1945 | The True Glory. Not rated. | |
| 1944 | The Fighting Lady. Not rated. DVD 940.5426 F | |
| 1943 | Desert Victory. Not rated. VHS 940.5423 D |