| Year | Director | Documentary | % Correct |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | Michael Moore | Bowling for Columbine | 79%
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| 2003 | Errol Morris | The Fog of War | 57%
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| 2008 | James Marsh | Man on Wire | 50%
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| 2013 | Morgan Neville | 20 Feet From Stardom | 43%
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| 1946 | No Award Given. | a | 43%
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| 1976 | Barbara Kopple | Harlan County, USA | 43%
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| 1951 | Thor Heyerdahl | Kon-Tiki | 43%
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| 2015 | Asif Kapadia | Amy | 36%
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| 2006 | Davis Guggenheim | An Inconvenient Truth | 36%
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| 2004 | Zana Briski and Ross Kauffman | Born into Brothels | 36%
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| 2016 | Ezra Edelman | O.J.: Made in America | 36%
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| 2012 | Malik Bendjelloul | Searching for Sugar Man | 36%
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| 2007 | Alex Gibney | Taxi to the Dark Side | 36%
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| 1956 | Jacques Cousteau and Louis Malle | The Silent World | 36%
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| 1990 | Barbara Kopple | American Dream | 29%
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| 1986 | Brigitte Berman | Artie Shaw: Time Is All You've Got | 29%
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| 1979 | Ira Wohl | Best Boy | 29%
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| 1947 | Richard Fleischer | Design for Death | 29%
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| Lee Grant | Down and Out in America | 29%
| |
| 1981 | Arnold Schwartzman | Genocide | 29%
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| 1983 | Emile Ardolino | He Makes Me Feel Like Dancin' | 29%
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| 1988 | Marcel Ophuls | Hotel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie | 29%
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| 2005 | Luc Jacquet | March of the Penguins | 29%
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| 2001 | Jean-Xavier de Lestrade | Murder on a Sunday Morning | 29%
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| 1999 | Kevin Macdonald | One Day in September | 29%
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| 1978 | Arnold Shapiro | Scared Straight! | 29%
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| 1967 | Pierre Schoendoerffer | The Anderson Platoon | 29%
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| 1973 | Kieth Merrill | The Great American Cowboy | 29%
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| 1998 | James Moll | The Last Days | 29%
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| 1953 | James Algar | The Living Desert | 29%
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| 1987 | Aviva Slesin | The Ten-Year Lunch | 29%
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| 1984 | Rod Epstein | The Times of Harvey Milk | 29%
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| 1977 | John Korty | Who Are the DeBolts? And Where Did They Get Nineteen Kids? | 29%
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| 1964 | Jacques Cousteau | World Without Sun | 29%
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| 1957 | Jerome Hill | Albert Schweitzer | 21%
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| 1962 | Louis Clyde Stoumen | Black Fox: The Rise and Fall of Adolf Hitler | 21%
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| 1985 | Victoria Mudd | Broken Rainbow | 21%
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| 1974 | Peter Davis | Hearts and Minds | 21%
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| 1993 | Susan Raymond | I Am a Promise: The Children of Stanton Elementary School | 21%
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| 2000 | Mark Jonathan Harris | Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport | 21%
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| 1972 | Sarah Kernochan and Howard Smith | Marjoe | 21%
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| Frank Capra | Prelude to War | 21%
| |
| 1942 | John Ford | The Battle of Midway | 21%
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| 2009 | Louie Psihoyos | The Cove | 21%
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| 1971 | Ed Spiegel and Walon Green | The Hellstrom Chronicle | 21%
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| 1992 | Barbara Trent | The Panama Deception | 21%
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| 1952 | Irwin Allen | The Sea Around Us | 21%
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| 1970 | Michael Wadleigh | Woodstock | 21%
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| 1995 | Jon Blair | Anne Frank Remembered | 14%
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| 2014 | Laura Poitras | Citizenfour | 14%
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| 1989 | Rod Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman | Common Threads: Stories From the Quilt | 14%
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| 1943 | Ray Boulting | Desert Victory | 14%
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| 1982 | John Zaritsky | Just Another Missing Kid | 14%
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| 1963 | Shirley Clarke | Robert Frost: A Lover's Quarrel with the World | 14%
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| 1959 | Bernhard Grzimek | Serengeti Shall Not Die | 14%
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| 1965 | Richard Kaplan | The Eleanor Roosevelt Story | 14%
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| 1944 | Edward Steichen | The Fighting Lady | 14%
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| 2011 | Daniel Lindsay and T.J. Martin | Undefeated | 14%
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| 1958 | James Algar | White Wilderness | 14%
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| 1969 | Gérard Patris and Francois Reichenbach | Arthur Rubinstein - The Love of Life | 7%
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| 1949 | Terry Bishop | Daybreak in Udi | 7%
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| 1955 | Nancy Hamilton | Helen Keller in Her Story | 7%
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| 2010 | Charles Ferguson | Inside Job | 7%
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| 1991 | Allie Light and Irving Saraf | In the Shadow of the Stars | 7%
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| Leonid Varlamov and Ilya Kopalin | Moscow Strikes Back | 7%
| |
| 1961 | Pierre-Dominique Gaisseau | Sky Above and Mud Beneath | 7%
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| 1960 | Larry Lansburgh | The Horse with the Flying Tail | 7%
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| 1997 | Mark Jonathan Harris | The Long Way Home | 7%
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| 1980 | Murray Lerner | From Mao to Mozart: Isaac Stern in China | 0%
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| 1968 | Tom Skinner | Journey into Self | 0%
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| Ken G. Hall | Kokoda Front Line! | 0%
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| 1994 | Freida Lee Mock | Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision | 0%
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| 1975 | Bruce Nyznik and Lawrence Schiller | The Man Who Skied Down Everest | 0%
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| 1948 | Orville O. Dull | The Secret Land | 0%
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| 1950 | Robert J. Flaherty, Richard Lyford, and Curt Oertel | The Titan: Story of Michelangelo | 0%
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| 1945 | Garson Kanin | The True Glory | 0%
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| 1954 | James Algar | The Vanishing Prairie | 0%
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| 1966 | Peter Watkins | The War Game | 0%
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| 1996 | Leon Gast | When We Were Kings | 0%
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