| Year
|
Film
|
Director(s)
|
2010 [18] |
Restrepo |
Sebastian Junger, Tim Hetherington
|
| Behind the Burly Q |
Leslie Zemeckis
|
| Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer |
Alex Gibney
|
| Countdown to Zero |
Lucy Walker
|
| A Film Unfinished |
Yael Hersonski
|
| Inside Job |
Charles Ferguson
|
| Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work |
Ricki Stern, Anne Sundberg
|
| Sequestro |
Jorge Wolney Atalla Junior
|
| The Tillman Story |
Amir Bar-Lev
|
| Waiting for "Superman" |
Davis Guggenheim
|
2011 [19][20] |
Senna |
Asif Kapadia
|
| American: The Bill Hicks Story |
Matt Harlock, Paul Thomas
|
| Cave of Forgotten Dreams |
Werner Herzog
|
| The Interrupters |
Steve James
|
| My Perestroika |
Robin Hessman
|
| One Lucky Elephant |
Lisa Leeman
|
| Pina |
Wim Wenders
|
| Project Nim |
James Marsh
|
| Tabloid |
Errol Morris
|
| Under Fire: Journalists in Combat |
Martyn Burke
|
2012 [21][22] |
Chasing Ice |
Jeff Orlowski
|
| Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry |
Alison Klayman
|
| The Central Park Five |
Ken Burns, Sarah Burns, David McMahon
|
| The Gatekeepers |
Dror Moreh
|
| Marina Abramović: The Artist is Present |
Matthew Akers
|
| The Pruitt-Igoe Myth |
Chad Freidrichs
|
| Searching for Sugar Man |
Malik Bendjelloul
|
| West of Memphis |
Amy J. Berg
|
2013 [23][24] |
Blackfish |
Gabriela Cowperthwaite
|
| 20 Feet from Stardom |
Morgan Neville
|
| The Act of Killing |
Joshua Oppenheimer
|
| After Tiller |
Martha Shane, Lana Wilson
|
| American Promise |
Joe Brewster, Michèle Stephenson
|
| Évocateur: The Morton Downey Jr. Movie |
Seth Kramer, Daniel A. Miller, Jeremy Newberger
|
| Sound City |
Dave Grohl
|
| The Square |
Jehane Noujaim
|
| Stories We Tell |
Sarah Polley
|
| Tim's Vermeer |
Teller
|
2014 [25][26] |
Citizenfour |
Laura Poitras
|
| Afternoon of a Faun: Tanaquil Le Clercq |
Nancy Buirski
|
| Art and Craft |
Sam Cullman, Jennifer Grausman
|
| Finding Vivian Maier |
John Maloof, Charlie Siskel
|
| Glen Campbell: I'll Be Me |
James Keach
|
| Jodorowsky's Dune |
Frank Pavich
|
| Keep on Keepin' On |
Alan Hicks
|
| Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles |
Chuck Workman
|
| Red Army |
Gabe Polsky
|
| Virunga |
Orlando von Einsiedel
|
2015 [27] |
Amy |
Asif Kapadia
|
| The Look of Silence |
Joshua Oppenheimer
|
| Becoming Bulletproof |
Michael Barnett
|
| Best of Enemies |
Robert Gordon, Morgan Neville
|
| Cartel Land |
Matthew Heineman
|
| Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief |
Alex Gibney
|
| He Named Me Malala |
Davis Guggenheim
|
| The Hunting Ground |
Kirby Dick
|
| National Lampoon: Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead |
Douglas Tirola
|
| Where to Invade Next |
Michael Moore
|
2016 [28] |
13th |
Ava DuVernay
|
| The Beatles: Eight Days a Week |
Ron Howard
|
| The Eagle Huntress |
Otto Bell
|
| Fire at Sea |
Gianfranco Rosi
|
| Gleason |
Clay Tweel
|
| The Ivory Game |
Richard Ladkani, Kief Davidson
|
| Life, Animated |
Roger Ross Williams
|
| O.J.: Made in America |
Ezra Edelman
|
| Tower |
Keith Maitland
|
| Zero Days |
Alex Gibney
|
2017 [29][30] |
Chasing Coral |
Jeff Orlowski
|
| City of Ghosts |
Matthew Heineman
|
| Cries from Syria |
Evgeny Afineevsky
|
| Ex Libris: The New York Public Library |
Frederick Wiseman
|
| Hell on Earth: The Fall of Syria and the Rise of ISIS |
Sebastian Junger, Nick Quested
|
| Human Flow |
Ai Weiwei
|
| Icarus |
Bryan Fogel
|
| Kedi |
Ceyda Torun
|
| Legion of Brothers |
Greg Barker
|
2018 [31] |
Minding the Gap |
Bing Liu
|
| Crime + Punishment |
Stephen Maing
|
| Free Solo |
Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin
|
| RBG |
Betsy West, Julie Cohen
|
| Three Identical Strangers |
Tim Wardle
|
| Won't You Be My Neighbor? |
Morgan Neville
|
2019 [32] |
63 Up |
Michael Apted
|
| The Apollo |
Roger Ross Williams
|
| Apollo 11 |
Todd Douglas Miller
|
| The Cave |
Feras Fayyad
|
| Citizen K |
Alex Gibney
|
| For Sama |
Waad Al-Kateab, Edward Watts
|
| Honeyland |
Tamara Kotevska, Ljubomir Stefanov
|
| One Child Nation |
Nanfu Wang, Jialing Zhang
|