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
|