Submissions for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature
These are the lists of documentary films that were shortlisted for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in recent years.
List of selected films and years
1999
| Film | Director(s) | Countrie(s) | Subject(s) | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amargosa | Not nominated | [1] | |||
| American Movie | Chris Smith |  |
The making of a low budget horror movie | Not nominated | |
| Beyond the Mat | Not nominated | ||||
| Buena Vista Social Club | Wim Wenders | A group of elderly Cuban musicians | Nominated | ||
| Genghis Blues | Nominated | ||||
| Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr. | Errol Morris | Not nominated | |||
| On the Ropes | Brett Morgen | |
Nominated | ||
| One Day in September | Terrorist attacks at the 1972 Summer Olympics | Won Academy Award | |||
| Pop & Me | Not nominated | ||||
| Smoke and Mirrors: A History of Denial | Not nominated | ||||
| The Source | Chuck Workman | |
The Beat Generation | Not nominated | |
| Speaking in Strings | Nominated |
2000
2001
2002
2003
| Film | Director(s) | Countrie(s) | Subject(s) | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Agronomist | Not nominated | [2] | |||
| Balseros | Nominated | ||||
| Bus 174 | Not nominated | ||||
| Capturing the Friedmans | American family with dark sexual secrets | Nominated | |||
| Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin | Not nominated | ||||
| The Fog of War | Errol Morris | |
Robert McNamara and his involvement in the Vietnam War | Won Academy Award | |
| Heir to an Execution | Not nominated | ||||
| Inheritance: A Fisherman's Story | Not nominated | ||||
| Lost Boys of Sudan | Not nominated | ||||
| My Architect | Nominated | ||||
| My Flesh and Blood | Not nominated | ||||
| The Weather Underground | |
The rise and fall of radical political group of the same name | Nominated |
2004
| Film | Director(s) | Countrie(s) | Subject(s) | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Born into Brothels | Won Academy Award | [3][2] | |||
| Home of the Brave | Not nominated | ||||
| Howard Zinn: You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train | Not nominated | ||||
| In the Realms of the Unreal | Jessica Yu | |
Outsider artist Henry Darger's magnum opus The Story of the Vivian Girls, in What is known as the Realms of the Unreal, of the Glandeco-Angelinian War Storm, Caused by the Child Slave Rebellion | Not nominated | |
| Riding Giants | Not nominated | ||||
| The Ritchie Boys | Not nominated | ||||
| The Story of the Weeping Camel | Nominated | ||||
| Super Size Me | Morgan Spurlock | |
A filmmaker eating nothing but McDonald's fast food for 30 days | Nominated | |
| Tell Them Who You Are | Not nominated | ||||
| Touching the Void | Not nominated | ||||
| Tupac: Resurrection | Late rapper Tupac Shakur | Nominated | |||
| Twist of Faith | Nominated |
2005
| Film | Director(s) | Countrie(s) | Subject(s) | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Darwin's Nightmare | Nominated | [4] | |||
| The Devil and Daniel Johnston | |
Outsider music artist Daniel Johnston and his struggles with paranoid schizophrenia | Not nominated | ||
| Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room | Alex Gibney | |
The rise and fall of the real estate corporation Enron | Nominated | |
| Mad Hot Ballroom | |
Not nominated | |||
| March of the Penguins |  |
The daily lives of emperor penguins | Won Academy Award | ||
| Murderball | |
American Wheelchair rugby players facing against Canadian wheelchair rugby players at the 2004 Paralympic Games | Nominated | ||
| Street Fight | Marshall Curry | |
Nominated |
2006
2007
| Film | Director(s) | Countrie(s) | Subject(s) | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Autism: The Musical | Children on the autism spectrum performing their own stage musical | Not nominated | [5] | ||
| Body of War | Not nominated | ||||
| For the Bible Tells Me So | Not nominated | ||||
| Lake of Fire | Not nominated | ||||
| Nanking | Not nominated | ||||
| No End in Sight | Nominated | ||||
| Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience | Nominated | ||||
| The Price of Sugar | Not nominated | ||||
| Please Vote for Me | Not nominated | ||||
| Sicko | Michael Moore | |
Nominated | ||
| Taxi to the Dark Side | Alex Gibney | |
Won Academy Award | ||
| War/Dance | Nominated | ||||
| White Light/Black Rain | Not nominated |
2008
| Film | Director(s) | Countrie(s) | Subject(s) | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Betrayal (Nerakhoon) | [6] | ||||
| Encounters at the End of the World | |||||
| The Garden | |||||
| Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts | Classical music composer Philip Glass | ||||
| I.O.U.S.A. | |||||
| Man on Wire | |
Won Academy Award | |||
| Trouble the Water |
2009
2010
| Film | Director(s) | Countrie(s) | Subject(s) | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Exit Through the Gift Shop | [7] | ||||
| Gasland | |||||
| Inside Job | Won Academy Award | ||||
| Restrepo | |||||
| The Tillman Story | |
The untimely death of former football player turned soldier Pat Tillman | Not nominated | ||
| Waiting for "Superman" | |||||
| Waste Land |
2011
| Film | Director(s) | Countrie(s) | Subject(s) | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Buck | Not nominated | [8] | |||
| Bill Cunningham New York | Not nominated | ||||
| Battle for Brooklyn | Not nominated | ||||
| Hell and Back Again | Nominated | ||||
| If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front - | Marshall Curry | |
The rise and fall of radical environmental group Earth Liberation Front | Nominated | |
| Jane's Journey | Not nominated | ||||
| The Loving Story | Not nominated | ||||
| Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory | Nominated | ||||
| Pina | Wim Wenders |  |
Nominated | ||
| Project Nim | Not nominated | ||||
| Semper Fi: Always Faithful | Not nominated | ||||
| Sing Your Song | Not nominated | ||||
| Undefeated | Won Academy Award | ||||
| Under Fire: Journalists in Combat | Not nominated | ||||
| We Were Here | Not nominated |
2012
| Film | Director(s) | Countrie(s) | Subject(s) | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bully | Not nominated | [9] | |||
| Chasing Ice | Best Original Song nominee | Not nominated | |||
| 5 Broken Cameras | Nominated | ||||
| The Gatekeepers | Nominated | ||||
| How to Survive a Plague | Nominated | ||||
| The Invisible War | Nominated | ||||
| Searching for Sugar Man | Won Academy Award | ||||
| This Is Not a Film | Filmmaker Jafar Panahi's exile from making cinema in Iran | Not nominated |
2013
| Film | Director(s) | Countrie(s) | Subject(s) | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Act of Killing | Nominated | [10] | |||
| Blackfish | |
Controversies surrounding the mistreatment of whales at Sea World | Not nominated | ||
| Cutie and the Boxer | Nominated | ||||
| Dirty Wars | Nominated | ||||
| God Loves Uganda | Not nominated | ||||
| The Square | Nominated | ||||
| 20 Feet from Stardom | Morgan Neville | |
Legendary backup singers (eg.Darlene Love) | Won Academy Award |
2014
| Film | Director(s) | Countrie(s) | Subject(s) | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Citizen Koch | Not nominated | [11][9] | |||
| Citizenfour | Won Academy Award | ||||
| Finding Vivian Maier | Female photographer Vivian Maier | Nominated | |||
| The Internet's Own Boy | Not nominated | ||||
| Jodorowsky's Dune | Cult filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky's attempts at adapting the classic sci-fi novel Dune | Not nominated | |||
| Last Days in Vietnam | Nominated | ||||
| Life Itself | Steve James | |
Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic Roger Ebert | Not nominated | |
| The Salt of the Earth | Nominated | ||||
| Virunga | Nominated |
2015
| Film | Director(s) | Countrie(s) | Subject(s) | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amy |  |
The life and death of singer Amy Winehouse | Won Academy Award | [12][13] | |
| Batkid Begins | A child Batman fan with cancer | Not nominated | |||
| Best of Enemies | The televised arguments between conservative commentator William F. Buckley Jr and progressive novelist Gore Vidal | Not nominated | |||
| Cartel Land | Nominated | ||||
| Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief | Church of Scientology | Not nominated | |||
| He Named Me Malala | Not nominated | ||||
| Heart of a Dog | Laurie Anderson | |
Composer Laurie Anderson's meditative ode to canines | Not nominated | |
| The Hunting Ground | Best Original Song nominee | Not nominated | |||
| I Am Chris Farley | The late comedian Chris Farley | Not nominated | |||
| Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck | Brett Morgen | |
Grunge rock iconoclast Kurt Cobain's upbringing | Not nominated | |
| A Lego Brickumentary | Not nominated | ||||
| Listen to Me Marlon | Archival footage examining the life of Academy Award-winning actor Marlon Brando | Not nominated | |||
| The Look of Silence | Nominated | ||||
| Meru | Not nominated | ||||
| Racing Extinction | Best Original Song nominee | Not nominated | |||
| Tab Hunter Confidential | Gay actor Tab Hunter | Not nominated | |||
| What Happened, Miss Simone? | |
The life and troubled times of singer and civil rights activist Nina Simone | Nominated | ||
| Where to Invade Next | Not nominated | ||||
| Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom | Ukraine's fight for freedom during the Revolution of Dignity | Nominated |
2016
| Film | Director(s) | Countrie(s) | Subject(s) | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Beatles: Eight Days a Week | Ron Howard | Not nominated | [14] | ||
| Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds | |
Not nominated | |||
| Cameraperson | Kirsten Johnson | |
A cinematographer's collection of documentary footage | Not nominated | |
| Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words | |
Cult rock composer Frank Zappa | Not nominated | ||
| Everything is Copy-Nora Ephron:Scriped & Unscripted | |
Not nominated | |||
| Fire at Sea | Nominated | ||||
| Floyd Norman: An Animated Life | |
African-American animator Floyd Norman | Not nominated | ||
| Gleason | |
Not nominated | |||
| I Am Not Your Negro | Raoul Peck | |
Author James Baldwin's unfinished memoir about being black in America | Nominated | |
| Jim: The James Foley Story | Journalist James Foley and the untimely death perpetrated by ISIS; Best Original Song nominee | Not nominated | |||
| Life, Animated | Roger Ross Williams | |
Owen Suskind, son of Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ron Suskind, diagnosed with autism learning about life and communication through classic Disney animated movies | Nominated | |
| Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise | Not nominated | ||||
| Norman Lear: Just Another Vision of You | TV pioneer Norman Lear | Not nominated | |||
| OJ: Made in America | Ezra Edelman | |
The examination of racial divides in America during the O.J. Simpson saga | Won Academy Award | |
| 13th | Ava DuVernay | |
Nominated | ||
| Tower | |
The 1966 University of Texas shooting perpetrated by Charles Whitman | Not nominated | ||
| Weiner | |
The rise and fall of politician Anthony Weiner due to his excessive sexting | Not nominated |
2017
2018
| Film | Director(s) | Countrie(s) | Subject(s) | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Charm City | Marilyn Ness | |
A community in Baltimore, Maryland, over the span of three years of high violence | Not nominated | [18] |
| Communion | Anna Zamecka |  |
Ola, a 14-year old girl who takes care of her dysfunctional, alcoholic father, autistic brother, mother who lives separately, and her preparation of family celebration of her brother's Holy Communion sacrament | Not nominated | |
| Crime + Punishment | Stephen T. Maing | |
A group of black and Latino whistleblower cops and a private investigator who risk everything to expose illegal quota practices and their impact on young minorities | Not nominated | |
| Dark Money | Kimberly Reed | |
The effects of corporate money and influence in the American political system | Not nominated | |
| The Distant Barking of Dogs | Simon Lereng Wilmont |     |
The life of 10-year-old Ukrainian boy Oleg throughout a year during the war in Donbas | Not nominated | |
| Free Solo | Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin | |
Alex Honnold as he attempts to become the first person to ever free solo climb Yosemite National Park's 3,000 foot high El Capitan wall | Won Academy Award | |
| Hale County This Morning, This Evening | RaMell Ross | |
The lives of black people in Hale County, Alabama | Nominated | |
| Minding the Gap | Bing Liu | |
The lives and friendships of three young men growing up in Rockford, Illinois, united by their love of skateboarding | Nominated | |
| Of Fathers and Sons | Talal Derki |     |
Radical jihadism and terrorist training in Syria | Nominated | |
| On Her Shoulders | Alexandria Bombach | |
Human rights activist Nadia Murad, as she met with politicians and journalists to alert the world to the massacres and kidnapping happening in Iraq | Not nominated | |
| RBG | Betsy West, Julie Cohen | |
The life, legacy and career of Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, Ruth Bader Ginsburg | Nominated | |
| Shirkers | Sandi Tan |  |
The making of an independent thriller featuring a teenage assassin set in Singapore | Not nominated | |
| The Silence of Others | Almudena Carracedo, Robert Bahar |  |
The silenced fight of the victims from the dictatorship of Francisco Franco | Not nominated | |
| Three Identical Strangers | Tim Wardle | |
The lives of Edward Galland, David Kellman, and Robert Shafran, a set of identical triplet brothers adopted as infants by separate families | Not nominated | |
| Won't You Be My Neighbor? | Morgan Neville | |
The life, legacy and guiding philosophy of children's television host Fred Rogers | Not nominated |
2019
| Film | Director(s) | Countrie(s) | Subject(s) | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Advocate | Rachel Leah Jones, Philippe Bellaïche |  |
Human rights lawyer Leah Tsemel as she navigates through the Israeli judicial system in defense of Palestinians accused of terrorism | Not nominated | [19][20] |
| American Factory | Steven Bognar, Julia Reichert | |
Chinese company Fuyao's factory in Moraine that occupies Moraine Assembly, a shuttered General Motors plant | Won Academy Award | |
| The Apollo | Roger Ross Williams | |
The history of Apollo Theater in Harlem, New York City | Not nominated | |
| Apollo 11 | Todd Douglas Miller | |
The 1969 Apollo 11 mission | Not nominated | |
| Aquarela | Viktor Kossakovsky | |
Climate change depicted by water and ice around the world | Not nominated | |
| The Biggest Little Farm | John Chester | |
John Chester and his wife Molly as they acquire and establish themselves on Apricot Lane Farms in Moorpark, California | Not nominated | |
| The Cave | Feras Fayyad | |
Dr. Amani Ballour, a physician in Ghouta who is operating a makeshift hospital nicknamed "the Cave" during the Syrian Civil War | Nominated | |
| The Edge of Democracy | Petra Costa |  |
Political past of Costa in a personal way, in context with the first term of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and the events leading to impeachment of Dilma Rousseff | Nominated | |
| For Sama | Waad Al-Kateab, Edward Watts | |
Al-Kateab's journey as a journalist and rebel in the Syrian civil war uprising as she and her husband raise their daughter Sama | Nominated | |
| The Great Hack | Jehane Noujaim, Karim Amer | |
The Facebook–Cambridge Analytica data scandal | Not nominated | |
| Honeyland | Tamara Kotevska, Ljubomir Stefanov |  |
The life of Hatidže Muratova, a loner beekeeper of wild bees who lives in the remote mountain village of Bekirloja, North Macedonia | Nominated | |
| Knock Down the House | Rachel Lears | |
Four female democrats who run for Congress in the 2018 United States elections: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Amy Vilela, Cori Bush and Paula Jean Swearengin | Not nominated | |
| Maiden | Alex Holmes | |
Tracy Edwards and the crew of the Maiden as they compete as the first all-woman crew in the 1989–1990 Whitbread Round the World Race | Not nominated | |
| Midnight Family | Luke Lorentzen |  |
Ochoa family who run a private ambulance business | Not nominated | |
| One Child Nation | Nanfu Wang, Jialing Zhang | |
The fallout of China's one-child policy that lasted from 1980 to 2015 | Not nominated | |
| Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project | Matt Wolf | |
Television producer and activist Marion Stokes and her 7,000 videocassette collection featuring significant events of the 20th-21st centuries. | Not nominated | |
| What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael | Ryan Garver | |
Controversial New Yorker film critic Pauline Kael | Not nominated |
2020
| Film | Director(s) | Countrie(s) | Subject(s) | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All In: The Fight for Democracy | Liz Garbus, Lisa Cortés | |
Voter suppression and the perspective and expertise of Stacey Abrams, the former Minority Leader of the Georgia House of Representatives | Not nominated | [21][22] |
| Boys State | Jesse Moss, Amanda McBaine | |
A thousand teenage boys attending Boys State in Texas, coming to build a representative government from the ground up | Not nominated | |
| Collective | Alexander Nanau |  |
The 2016 public health scandal following the Colectiv nightclub fire | Nominated | |
| Crip Camp | Nicole Newnham, James Lebrecht | |
Camp Jened campers who turned themselves into activists for the disability rights movement in the 1970s and follows their fight for accessibility legislation | Nominated | |
| Dick Johnson Is Dead | Kirsten Johnson | |
Johnson's father Richard "Dick", who suffers from dementia, portraying different ways in which he could ultimately die | Not nominated | |
| Gunda | Viktor Kossakovsky |  |
The daily life of a pig, two cows, and a one-legged chicken | Not nominated | |
| MLK/FBI | Sam Pollard | |
The investigation and harassment of activist Martin Luther King Jr. by J. Edgar Hoover and the Federal Bureau of Investigation | Not nominated | |
| The Mole Agent | Maite Alberdi |  |
A private investigator, Rómulo, hires Sergio, an elderly man to go undercover in a nursing home in Chile | Nominated | |
| My Octopus Teacher | Pippa Ehrlich, James Reed |  |
A year spent by filmmaker Craig Foster forging a relationship with wild common octopus in a South African kelp forest | Won Academy Award | |
| Notturno | Gianfranco Rosi |  |
Different people from areas near war zones in the Middle East who are trying to start over again with their everyday lives | Not nominated | |
| The Painter and the Thief | Benjamin Ree | |
Barbora Kysilkova, an artist, forming a friendship with Karl-Bertil Nordland, a man who stole her artwork | Not nominated | |
| 76 Days | Hao Wu, Weixi Chen, anonymous third |  |
The struggles of patients and frontline medical professionals battling the COVID-19 pandemic in Wuhan | Not nominated | |
| Time | Garrett Bradley | |
Sibil Fox Richardson, fighting for the release of her husband, Rob, who is serving a 60-year prison sentence for engaging in an armed bank robbery | Nominated | |
| The Truffle Hunters | Michael Dweck, Gregory Kershaw |  |
A group of aging men hunt in the woods in Northern Italy, for a prized quarry, the Alba truffle | Not nominated | |
| Welcome to Chechnya | David France | |
LGBT Chechen refugees as they made their way out of anti-gay purges in Chechnya of the late 2010s | Not nominated | |
| Whirlybird | Matt Yoka | |
Zoey Tur's days as Bob Tur, news reporter via helicopter covering important events in the 1990s such as the Rodney King riots and the O.J. Simpson car chase | Not nominated | |
2021
| Film | Director(s) | Countrie(s) | Subject(s) | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ascension | Jessica Kingdon | |
The pursuit of the Chinese Dream | Nominated | [23] |
| Attica | Stanley Nelson Jr., Traci Curry | |
The infamous 1971 Attica Prison riot | Nominated | |
| Billie Eilish: The World's a Little Blurry | R. J. Cutler | |
The career and creative process of singer-songwriter Billie Eilish | Not nominated | |
| Faya Dayi | Jessica Beshir |  |
The rituals of khat, a psychoactive plant that plays an important role in Ethiopia's economy and culture | Not nominated | |
| The First Wave | Matthew Heineman | |
A hospital in New York City, as it battles the COVID-19 pandemic | Not nominated | |
| Flee | Jonas Poher Rasmussen | |
Amin Nawabi, who shares his hidden past of fleeing his home country of Afghanistan to Denmark for the first time | Nominated | |
| In the Same Breath | Nanfu Wang | |
The response of the Chinese and American governments to the COVID-19 pandemic | Not nominated | |
| Julia | Julie Cohen, Betsy West | |
The life of cooking teacher and television personality Julia Child | Not nominated | |
| President | Camilla Nielsson |  |
The career of Nelson Chamisa who takes on the corrupt ruling party in Zimbabwe | Not nominated | |
| Procession | Robert Greene | |
The six men, who suffered abuse by priests, looking for peace | Not nominated | |
| The Rescue | Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin | |
The 2018 Tham Luang cave rescue | Not nominated | |
| Simple as Water | Megan Mylan | |
The Syrian families across five countries, revealing the impact of war, separation, and displacement | Not nominated | |
| Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) | Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson | |
The 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival | Won Academy Award | |
| The Velvet Underground | Todd Haynes | |
The life and times of influential rock band The Velvet Underground | Not nominated | |
| Writing with Fire | Sushmit Ghosh, Rintu Thomas |  |
The journalists running the Dalit women-led newspaper Khabar Lahariya, as they shift from 14 years of print to digital journalism using smartphones | Nominated |
2022
| Film | Director(s) | Countrie(s) | Subject(s) | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2nd Chance | Ramin Bahrani | United States |
The life of Richard Davis, the man who invented the concealable bulletproof vest | Not nominated | [24] |
| 752 Is Not a Number | Babak Payami | .svg.png.webp){kind=small} Canada |
Canadian dentist Hamed Esmaeilion's quest for justice after Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 was shot down in 2020 by the Iranian military | Not nominated | |
| A House Made of Splinters | Simon Lereng Wilmont | Denmark Ukraine Sweden |
The care of the staff of an institution for children who have been removed from their homes. | Nominated | |
| A Star Without a Star: The Untold Juanita Moore Story | Kirk E. Kelleykahn | United States |
A group of strangers wonder why African American actress Juanita Moore (of Douglas Sirk's Imitation of Life fame) doesn't have a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame. | Not nominated | |
| Aftershock | Paula Eiselt & Tonya Lewis Lee | United States |
The fight for justice of Omari Maynard and Bruce McIntyre, whose partners died of childbirth complications | Not nominated | |
| All That Breathes | Shaunak Sen | India United States United Kingdom |
Two brothers devote their lives to protect one casualty of the turbulent times: the bird known as the black kite | Nominated | |
| All the Beauty and the Bloodshed | Laura Poitras | United States |
The life of artist Nan Goldin and the downfall of the Sackler family | Nominated | |
| At Home Walking | Rajula Shah | India |
Poetic monologues and the music of wandering bards accompany the pilgrims and nomads of modern-day India | Not nominated | |
| The Automat | Lisa Hurwitz | United States |
The story of Horn & Hardart, pioneering food service company | Not nominated | |
| Bad Axe | David Siev | United States |
David Siev's Asian-American family struggles to keep their local restaurant afloat amidst racial tensions and the COVID-19 pandemic | Not nominated | |
| The Balcony Movie | Paweł Łoziński | Poland |
Director Paweł Łoziński observes, talks and questions people passing under his balcony in Warsaw | Not nominated | |
| Black Ice | Not nominated | ||||
| Blue Island | Not nominated | ||||
| Calendar Girls | Not nominated | ||||
| Children of the Mist | Ha Le Diem |  Vietnam |
The Di Hmong teenager faces challenges growing up. In traditional Di culture, girls are married at the age of 14. But at school he learns that there are alternatives. | Not nominated | |
| Claydream | |
Academy Award-winning Claymation pioneer Will Vinton | Not nominated | ||
| Cow | Andrea Arnold | United Kingdom |
The life of a dairy cow, named Luma, at Park Farm in Kent, England | Not nominated | |
| The Day the Music Died: The Story of Don McLean’s American Pie | The story behind Don McLean's iconic song American Pie | Not nominated | |||
| Descendant | Margaret Brown | United States |
The community of Africatown and the descendants of some of the last known enslaved Africans that were brought to the United States | Not nominated | |
| Eami | Paz Encina |  Paraguay |
Settlers invade Eami land. In it she embodies Asojá, the bird goddess, to travel through the forests and say goodbye to them | Not nominated | |
| Eternal Spring | Jason Loftus | Canada |
The 2002 Falun Gong hijacking of television stations in Changchun and the continued crackdown on ethnic and religious minority groups in China | Not nominated | |
| Fanny: The Right to Rock | Not nominated | ||||
| Fiddler’s Journey to the Big Screen | The story behind the making of Fiddler on the Roof | Not nominated | |||
| Fire of Love | Sara Dosa | United States Canada |
The life and career of the daring French volcanologists Katia and Maurice Krafft, who were ultimately killed in the 1991 eruption of Mount Unzen | Nominated | |
| Framing Agnes | Chase Joynt | Canada |
Joynt and a cast of transgender actors recreate various studies of Harold Garfinkel's work with transgender clients at the University of California, Los Angeles | Not nominated | |
| Free Chol Soo Lee | United States |
Korean-American man wrongfully convicted for Chinatown murder in 1970s San Francisco[25] | Not nominated | ||
| Gabby Giffords; Won’t Back Down | Not nominated | ||||
| Gamestop: Rise of the Players | Jonah Tulis | United States |
GameStop's short squeeze of 2021, in which GameStop shares rose more than 2,500% amid rampant volatility. | Not nominated | |
| Good Night Oppy | Ryan White | United States |
The story of Opportunity, nicknamed Oppy, a Mars rover launched in 2003 that originally was expected to operate for only 90 sols but explored Mars for nearly 15 years | Not nominated | |
| Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, a Journey, a Song | Daniel Geller & Dayna Goldfine | United States Canada |
The story of Leonard Cohen, and his song "Hallelujah" | Not nominated | |
| Hello, Bookstore | A.B. Zax | United States |
The story of "The Bookstore" in Lenox, Massachusetts | Not nominated | |
| Hidden Letters | Violet Du Feng & Qing Zhao | China |
The story of two Chinese women trying to balance their lives as independent women in modern China while confronting the traditional identity that defines but also oppresses them. | Not nominated | |
| Hold Your Fire | Stefan Forbes | United States |
The 1973 New York City hostage incident in Brooklyn, New York, which helped give birth to the modern hostage negotiation | Not nominated | |
| I Didn’t See You There | Reid Davenport | United States |
The history and legacy of P.T. Barnum’s Freak Show and its lingering presence in his daily life in the form of gawking, lack of access, and other forms of ableism | Not nominated | |
| Is That Black Enough for You?!? | Elvis Mitchell | United States |
Follow the evolution and revolution of African-American cinema from its origins to the powerful blaxploitation films of the 1970s | Not nominated | |
| The Janes | Tia Lessin & Emma Pildes | United States |
The story of a clandestine service for women seeking safe, affordable, and illegal abortions, calling themselves JANE | Not nominated | |
| Katrina Babies | Edward Buckles Jr. | United States |
The impact that Hurricane Katrina had on the youth of New Orleans | Not nominated | |
| Last Flight Home | Ondi Timoner | United States |
In his final days, we discover Eli Timoner and an extraordinary life of wild achievements, tragic loss and most of all, enduring love | Not nominated | |
| Look at Me: XXXtentacion | Sabaah Folayan | United States |
The life and death of the rapper and singer XXXTentacion | Not nominated | |
| Midwives | Not nominated | ||||
| Moonage Daydream | Brett Morgen | Germany United States |
David Bowie's creative, spiritual and musical journey | Not nominated | |
| My Old School |  Scotland United States |
The Brandon Lee scandal | Not nominated | ||
| Navalny | Daniel Roher | United States |
The poisoning of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny | Nominated | |
| The New Abolitionists | Christina Zorich | United States Cambodia Thailand |
Follows Southeast Asian abolitionists who have dedicated their lives to rescuing, rehabilitating, preventing, and prosecuting those involved in human sex trafficking. | Not nominated | |
| Nothing Compares | Kathryn Ferguson | United Kingdom Ireland |
The life and legacy of Sinéad O'Connor | Not nominated | |
| The Princess | Ed Perkins | United Kingdom |
The life and legacy of Diana, Princess of Wales | Not nominated | |
| Retrograde | Matthew Heineman | United States |
The Events that took place during the last nine months of the United States' 20-year war in Afghanistan | Not nominated | |
| Riotsville, U.S.A. | Sierra Pettengill | United States |
The US military's response to the riots of the late 1960s | Not nominated | |
| Salvatore: Shoemaker of Dreams | Not nominated | ||||
| Selena Gomez: My Mind and Me | Alek Keshishian | United States |
The life and career of singer and actress Selena Gomez | Not nominated | |
| Sextortion: The Hidden Pandemic | Maria Demeshkina Peek | United States |
The hidden world of online enticement and exploitation of children | Not nominated | |
| Sidney | Reginald Hudlin | United States |
The life and legacy of actor Sidney Poitier | Not nominated | |
| The Silence of the Mole | Anaïs Taracena |  Guatemala |
A journalist called "mole" infiltrated the heart of one of the most repressive governments in Guatemala in the 1970s | Not nominated | |
| Sr. | Chris Smith | United States |
The careers and relationship between Robert Downey Jr. and his father, Robert Downey Sr. | Not nominated | |
| Stutz | Jonah Hill | United States |
The life and career of Dr. Phil Stutz, Hill's therapist | Not nominated | |
| The Territory | Alex Pritz | United States United Kingdom Brazil Denmark |
The attempts of a young indigenous leader of the Uru-eu-wau-wau, an Amazonian tribe contacted by the Brazilian government only in 1980 | Not nominated | |
| Turn Every Page – The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb | Lizzie Gottlieb | United States |
The relationship between biographer Robert Caro and his editor, Robert Gottlieb | Not nominated | |
| The Unredacted (Jihad Rehab) | Meg Smaker | United States |
A group of former jihadists who have been released from Guantanamo Bay detention camp to the Prince Mohammed Bin Nayef Center for Advice and Care, a rehabilitation center for Islamist jihadis in Saudi Arabia | Not nominated | |
| The Voice of Dust and Ash | Mandana Biscotti | United States |
The life story of Iran's iconic artist and humanitarian Maestro Shajarian, told through the animated lens of the unofficial anthem for Iranian freedom, Morq-e Sahar. | Not nominated | |
| The Volcano: Rescue From Whakaari | Rory Kennedy | United States |
The deadly 2019 volcanic eruption in Bay of Plenty, New Zealand | Not nominated | |
| We Are Art Through the Eyes of Annalaura | Annalaura di Luggo | Italy |
The Annalaura's greatest artistic challenge: the creation of Collòculi, an immersive, multi-media and interactive art installation | Not nominated | |
| What We Leave Behind | Iliana Sosa | United States
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A man quietly begins to build a house in rural Mexico while his granddaughter composes a personal and poetic love letter to him and his homeland. | Not nominated | |
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