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Year
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Director
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Documentary
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2016
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Orlando von Einseidel
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The White Helmets
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2015
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Sharmeed Obaid-Chinoy
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A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness
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2014
|
Ellen Goosenberg Kent
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Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1
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2013
|
Malcolm Clarke
|
The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life
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|
2012
|
Sean Fine and Andrea Nix
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Inocente
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2011
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Sharmeed Obaid-Chinoy and Daniel Junge
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Saving Face
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2010
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Karen Goodman and Kirk Simon
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Strangers No More
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2009
|
Roger Ross Williams
|
Music By Prudence
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2008
|
Megan Mylan
|
Smile Pinki
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|
2007
|
Cynthia Wade
|
Freeheld
|
|
2006
|
Ruby Yang
|
The Blood of Yingzhou District
|
|
2005
|
Eric Simonson
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A Note of Triumph: The Golden Age of Norman Corwin
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|
2004
|
Robert Houston
|
Mighty Times: The Children's March
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|
2003
|
Maryann DeLeo
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Chernobyl Heart
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|
2002
|
Bill Guttentag and Robert David Port
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Twin Towers
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|
2001
|
Sarah Kernochan
|
Thoth
|
|
2000
|
Tracy Seretean
|
Big Mama
|
|
1999
|
Susan Hannah Hadary and William A. Whiteford
|
King Gimp
|
|
1998
|
Keiko Ibi
|
The Personals: Improvisations on Romance in the Golden Years
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|
1997
|
Donna Dewey
|
A Story of Healing
|
|
1996
|
Jessica Yu
|
Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O'Brien
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|
1995
|
Kary Antholis
|
One Survivor Remembers
|
|
1994
|
Charles Guggenheim
|
A Time for Justice
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|
1993
|
Margaret Lazarus and Renner Wunderlich
|
Defending Our Lives
|
|
1992
|
Gerardine Wurzburg
|
Educating Peter
|
|
1991
|
Debra Chasnoff
|
Deadly Deception: General Electric, Nuclear Weapons and Our Environment
|
|
1990
|
Steven Okazaki
|
Days of Waiting: The Life & Art of Estelle Ishigo
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|
1989
|
Charles Guggenheim
|
The Johnstown Flood
|
|
1988
|
Malcolm Clarke and Bill Guttentag
|
You Don't Have to Die
|
|
1987
|
Sue Marx and Pamela Conn
|
Young at Heart
|
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1986
|
Vivienne Verdon-Roe
|
Women - for America, for the World
|
|
1985
|
Deborah Shaffer
|
Witness to War: Dr. Charlie Clements
|
|
1984
|
Marjorie Hunt and Paul Wagner
|
The Stone Carvers
|
|
1983
|
Cynthia Scott
|
Flamenco at 5:15
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|
1982
|
Terre Nash
|
If You Love This Planet
|
|
1981
|
Nigel Noble
|
Close Harmony
|
|
1980
|
Roland Hallé and Peter W. Ladue
|
Karl Hess: Toward Liberty
|
|
1979
|
Saul J. Turell
|
Paul Robeson: Tribute to an Artist
|
|
1978
|
Ben Shedd
|
The Flight of the Gossamer Condor
|
|
1977
|
John C. Joseph
|
Gravity Is My Enemy
|
|
1976
|
Lynne Littman
|
Number Our Days
|
|
1975
|
Robin Lehman
|
The End of the Game
|
|
1974
|
Robin Lehman
|
Don't
|
|
1973
|
Julian Krainin and DeWitt Sage
|
Princeton: A Search for Answers
|
|
1972
|
Charles & Martina Huguenot van der Linden
|
This Tiny World
|
|
1971
|
Robert Amram
|
Sentinels of Silence
|
|
1970
|
Joseph Strick
|
Interviews with My Lai Veterans
|
|
1969
|
Denis Sanders and Robert M. Fresco
|
Czechoslovakia 1968
|
|
1968
|
Saul Bass
|
Why Man Creates
|
|
1967
|
Trevor Greenwood and Mark Jonathan Harris
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The Redwoods
|
|
1966
|
Edmond Levy
|
A Year Toward Tomorrow
|
|
1965
|
Alexander Hammid and Francis Thompson
|
To Be Alive!
|
|
1964
|
Charles Guggenheim
|
Nine from Little Rock
|
|
1963
|
Lauro Venturi
|
Chagall
|
|
1962
|
Jack Howells
|
Dylan Thomas
|
|
1961
|
Frank P. Bibas
|
Project Hope
|
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1960
|
James Hill
|
Giuseppina
|
|
1959
|
Bert Haanstra
|
Glass
|
|
1958
|
Ben Sharpsteen and Walt Disney
|
Ama Girls
|
|
1957
|
No Award Given.
|
|
1956
|
Louis Clyde Stoumen
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The True Story of the Civil War
|
|
1955
|
Winston Hibler
|
Men Against the Arctic
|
|
1954
|
Lindsay Anderson and Guy Brenton
|
Thursday's Children
|
|
1953
|
James Algar
|
The Alaskan Eskimo
|
|
1952
|
Norman McLaren
|
Neighbours
|
|
1951
|
Fred Zinnemann
|
Benjy
|
|
1950
|
Edmund Reek
|
Why Korea?
|
|
1949
|
James L. Shute
|
A Chance to Live
|
|
Chuck Jones
|
So Much for So Little
|
|
1948
|
U.S. Army
|
Toward Independence
|
|
1947
|
Leo Seltzer
|
First Steps
|
|
1946
|
David Miller
|
Seeds of Destiny
|
|
1945
|
Don Siegel
|
Hitler Lives
|
|
1944
|
Louis Hayward
|
With the Marines at Tarawa
|
|
1943
|
John Ford and Gregg Toland
|
December 7th: The Movie
|
|
1942
|
Frank Capra
|
Prelude to War
|
|
Leonid Varlamov and Ilya Kopalin
|
Moscow Strikes Back
|
|
Ken G. Hall
|
Kokoda Front Line!
|
|
John Ford
|
The Battle of Midway
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|
1941
|
Stuart Legg
|
Churchill's Island
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