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The Academy Award for Documentary Feature is one of the most prestigious awards for documentary films. Winners
Following the Academy's practice, films are listed by the "award year", which is also the year in which the film was released under the Academy's rules for eligibility. Due to the limited nature of documentary distribution, a film may be released in different years in different venues, sometimes years after production is complete.
For 1942 there was one Documentary category and four winners
- 1942
- Battle of Midway
- Kokoda Front Line
- Moscow Strikes Back
- Prelude To War
From 1943 there were two separate documentary categories
- 1943 Desert Victory
- 1944 The Fighting Lady
- 1945 The True Glory
- 1946 none given
- 1947 Design for Death
- 1948 The Secret Land
- 1949 Daybreak in Udi
- 1950 The Titan: Story of Michelangelo
- 1951 Kon-Tiki
- 1952 The Sea Around Us
- 19531953 is a common year starting on Thursday (click on link for the calendar). Events January events January 7 President Harry S. Truman announces the United States has developed a hydrogen bomb. January 13 Marshal Josip Broz Tito chosen President of Yugosl The Living DesertThe Living Desert is a 1953 Walt Disney documentary film which shows the everyday lives of the animals of the desert of the southwestern United States. The movie was written by James Algar, Winston Hibler, Jack Moffitt (uncredited) and Ted Sears. It was d
- 1954Events January events January 14 The Hudson Motor Car Company merges with Nash-Kelvinator forming the American Motors Corporation January 14 Marilyn Monroe weds Joe DiMaggio. January 15 Mau Mau leader Waruhiu Itote is captured in Kenya January 20 The Nati The Vanishing Prairie
- 19551955 is a common year starting on Saturday. see link for calendar) Events January events January 2 Panama president Jose Antonio Remon is assassinated. January 19 The Scrabble board game debuts. February events February 8 Nikolai Bulganin ousts Georgi Mal Helen Keller in Her Story
- 19561956 is a leap year starting on Sunday. see link for calendar) Events January January 1 End of Anglo- Egyptian Condominium in Sudan. January 16 President Gamal Abdal Nasser of Egypt vows to reconquer Palestine January 26 1956 Winter Olympic Games open in The Silent World
- 1957Events January January 2 San Francisco and Los Angeles stock exchanges merge. January 3 Hamilton Watch Company introduces the first electric watch January 4 After 69 years the last issue of Colliers magazine is published January 5 Russell Endean becomes t Albert Schweitzer
- 1958Events January January 1 Treaty of Rome founding the EU is implemented January 4 Sputnik 1 falls to Earth from its orbit (launched on October 4 1957) January 8 14 year old Bobby Fischer wins the United States Chess Championship January 18 Armed Lumbee Nat White Wilderness
- 1959 Serengeti Shall Not Die
- 1960 The Horse with the Flying Tail
- 1961 Sky Above and Mud Beneath
- 1962 Black Fox: The Rise and Fall of Adolf Hitler
- 1963 Robert Frost: A Lover's Quarrel With the World
- 1964 Jacques-Yves Cousteau's World Without Sun
- 1965 The Eleanor Roosevelt Story
- 1966 The War Game
- 1967 The Anderson Platoon
- 1968 Journey Into Self Note: At the 41st Awards ceremony on April 14, 1969, Young Americans was announced as the winner of the Documentary Feature Oscar. On May 7, 1969, the film was declared ineligible after it was revealed that the film had played in October of 1967, therefore ineligible for a 1968 Award. The first runner-up, Journey into Self was awarded the statuette on May 8, 1969.
- 1969 Arthur Rubinstein - The Love of Life
- 1970 Woodstock
- 1971 The Hellstrom Chronicle
- 1972 Marjoe
- 1973 The Great American Cowboy
- 1974 Hearts and Minds
- 1975 The Man Who Skied Down Everest
- 1976 Harlan County, U.S.A.
- 1977 Who Are the Debolts? And Where Did They Get Nineteen Kids?
- 1978 Scared Straight!
- 1979 Best Boy
- 1980 From Mao to Mozart: Isaac Stern in China
- 1981 Genocide
- 1982 Just Another Missing Kid
- 1983 He Makes Me Feel Like Dancin'
- 1984 The Times of Harvey Milk
- 1985 Broken Rainbow
- 1986 (tie):
- Artie Shaw: Time Is All You've Got
- Down and Out in America
- 1987 The Ten-Year Lunch: The Wit and Legend of the Algonquin Round Table
- 1988
- 1989 Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt
- 1990 American Dream
- 1991 In the Shadow of the Stars
- 1992 The Panama Deception
- 1993 I Am a Promise: The Children of Stanton Elementary School
- 1994 Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision
- 1995 Anne Frank Remembered
- 1996 When We Were Kings
- 1997 The Long Way Home
- 1998 The Last Days
- 1999 One Day in September
- 2000 Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport
- 2001 Murder on a Saturday Morning
- 2002 Bowling for Columbine
- Daughter From Danang
- Le Peuple migrateur
- Prisoner of Paradise
- Spellbound
- 2003 The Fog of War
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