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All winners in the Best Documentary Feature category. The first year it was awarded, 1942, it was given to four films and half of those were shorts - so only the two feature-lengths are included here. In 1946 there was no award in the category.

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  1. 62 -

    Bowling for Columbine

    2002, in 11 top lists Check
  2. 29 -

    Woodstock

    1970, in 12 top lists Check
  3. 68 -

    Man on Wire

    2008, in 6 top lists Check
  4. 66 -

    An Inconvenient Truth

    2006, in 3 top lists Check
  5. 33 -

    Hearts and Minds

    1974, in 7 top lists Check
  6. 65 -

    La marche de l'empereur

    2005 — a.k.a. March of the Penguins, in 3 top lists Check
  7. 63 -

    The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of...

    2003 — a.k.a. The Fog of War, in 6 top lists Check
  8. 35 -

    Harlan County U.S.A.

    1976, in 11 top lists Check
  9. 43 -

    The Times of Harvey Milk

    1984, in 8 top lists Check
  10. 72 -

    Searching for Sugar Man

    2012, in 6 top lists Check
  11. 25 -

    The War Game

    1966, in 12 top lists Check
  12. 75 -

    Amy

    2015, in 2 top lists Check
  13. 70 -

    Inside Job

    2010, in 4 top lists Check
  14. 74 -

    Citizenfour

    2014, in 3 top lists Check
  15. 69 -

    The Cove

    2009, in 2 top lists Check
  16. 15 -

    Le monde du silence

    1956 — a.k.a. The Silent World, in 3 top lists Check
  17. 56 -

    When We Were Kings

    1996, in 7 top lists Check
  18. 2 -

    Prelude to War

    1942 — a.k.a. Why We Fight, in 4 top lists Check
  19. 64 -

    Born Into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kids

    2004, in 1 top list Check
  20. 10 -

    Kon-Tiki

    1950, in 3 top lists Check
  21. 67 -

    Taxi to the Dark Side

    2007, in 2 top lists Check
  22. 5 -

    The True Glory

    1945, in 3 top lists Check
  23. 30 -

    The Hellstrom Chronicle

    1971, in 3 top lists Check
  24. 23 -

    Le monde sans soleil

    1964 — a.k.a. World Without Sun, in 1 top list Check
  25. 4 -

    The Fighting Lady

    1944, in 1 top list Check
  26. 12 -

    The Living Desert

    1953, in 2 top lists Check
  27. 57 -

    The Long Way Home

    1997, in 1 top list Check
  28. 26 -

    La section Anderson

    1967 — a.k.a. The Anderson Platoon, in 3 top lists Check
  29. 61 -

    Un coupable idéal

    2001 — a.k.a. Murder on a Sunday Morning, in 2 top lists Check
  30. 54 -

    Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision

    1994, in 2 top lists Check
  31. 59 -

    One Day in September

    1999, in 1 top list Check
  32. 37 -

    Scared Straight!

    1978, in 1 top list Check
  33. 36 -

    Who Are the DeBolts? [And Where Did They Get 19...

    1977, in 1 top list Check
  34. 50 -

    American Dream

    1990, in 2 top lists Check
  35. 38 -

    Best Boy

    1979, in 3 top lists Check
  36. 44 -

    Broken Rainbow

    1985, in 1 top list Check
  37. 20 -

    Le ciel et la boue

    1961 — a.k.a. Sky Above and Mud Beneath, in 1 top list Check
  38. 3 -

    Desert Victory

    1943, in 1 top list Check
  39. 39 -

    From Mao to Mozart: Isaac Stern in China

    1979, in 1 top list Check
  40. 40 -

    Genocide

    1982, in 1 top list Check
  41. 48 -

    Hôtel Terminus

    1988, in 6 top lists Check
  42. 53 -

    I Am a Promise: The Children of Stanton...

    1993, in 1 top list Check
  43. 51 -

    In the Shadow of the Stars

    1991, in 1 top list Check
  44. 58 -

    The Last Days

    1998, in 2 top lists Check
  45. 34 -

    The Man Who Skied Down Everest

    1975, in 1 top list Check
  46. 31 -

    Marjoe

    1972, in 3 top lists Check
  47. 1 -

    Razgrom nemetskikh voysk pod Moskvoy

    1942 — a.k.a. Moscow Strikes Back, in 1 top list Check
  48. 22 -

    Robert Frost: A Lover's Quarrel with the World

    1963, in 1 top list Check
  49. 73 -

    Twenty Feet from Stardom

    2013 — a.k.a. 20 Feet from Stardom, in 2 top lists Check
  50. 71 -

    Undefeated

    2011, in 1 top list Check
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