Hôtel Terminus (1988) - Marcel Ophüls
Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt won the Oscar for Documentary - Feature - in 1989.
The Johnstown Flood won the Oscar for Documentary - Short Subject - in 1989.
An Inconvenient Truth won the Oscar for Best Documentary of 2006.
Best Boy won the Oscar for Documentary - Feature - in 1979.
Undefeated won the Oscar for Best Documentary in 2012. The documentary focused on a high school football team in Georgia and had not been considered the top contender for the prize.
She was the subject of the 2008 Oscar winning Short Documentary.
Taxi to the Dark Side (2007) won the Academy Award (Oscar) for Best Documentary Feature (Alex Gibney and Eva Orner).
Genocide won the Oscar for Documentary - Feature - in 1981.
Marjoe won the Oscar for Documentary - Feature - in 1972.
The Cove won the Oscar for Documentary - Feature - in 2009.
When We Were Kings won the Oscar for Documentary - Feature - in 1996.
Woodstock won the Oscar for Documentary - Feature - in 1970.