| Year | Film | Director(s) | Producer(s) |
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| 2010 | Exit Through the Gift Shop [4] | Banksy |
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| Marwencol | Jeff Malmberg |
| Restrepo | Tim Hetherington and Sebastian Junger |
| Sweetgrass | Lucien Castaing-Taylor |
| Thunder Soul | Mark Landsman |
| 2011 | The Interrupters [5] | Steve James | Steve James, Alex Kotlowitz |
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| An African Election | Jarreth J. Merz and Kevin Merz | Jarreth J. Merz |
| Bill Cunningham New York | Richard Press | Philip Gefter |
| The Redemption of General Butt Naked | Daniele Anastasion and Eric Strauss |
| We Were Here | David Weissman |
| 2012 | The Invisible War [6] | Kirby Dick |
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| The Central Park Five | Ken Burns, Sarah Burns, and David McMahon |
| How to Survive a Plague | David France |
| Marina Abramović: The Artist is Present | Matthew Akers and Jeff Dupre |
| The Waiting Room | Peter Nicks |
| 2013 | 20 Feet from Stardom [7] | Morgan Neville | Gil Friesen, Morgan Neville, Caitrin Rogers |
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| The Act of Killing | Joshua Oppenheimer and Christine Cynn | Joshua Oppenheimer, Joram Ten Brink, Christine Cynn, Anne Köhncke, Signe Byrge Sørensen, Michael Uwemedimo, Anonymous |
| After Tiller | Martha Shane and Lana Wilson |
| Gideon's Army | Dawn Porter | Dawn Porter, Julie Goldman |
| The Square | Jehane Noujaim | Karim Amer |
| 2014 | Citizenfour [8] | Laura Poitras | Laura Poitras, Mathilde Bonnefoy, Dirk Wilutzky |
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| 20,000 Days on Earth | Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard | Dan Bowen, James Wilson |
| The Salt of the Earth | Wim Wenders and Juliano Ribeiro Salgado | David Rosier |
| Stray Dog | Debra Granik | Anne Rosellini |
| Virunga | Orlando von Einsiedel | Orlando von Einsiedel, Joanna Natasegara |
| 2015 | The Look of Silence [9] | Joshua Oppenheimer | Signe Byrge Sørensen |
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| (T)error | Lyric R. Cabral and David Felix Sutcliffe |
| Best of Enemies | Robert Gordon and Morgan Neville |
| Heart of a Dog | Laurie Anderson | Laurie Anderson, Dan Janvey |
| Meru | Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi |
| The Russian Woodpecker | Chad Garcia | Mike Lerner, Ram Devineni, Chad Gracia |
| 2016 | O.J.: Made in America [10] | Ezra Edelman | Ezra Edelman, Deirdre Fenton, Libby Geist, Nina Krstic, Erin Leyden, Tamara Rosenberg, Connor Schell, Caroline Waterlow |
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| 13th | Ava DuVernay | Howard Barish, Ava DuVernay, Spencer Averick |
| Cameraperson | Kirsten Johnson | Kirsten Johnson, Marilyn Ness |
| I Am Not Your Negro | Raoul Peck | Raoul Peck, Rémi Grellety, Hébert Peck |
| Sonita | Rokhsareh Ghaemmaghami | Gerd Haag |
| Under the Sun | Vitaly Mansky | Natalya Manskaya |
| 2017 | Faces Places [11] | Agnès Varda and JR | Rosalie Varda |
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| The Departure | Lana Wilson |
| Last Men in Aleppo | Feras Fayyad | Kareem Abeed, Søren Steen Jespersen, Stefan Kloos |
| Motherland | Ramona Diaz | Rey Cuerdo |
| Quest | Jonathan Olshefski | Sabrina Schmidt Gordon |
| 2018 | Won't You Be My Neighbor? | Morgan Neville | Morgan Neville, Caryn Capotosto, Nicholas Ma |
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| Hale County This Morning, This Evening | RaMell Ross | RaMell Ross, Joslyn Barnes, Su Kim |
| Minding the Gap | Bing Liu | Bing Liu, Diane Moy Quon |
| Of Fathers and Sons | Talal Derki | Hans Robert Eisenhauer, Ansgar Frerich, Eva Kemme, Tobias N. Siebert |
| On Her Shoulders | Alexandria Bombach | Hayley Pappas, Brock Williams |
| Shirkers | Sandi Tan | Sandi Tan, Jessica Levin, Maya E. Rudolph |
| 2019 | American Factory | Steven Bognar, Julia Reichert | Steven Bognar, Julia Reichert, Jeff Reichert, Julie Parker Benello |
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| Apollo 11 | Todd Douglas Miller | Todd Douglas Miller, Thomas Petersen and Evan Krauss |
| For Sama | Waad Al-Kateab, Edward Watts | Waad Al-Kateab |
| Honeyland | Tamara Kotevska, Ljubomir Stefanov | Tamara Kotevska, Ljubomir Stefanov, Atanas Georgiev |
| Island of the Hungry Ghosts | Gabrielle Brady | Alexander Wadouh, Samm Haillay, Alex Kelly, Gizem Acarla and Gabrielle Brady |