National Film Award for Best Historical Reconstruction/Compilation Film

National Film Award for Best Historical Reconstruction/Compilation Film
National award for contributions to short film
Sponsored by	Directorate of Film Festivals
Reward(s)	Rajat Kamal (Silver Lotus) ₹50,000
First award	1984
Final award	2017
Most recent winner	•Naachi se Baanchi  •Sword of Liberty
Highlights
Total awarded	24
First winner	Nehru

The National Film Award for Best Historical Reconstruction/Compilation Film was one of the National Film Awards presented annually by the Directorate of Film Festivals, the organisation set up by Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, India. It was one of several awards presented for non-feature films.

The award was instituted in 1984, at 32nd National Film Awards and awarded annually for non-feature films produced in the year across the country, in all Indian languages. ^[1] At the 69th National Film Awards, the award is clubbed with National Film Award for Best Biographical Film, with the new category named as Best Biographical / Historical Reconstruction / Compilation Film. ^[2]

Awards

Awards legends
	Indicates a joint award for the year

Award includes 'Rajat Kamal' (Silver Lotus Award) and cash prize. Following are the award winners over the years:

List of films, showing the year, language(s), producer(s) and director(s)
Year	Film(s)	Language(s)	Producer(s)	Director(s)	Refs.
1984 (32nd)	Nehru	English	Yash Chowdhary	• Shyam Benegal  •Yuri Aldokhin	[1]
1985 (33rd)	No Award				[3]
1986 (34th)	We The People of India	English	N. S. Thapa for Films Division	Bhanumurthy Alur	[4]
1987 (35th)	The Story of Delhi	English	Serbjeet International for Films Division	Serbjeet Singh	[5]
1988 (36th)	No Award				[6]
1989 (37th)	Chhapakhanar Bangla Haraf	Bengali	•Shreemati Chatterjee  •Chandrika Bhattacharjee	Abhijit Chattopadhyay	[7]
	Kathni Karni Eksi (Jamnalal Bajaj)	Hindi	M/s Climb Films	Bhim Sain
1990 (38th)	No Award				[8]
1991 (39th)	Anand Bhavan	English	Yash Chaudhary	V. B. Chandra	[9]
1992 (40th)	No Award				[10]
1993 (41st)	No Award				[11]
1994 (42nd)	Phalke Children	English	•R. Krishna Mohan  •Y. N. Engineer	Kamal Swaroop	[12]
1995 (43rd)	Bhalji Pendharkar	English	•C. S. Nair  •B. R. Shendge for Films Division	P. B. Pendharkar for Films Division	[13]
1996 (44th)	No Award				[14]
1997 (45th)	Ayyankili: Adhastitharude Vimochakan	Malayalam	•P. Sasidharan  •A. Krishna	R. S. Madhu	[15]
1998 (46th)	Anna Vaazhigirar	Tamil	Tamil Nadu Films Division	Tamil Nadu Films Division	[16]
1999 (47th)	No Award				[17]
2000 (48th)	From the land of Buddhism to the Land of Buddha	English	Kuldip Sinha for Films Division	Shalini Shah for Films Division	[18]
2001 (49th)	No Award				[19]
2002 (50th)	No Award				[20]
2003 (51st)	Vaidyaratnam P. S. Varrier	English	Kerala State Film Development Corporation	T. Krishnan Unni	[21]
2004 (52nd)	No Award				[22]
2005 (53rd)	Hans Akela: Kumar Gandharva†	Hindi	Films Division	Jabbar Patel
2006 (54th)	No Award				[23]
2007 (55th)	Antardhwani†	Hindi	Films Division	Jabbar Patel	[24]
2008 (56th)	The Assassination of Rajiv Gandhi: A Reconstruction	English	Films Division	R. Krishna Mohan	[25]
2009 (57th)	Pancham Unmixed	• Bengali  •Hindi  •English	Brahmanand S. Siingh	Brahmanand S. Siingh	[26]
2010 (58th)	No Award				[27]
2011 (59th)	Vishnupant Damle: Bolpatancha Mook Nayak †	Marathi	Anil Anant Damle	Virendra Valsangkar	[28]
2012 (60th)	Celluloid Man †	•English  •Hindi  • Kannada  •Bengali	Shivendra Singh Dungarpur	Shivendra Singh Dungarpur	[29]
2013 (61st)	The Last Adieu†	English	Films Division	Shabnam Sukhdev	[30]
2014 (62nd)	Amar Katha: Story of Binodini†	Bengali	Films Division	Tuhinabha Majumder	[31]
2015 (63rd)	Life in Metaphors: A Portrait of Girish Kasaravalli†	•English  •Kannada	Reelism Film	O.P. Shrivastava	[32]
2016 (64th)	Zikr Us Parivaksha: Begum Akhtar†	English	Sangeet Natak Akademi	Nirmal Chander	[33]
2017 (65th)	Naachi se Baanchi†		Films Division of India	Biju Toppo
	Sword of Liberty†		R. C. Suresh	Shiny Jacob Benjamin
2018 (66th)	No Award				[34]
2019 (67th)	No Award				[35]
2020 (68th)	No Award				[36]

References

1. "32nd National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 6 January 2012.
2. Under Secretary to the Government of India (14 December 2023). "Report on Rationalization of Awards Conferred by the Ministry of Information & Broadcasting | Ministry of Information and Broadcasting | Government of India". Ministry of Information and Broadcasting . Retrieved 25 August 2024.
3. "33rd National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 29 March 2022.
4. "34th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 29 March 2022.
5. "35th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 29 March 2022.
6. "36th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 29 March 2022.
7. "37th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 29 March 2022.
8. "38th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 29 March 2022.
9. "39th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 29 March 2022.
10. "40th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 29 March 2022.
11. "41st National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 29 March 2022.
12. "42nd National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 29 March 2022.
13. "43rd National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 29 March 2022.
14. "44th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 29 March 2022.
15. "45th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 29 March 2022.
16. "46th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 29 March 2022.
17. "47th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 29 March 2022.
18. "48th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 29 March 2022.
19. "49th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 29 March 2022.
20. "50th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 29 March 2022.
21. "51th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 29 March 2022.
22. "52nd National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 29 March 2022.
23. "54th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 29 March 2022.
24. "55th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 29 March 2022.
25. "56th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 29 March 2022.
26. "57th National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 29 March 2022.
27. "58th National Film Awards, 2010" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 29 March 2022.
28. "59th National Film Awards for 2011 – Non-Feature Films" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 2 April 2012.
29. "60th National Film Awards Announced" (PDF) (Press release). Press Information Bureau (PIB), India. Retrieved 17 April 2014.
30. "61st National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. 16 April 2014. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 April 2014. Retrieved 16 April 2014.
31. "62nd National Film Awards" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. 30 March 2015. Retrieved 14 May 2015.
32. "63rd National Film Awards" (PDF) (Press release). Directorate of Film Festivals. 28 March 2016. Retrieved 28 March 2016.
33. "64th National Film Awards" (PDF) (Press release). Directorate of Film Festivals. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 June 2017. Retrieved 7 April 2017.
34. "66th National Film Awards for 2018 announced". pib.gov.in. Retrieved 5 October 2024.
35. "67th National Film Awards announced". Press Information Bureau . 22 March 2021. Retrieved 9 October 2024.
36. "68th National Film Awards announced". Press Information Bureau . 22 July 2022. Retrieved 7 February 2025.

External links

• National Film Awards Archives
• Official Page for Directorate of Film Festivals, India