Prize-Winning Documentaries

Oscar, Emmy, BAFTA and Sundance winners and nominees, and festival selections, free from their makers' official uploads.

Winners, Nominees and Festival Picks

Period. End of Sentence. | FULL FEATURE (Oscar Winner, 26 min, Netflix)
20 Days in Mariupol | Academy Award® Winner (Oscar Winner, 94 min, FRONTLINE PBS)
Knock Down The House | FULL FEATURE (Sundance Winner, 87 min, Netflix)
The Man Who Skied Down Everest (Oscar Winner, 83 min, Real Stories)
For Sama (Emmy Winner, 84 min, FRONTLINE PBS)
The Man Who Skied Down Everest (Oscar Winner, 84 min, Wonder)
Flamenco at 5:15 (Oscar Winner, 29 min, National Film Board of Canada)
City of Gold (Cannes Winner, 22 min, National Film Board of Canada)
Churchill'S Island (Oscar Winner, 21 min, National Film Board of Canada)
If You Love This Planet (Oscar Winner, 26 min, National Film Board of Canada)
Lowland Kids (Palm Springs Selection, 22 min, Short of the Week)
The Rising Tide (Oscar Nominee, 29 min, National Film Board of Canada)
Universe (Oscar Nominee, 28 min, National Film Board of Canada)
The Colours of My Father: A Portrait of Sam Borenstein (Oscar Nominee, 29 min, National Film Board of Canada)
9at38 (Tribeca Selection, 18 min, Aeon)
Capital City (Ottawa Selection, 29 min, National Film Board of Canada)
Hardwood (Oscar Nominee, 29 min, National Film Board of Canada)
Sunrise Over Tiananmen Square (Oscar Nominee, 29 min, National Film Board of Canada)
The Living Stone (Oscar Nominee, 33 min, National Film Board of Canada)
The Fight: Science Against Cancer (Oscar Nominee, 21 min, National Film Board of Canada)
The Big Wait (SXSW Selection, 15 min, Yannick Jamey)
A Capital Plan (Ottawa Selection, 11 min, National Film Board of Canada)
Warclouds in the Pacific (Oscar Nominee, 22 min, National Film Board of Canada)
Stranger at the Gate (Oscar Nominee, 30 min, The New Yorker)
Walk, Run, Cha-Cha (Oscar Nominee, 20 min, The New York Times)
A Love Affair with Politics: A Portrait of Marion Dewar (Ottawa Selection, 27 min, National Film Board of Canada)
Reporting on The Times (Tribeca Selection, 18 min, Aeon)
THE COLLECTION - A remarkable $10M movie memorabilia discovery (SXSW Selection, 11 min, Short of the Week)
Camera On Labour No. 2 (Ottawa Selection, 10 min, National Film Board of Canada)
The Man in the Peace Tower (Ottawa Selection, 9 min, National Film Board of Canada)
Oskee Wee Wee (Ottawa Selection, 11 min, National Film Board of Canada)
The Watchmaker (SXSW Selection, 9 min, Aeon)
Norman, Norman (TIFF Selection, 8 min, Aeon)
Quilt Fever (SXSW Selection, 16 min, Olivia Loomis Merrion)
Whistling Smith (Oscar Nominee, 27 min, National Film Board of Canada)
Born to be Mild (SXSW Selection, 15 min, Aeon)
A Bus - For Us (Ottawa Selection, 15 min, National Film Board of Canada)
American Renaissance (Tribeca Selection, 9 min, Aeon)
Black Sheep (Oscar Nominee, 16 min, Aeon)
Love. Love. Love. (Sundance Selection, 11 min, Aeon)
One Year Lease (Tribeca Selection, 11 min, Aeon)
Queer Teenagers Experience Intimacy for the First Time (Sundance Selection, 11 min, Matthew Puccini)
I Came from the Unknown to Sing (BAFTA Nominee, 11 min, Aeon)
4.1 Miles (Oscar Nominee, 21 min, The New York Times)

Curators' Picks

Puffling (Staff Pick, 20 min, The New Yorker)
Between Earth & Sky (Staff Pick, 25 min, Andrew Nadkarni)
The Spectacle (Staff Pick, 20 min, The New Yorker)
An Act Of Service (Staff Pick, 18 min, Brandon Kapelow)
Violet Gave Willingly (2022) by Claire Sanford (Staff Pick, 23 min, Claire Sanford)
Immoral Code (Staff Pick, 23 min, Nice and Serious)
UNDERSTORY - Tongass Documentary (Staff Pick, 40 min, Wild Confluence)
INSIGNIFICANT (Staff Pick, 32 min, Clément Morin)
THE WORLD IN A CORNER / LA ESQUINA DEL MUNDO (Staff Pick, 21 min, Mariano Rentería Garnica)
Coral City (Staff Pick, 37 min, The Creators Project)
Sticky (Staff Pick, 20 min, jilli rose)
Contra el Mar / Against the Sea (Staff Pick, 20 min, Richard Parkin)
Makeover Movie (Staff Pick, 18 min, Sue Ding)
THE SIDEWALK ARTIST (Staff Pick, 21 min, WATCHALE)
Drawing Life (Staff Pick, 23 min, The New Yorker)
Forgotten (Staff Pick, 18 min, Daniel Soares)
Silent Sam (Staff Pick, 21 min, The Guardian)
SWEET NOTHING (Staff Pick, 21 min, Sean Dunne)
Hometown: A Portrait of the American Opioid Epidemic (Staff Pick, 35 min, Lindytown)
Groundhog Town (Staff Pick, 23 min, The New Yorker)
Long Line of Ladies (Staff Pick, 22 min, The New York Times)
Golden Jubilee (Staff Pick, 19 min, Suneil Sanzgiri)
Field of Vision - We Were There to Be There (Staff Pick, 27 min, Field of Vision)
Elle pis son char (Staff Pick, 28 min, Loïc Darses)
Sam and the Plant Next Door (Staff Pick, 23 min, The Guardian)
The Super Salmon (Staff Pick, 25 min, Ryan Peterson)
Altered Focus: Burma (Staff Pick, 19 min, James Holman Film)
Pickin' & Trimmin' (Staff Pick, 20 min, Matt Morris Films)
COME OUT OF THE WOODS (Short of the Week, 32 min, Jonny Blair)
Chicken Stories (Staff Pick, 18 min, The New Yorker)
The Best Chef in the World (Staff Pick, 20 min, Breakwater Studios Ltd.)
Arctic Summer (Staff Pick, 24 min, frank and beans pictures)
Joe Dante's Battle With Hollywood (Staff Pick, 37 min, Andrew Saladino)
Nellie Bly Makes the News (Staff Pick, 23 min, Reveal)
Farmer's Footprint | Regeneration : The Beginning (Staff Pick, 20 min, Farmer's Footprint)
Dig It If You Can (Staff Pick, 19 min, Kyle Bell)
Brussels Express (Staff Pick, 20 min, Sander Vandenbroucke)
The Final Copy of Ilon Specht (Staff Pick, 18 min, Breakwater Studios Ltd.)
Exit 238 (Staff Pick, 12 min, Henry Davis)
The Winterkeeper (Staff Pick, 13 min, The Guardian)
You'll Be Happier (Staff Pick, 20 min, The New Yorker)
PANDEMIC (Staff Pick, 23 min, Autobahn)
Scars: how our wounds make us who we are (Staff Pick, 19 min, The Guardian)
COMING HOME - Ag Teacht Abhaile (Staff Pick, 24 min, Dooster)
Beyond the Horizon (Staff Pick, 25 min, Cold Collaborative)
Hitters (Staff Pick, 18 min, Scott Carthy)
Shanghai 5 (Staff Pick, 23 min, Charles Lanceplaine)
Prosopagnosia (Staff Pick, 10 min, Steven Fraser)
HEROIC DOSE (Staff Pick, 14 min, DUGI GUNDELFINGER)
The Promise of Spring (Staff Pick, 14 min, Anna Louise Andersen)
HEADS (Staff Pick, 8 min, Benjamin Berman)
American Seams (Staff Pick, 17 min, The Plains)
Instruments of a Beating Heart (Staff Pick, 23 min, Ema Ryan Yamazaki)
Then Comes The Body (Staff Pick, 15 min, Wild Combination)
Dicks That I Like (Staff Pick, 13 min, Johanna Gustin)
Theo Anthony Makes A Stool (Staff Pick, 12 min, Joe Stankus)
Mr. Yellow Sweatshirt (Staff Pick, 8 min, JZB Projects)
Town Square — An Experiment in Memory Care (Staff Pick, 33 min, Speculative Films)
Last Days on Lake Trinity (Staff Pick, 30 min, The New Yorker)
The School of Canine Massage (Staff Pick, 11 min, Emma D. Miller)
Direcciones (Staff Pick, 14 min, The New Yorker)
CRYING GLACIER (Staff Pick, 14 min, El Flamingo)
In the Garden of Tulips (Staff Pick, 14 min, Julia R. Elihu)
White Grass (Staff Pick, 16 min, Justin W. Kim)
El Bastón (Staff Pick, 15 min, Nemo Allen)
Requiem for a Whale (Staff Pick, 15 min, The New Yorker)
Life, Composed. (Staff Pick, 14 min, gnarly bay)
Changeling (Staff Pick, 16 min, Garson Ormiston)
OUR ARK (Staff Pick, 13 min, Institute of Time)
Nuisance Bear (Staff Pick, 14 min, The New Yorker)
Greywater (Staff Pick, 15 min, The New Yorker)
The Elvermen (Staff Pick, 14 min, Isla Badenoch)
VOICE ABOVE WATER (Staff Pick, 12 min, TurningTidesFilms, Dana Frankoff)
Murmuration (Staff Pick, 8 min, Mattia Palombi)
The Spiritual Exercises (Staff Pick, 18 min, The New York Times)
SEAWOLF (Staff Pick, 9 min, Alexander Sworik)
BLAU (Staff Pick, 15 min, davidsophie)
There's Something in the Water (Staff Pick, 8 min, Rory WT)
Landing on Airwaves (Staff Pick, 14 min, Jonathan Napolitano)
A Year Along the Geostationary Orbit (Staff Pick, 16 min, Felix Dierich)
The Swarm Chaser (Staff Pick, 9 min, Maxwell Monty)
al imam (Staff Pick, 19 min, Omar Al Dakheel)
Person of the Forest (Staff Pick, 17 min, Melissa Lesh)
Part Time Heroes : A Sea Shepherd Documentary (Staff Pick, 13 min, Quentin van den Bossche)
Fly By Night (Staff Pick, 14 min, Olivia Merrion)
Bright Spots (Staff Pick, 8 min, jilli rose)
Duke and the Buffalo (Staff Pick, 15 min, Bows & Arrows)
National Geographic - The Last Rhinos (Staff Pick, 9 min, Brian Dawson)
The Rocket On The Roof (Staff Pick, 14 min, Brudder)
Douglas Tompkins: Wild Legacy (Staff Pick, 16 min, Tompkins Conservation)
Pigeon Kings of Brooklyn (Staff Pick, 8 min, Narratively)
she++: The Documentary (Staff Pick, 12 min, Ellora Israni)
Doomed: a biological cartoon! (Staff Pick, 10 min, El Señor Studio)
LOST AT SEA (Staff Pick, 12 min, Marcus O'Brien)
Salty Dogs (Staff Pick, 8 min, 18% Productions)
KIGO (Staff Pick, 11 min, Lluis Masachs)
Isle de Jean Charles (Short of the Week, 9 min, EmergenceMagazine.org)
The Good Farmer and the Failed Son (Staff Pick, 14 min, Ailill Martin)
Liquid, Fragile, Perishable (Staff Pick, 9 min, Dooster)
Love in the Time of Migration (Staff Pick, 21 min, Erin Semine Kökdil)
Will You Look At Me (Staff Pick, 20 min, Shuli)
Visible Mending (Staff Pick, 9 min, Samantha Moore)
Coming Home (Staff Pick, 11 min, margot bowman)
Drawing on Autism (Staff Pick, 10 min, Alex Widdowson)
Lightfall - A Journey in Photography with Sterling Lorence (Staff Pick, 14 min, Ride Shimano)
Inuuteq Storch: Who We Are (Staff Pick, 17 min, Louisiana Channel)
RatTail (Staff Pick, 15 min, Chad Sogas)
Bill Blaine - A Walk Around the House (Staff Pick, 12 min, Jakub Blank)
SHARED EARTH | Chilliwack River Clay (Staff Pick, 10 min, Inmist)
Small Talk (Staff Pick, 10 min, Paul Szynol/Itchy Dog Films)
After The Fall (Staff Pick, 8 min, Matthew Freidell)
LIVE FAST, DRAW YUNG (Staff Pick, 16 min, DALLAS)
Hoan Alone: Personal Stories from the Bridge (Staff Pick, 9 min, Aaron Johnson)
TURF Fever (Staff Pick, 8 min, Kevin J Gordon)
Catherine Opie b. 1961 | Art + Film (Staff Pick, 14 min, LACMA)
Where Are All the Bob Ross Paintings? We Found Them. (Staff Pick, 11 min, The New York Times)
If You Know Me Is To Love Me (Staff Pick, 11 min, HELLER films)
We the Bathers (Staff Pick, 17 min, Phoebe Arnstein)
Saul Bass's Movie Posters (Staff Pick, 8 min, Andrew Saladino)
While I yet Live (Staff Pick, 15 min, Nightshade Films)
49 Mile Scenic Drive (Staff Pick, 10 min, bradley smith)
ELI (Staff Pick, 11 min, Nate Milton)
IN THE SPACE BETWEEN AGES (Staff Pick, 9 min, Travis Lee Ratcliff)
David's Voice (Staff Pick, 14 min, Chad Carbone)
Liberty Hill (Staff Pick, 9 min, Katie & Andrew)
Xavier Corberó: Portrait of an Artist in Winter (Staff Pick, 14 min, Coco Marie Schneider)
Sanderson to Brackettville (Staff Pick, 8 min, Parker Hill)
A Kid From Somewhere: Pat O'Rourke - NOWNESS (Staff Pick, 10 min, NOWNESS)
Three Red Sweaters (Staff Pick, 10 min, Martha Gregory)
AS BEAUTIFUL INSIDE (Staff Pick, 9 min, Will Mayo)
ANDY (Staff Pick, 8 min, Cavin Brothers)
Oliver Jeffers (Staff Pick, 16 min, Bas Berkhout)
Heroin (Staff Pick, 17 min, Topic)
Kunstglaser (Staff Pick, 9 min, Breakwater Studios Ltd.)
Fig's Representation (Staff Pick, 12 min, Jonathan Napolitano)
Dangerous Curves (Staff Pick, 12 min, Merete Mueller)
LEADERS OF THE PACK (Staff Pick, 13 min, Erin Sanger)
A Continuous Shape (Staff Pick, 9 min, Eyes & Ears)
James Turrell: You Who Look | Art + Film (Staff Pick, 8 min, LACMA)
Ineffable (Staff Pick, 15 min, Jesse Brass)
Some Kind Of Quest (Staff Pick, 11 min, Andrew Wilcox)
The Back Road (Staff Pick, 9 min, Ben Kitnick)
Nix + Gerber (Staff Pick, 8 min, The Drawing Room)
Robert Rushkin | The Artist (Staff Pick, 9 min, Builders Club)
A Thousand Hands Ago (Staff Pick, 11 min, S Ensby)
Jen Mann: The Self Practice (Staff Pick, 14 min, Cameron Bryson)
I Thought I Told You To Shut Up!! (Staff Pick, 13 min, Charlie Tyrell)
Autism Rocks - The AutistiX (Staff Pick, 9 min, The Guardian)
WIZARD MODE (Staff Pick, 10 min, Salazar)
HEAVY DREAMERS (Staff Pick, 15 min, Booooooom)
Dear Araucaria (Staff Pick, 10 min, The Guardian)
Litefeet (Staff Pick, 18 min, Scott Carthy)
The Absent Column (Staff Pick, 8 min, Nathan Eddy)
Justin Boyd: Sound and Time (Staff Pick, 9 min, Walley Films)
SYMPHONIE CINÉTIQUE -THE POETRY OF MOTION FILM (Staff Pick, 8 min, Nicolas Zeh CheChe)
Needle Exchange (Staff Pick, 10 min, Colm Quinn)
Beijing Silvermine - Thomas Sauvin (Staff Pick, 12 min, Emiland Guillerme)
Death Do Us Part (Staff Pick, 12 min, Ian Ruhter : Alchemist)
MIT Architecture (Staff Pick, 13 min, Stebs!)
LIES - animated documentary by Jonas Odell (Staff Pick, 14 min, jonas odell)
Mr. Smith's Peach Seeds (Staff Pick, 12 min, Stewart Copeland)
Odysseus' Gambit (Staff Pick, 12 min, Àlex Lora)
The [ahr-tuh-zen] Project: Dave Lefner (Staff Pick, 12 min, Serena Creative)
Live Cinema Documentary (Staff Pick, 9 min, toby*spark)
This is Karma (Staff Pick, 11 min, Erling Hoveid)
Can't Nobody Else Love You (Short of the Week, 22 min, Ivan Olita)
FLO (Short of the Week, 10 min, Riley Hooper)
The Roving Typist (Short of the Week, 10 min, Mark Cersosimo)
AMERICAN JUGGALO (Short of the Week, 23 min, Sean Dunne)
Demolition (Staff Pick, 8 min, The New Yorker)
Dress A Cow (Staff Pick, 10 min, Vanishing Angle)
American Scar (Staff Pick, 14 min, The New Yorker)
Vida Buena (Staff Pick, 15 min, benjamin buxton)
Last Stop For Lost Property (Staff Pick, 13 min, Vicente Cueto)
Into the Circle (Staff Pick, 17 min, Universe Creative)
Drop by Drop (Staff Pick, 10 min, Agência - Portuguese Short Films)
Alpha Mare (Staff Pick, 10 min, Victor Tadashi Suarez)
ENOUGH: A Dream. A Nightmare. A Musical. (Staff Pick, 14 min, Caleb Slain)
SAOIRSE (Staff Pick, 9 min, MARION)
All Cats Are Gray in the Dark (Staff Pick, 17 min, The New York Times)
All I Have to Offer You Is Me (Staff Pick, 14 min, The New York Times)
The Felling of Colston (Staff Pick, 10 min, Arthur Cauty)
Now Is the Time (Staff Pick, 16 min, National Film Board of Canada)
HOLY DOG (Staff Pick, 13 min, Mah Ferraz)
Pet Therapy (Staff Pick, 8 min, Charles Frank)
Betty Feeds The Animals (Staff Pick, 9 min, James P. Gannon)
Almost Famous: Kim I Am (Staff Pick, 14 min, The New York Times)
Lost World (Staff Pick, 16 min, EmergenceMagazine.org)
Your Train Is Delayed. Why? (Staff Pick, 11 min, The New York Times)
That's My Jazz (Staff Pick, 14 min, Breakwater Studios Ltd.)
Field of Vision - Scenes from a Dry City (Staff Pick, 13 min, Field of Vision)
Hurricane Heroes (Staff Pick, 10 min, Shawn Bannon)
Lonesome Willcox (Staff Pick, 12 min, Maxey Fish)
Land of the Strays (Staff Pick, 13 min, Adrian Cicerone)
The Hanging (Staff Pick, 15 min, weathered features)
Winter's Watch (Staff Pick, 14 min, Brian Bolster)
Smoke That Travels (Staff Pick, 13 min, Kayla Briët)
The 10th Element of Hip Hop (Staff Pick, 13 min, Alison Klayman)
Platform 1 (Staff Pick, 10 min, Jessica Bishopp)
THE KING WITHIN (Staff Pick, 9 min, Liam Saint-Pierre)