This article lists the winners and nominees for the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Documentary.
History This award was first given in 2008, before being discontinued after the 2009 ceremony. The award returned during the 2017 ceremony, this time honoring film and television documentaries separately.
Winners and nominees Winners are listed first and highlighted in bold.
2000s Year Documentary Ref 2008 Darfur Now Bastards of the Party Desert Bayou Price of Sugar Sicko≠ 2009 Good Hair Capitalism: A Love Story Crips and Bloods: Made in America Crude More Than a Game
2010s Film Year Documentary Ref 2017 13th≠ I Am Not Your Negro≠ Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise Miss Sharon Jones! Olympic Pride, American Prejudice 2018 Step I Called Him Morgan Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Black Colleges and Universities The Rape of Recy Taylor Whose Streets?2019Amazing GraceMaking The Five HeartbeatsQuincyRBG≠Whitney
Television Year Documentary Ref 2017 Roots: A New Vision Major League Legends: Hank Aaron Policing the Police Roots: A History Revealed Streets of Compton 2018 The 44th President: In His Own Words Birth of a Movement Black Love The Defiant Ones What the Health 2019 Say Her Name: The Life and Death of Sandra Bland Hope & Fury: MLK, The Movement and the Media King in the Wilderness Shut Up & Dribble Time for Ilhan
2020s Film Year Documentary Ref 2020 Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool The Black Godfather The Apollo True Justice: Bryan Stevenson's Fight for Equality 2021 John Lewis: Good Trouble All In: The Fight for Democracy Coded Bias Mr. Soul! On the Record 2022 Barbara Lee: Speaking Truth to Power Attica≠ My Name Is Pauli Murray Summer of Soul± Tina
Television Year Documentary Ref 2020 Hitsville: The Making of Motown Free Meek Homecoming: A Film by Beyoncé Martin: The Legacy of a King ReMastered: The Two Killings of Sam Cooke 2021 The Last Dance And She Could Be Next Black Love Enslaved: The Lost History of the Transatlantic Slave Trade Unsung 2022 High on the Hog: How African American Cuisine Transformed America 1971: The Year Music Changed Everything American Masters: How It Feels to Be True Blood Brothers: Malcolm X and Muhammad Ali Insecure Documentary
Footnotes ≠ indicates an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature nomination ± indicates an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature win
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