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Errol Morris • Starring: Robert S. McNamara
Biography • Culture and Society • Documentary
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Michael Wadleigh • Starring: Joan Baez, Joe Cocker, The Who
Concert Film • Documentary • Music
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James Marsh • Starring: Philippe Petit
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Barbara Kopple • Starring: John Corcoran, John O'Leary, Norman Yarborough
Americana • Biography • Documentary
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Leon Gast • Starring: James Brown, Muhammad Ali, George Foreman
Biography • Documentary • History
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Ezra Edelman • Starring: O.J. Simpson
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Malik Bendjelloul • Starring: Malik Bendjelloul, Rodriguez
Biography • Documentary • Music
8
Rob Epstein • Starring: Harvey Fierstein, Harvey Milk, Anne Kronenberg
Biography • Documentary • Gay and Lesbian Film
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Louie Psihoyos • Starring: Louie Psihoyos, Richard O'Berry, Isabel Lucas
Documentary
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Michael Moore • Starring: Charlton Heston, Matt Stone, Marilyn Manson
Culture and Society • Documentary • Law and Crime
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Peter Davis • Starring: Richard Nixon, Walt Rostow, Robert Kennedy
Anti-War Film • Documentary • Military and War
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Jimmy Chin, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi • Starring: Alex Honnold
Biography • Documentary • Female-Directed Film
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Asif Kapadia • Starring: Amy Winehouse, Mitch Winehouse, Mark Ronson
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Peter Watkins • Starring: Michael Aspel, Peter Graham
Docudrama • Drama • Mockumentary
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Charles Ferguson • Starring: Matt Damon
Culture and Society • Documentary • Politics and Government
16
Laura Poitras
Documentary • Female-Directed Film
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Luc Jacquet • Starring: Morgan Freeman
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Davis Guggenheim • Starring: Al Gore
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Kevin Macdonald • Starring: Michael Douglas, Ankie Spitzer, Jamal Al Gashey
Documentary • History • Law and Crime
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Alex Gibney • Starring: Carlotta Gall, Scott Horton, Carl Levin
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Morgan Neville • Starring: Darlene Love, Merry Clayton, Lisa Fischer
Documentary • History • Music
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Zana Briski, Ross Kauffman
Culture and Society • Documentary • Prostitution Film
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Bryan Fogel • Starring: Bryan Fogel, Grigory Rodchenkov
Culture and Society • Documentary • Social Issues
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Dan Lindsay, T.J. Martin • Starring: Montrail 'Money' Brown, O.C. Brown, Bill Courtney
Documentary • Sports and Recreation
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Sarah Kernochan, Howard Smith • Starring: Marjoe Gortner, Sarah Kernochan
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Thor Heyerdahl • Starring: Thor Heyerdahl
Culture and Society • Documentary • Social History
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Jean-Xavier de Lestrade • Starring: Brenton Butler, Patrick McGuinness, Ann Linnel
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Pippa Ehrlich, James Reed • Starring: Craig Foster
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Marcel Ophüls • Starring: Klaus Barbie, Marcel Ophüls, Claude Lanzmann
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James Algar • Starring: Winston Hibler
Animal Picture • Documentary
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Arnold Shapiro
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Mark Jonathan Harris • Starring: Judi Dench, Lory Cahn, Kurt Fuchel
Documentary • History • Military and War
33
Steven Bognar, Julia Reichert
Culture and Society • Documentary • Female-Directed Film
34
Jon Blair • Starring: Kenneth Branagh, Glenn Close, Anne Frank
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Walon Green, Ed Spiegel • Starring: Lawrence Pressman
36
Ira Wohl • Starring: Philip Wohl, Zero Mostel, Christine O'Connor
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Jacques-Yves Cousteau, Louis Malle
Documentary • Foreign Language Film
38
Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman
39
Arnold Schwartzman • Starring: Elizabeth Taylor, Orson Welles, Simon Wiesenthal
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Pierre Schoendoerffer
Biography • Documentary • Foreign Language Film
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Daniel Roher • Starring: Alexei Navalny, Christo Grozev, Yulia Navalnaya
Biography • Documentary • Politics and Government
43
Robert J. Flaherty, Richard Lyford
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Garson Kanin, Carol Reed
45
Jacques-Yves Cousteau
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Unknown • Starring: Robert Montgomery, Robert Taylor, Van Heflin
Adventure • Biography • Culture and Society
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John Korty
Biography • Documentary
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Murray Lerner
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Bruce Nyznik, Lawrence Schiller
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