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Joshua Oppenheimer, Christine Cynn • Starring: Haji Anif, Syamsul Arifin, Sakhyan Asmara
Culture and Society • Documentary • Foreign Language Film
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Banksy • Starring: Rhys Ifans, Banksy, Shepard Fairey
Culture and Society • Documentary
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Andrew Jarecki • Starring: Arnold Friedman, David Friedman, Seth Friedman
Biography • Culture and Society • Documentary
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Ezra Edelman • Starring: O.J. Simpson
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Jeffrey Blitz • Starring: Angela Arenivar, Neil Kadakia, Nupur Lala
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Tim Hetherington • Starring: Dan Kearney, Lamonta Caldwell, Kevin Rice
Culture and Society • 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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Joshua Oppenheimer
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Ava DuVernay • Starring: Cory Booker, Angela Davis, Henry Louis Gates
Documentary • Female-Directed Film • Law and Crime
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Asif Kapadia • Starring: Amy Winehouse, Mitch Winehouse, Mark Ronson
Biography • Documentary • Music
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Werner Herzog • Starring: David Ainley, Samuel S. Bowser, Regina Eisert
Documentary • Foreign Language Film
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Laura Poitras
Documentary • Female-Directed Film
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Henry Alex Rubin • Starring: Keith Cavill, Mark Zupan, Joe Soares
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Raoul Peck • Starring: Samuel L. Jackson
Culture and Society • Documentary • Social History
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Alex Gibney • Starring: Peter Coyote
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Joe Berlinger, Bruce Sinofsky • Starring: Damien Wayne Echols, Jason Baldwin, Jessie Miskelly
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Heidi Ewing, Rachel Grady • Starring: Levi, Mike Papantonio, Pastor Becky Fischer
Documentary • Sociology
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Morgan Spurlock • Starring: Morgan Spurlock
Culture and Society • Documentary • Social Issues
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Michael Moore • Starring: Michael Moore
Culture and Society • Documentary • Politics and Government
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Bing Liu
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Wim Wenders • Starring: Compay Segundo, Eliades Ochoa, Ry Cooder
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Spike Lee • Starring: Maxine McNair, Chris McNair, Helen Pegues
Biography • Documentary • History
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Jacques Perrin • Starring: Jacques Perrin
Animal Picture • Documentary
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Questlove • Starring: Stevie Wonder, Nina Simone, B.B. King
Concert Film • Culture and Society • Documentary
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Amy Berg • Starring: Bob Jyono, Nancy Sloan, Marie Jyono
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Robert Kenner • Starring: Gary Hirschberg, Michael Pollan, Joe Salatin
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Morgan Neville • Starring: Darlene Love, Merry Clayton, Lisa Fischer
Documentary • History • Music
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Kirby Dick
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Charles Ferguson • Starring: Gerald Burke, Maj. Gen. Paul Eaton, Marc Gerlasco
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David France • Starring: David Barr, Gregg Bordowitz, Jim Eigo
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Bryan Fogel • Starring: Bryan Fogel, Grigory Rodchenkov
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Agnès Varda, JR • Starring: Agnès Varda, JR, Laurent Levesque
Documentary • Female-Directed Film • Foreign Language Film
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Wim Wenders • Starring: Pina Bausch, Regina Advento, Malou Airaudo
Dance Film • Musical
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Josh Fox • Starring: Josh Fox, Scott Stringer, Aubrey K. McClendeon
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Matthew Heineman
Documentary • Law and Crime
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Sam Green, Bill Siegel • Starring: Bernardine Dohrn, David Gilbert, Laura Whitehorn
Culture and Society • Documentary • History
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Liz Garbus
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Julie Cohen, Betsy West • Starring: Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Gloria Steinem, Nina Totenberg
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Jonas Poher Rasmussen • Starring: Rashid Aitouganov
Animation • Biography • Documentary
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John Maloof, Charlie Siskel
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William Gazecki • Starring: Dan Gifford, Jack Harwell, David Thibodeau
Documentary • History • Politics and Government
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Judith Ehrlich, Rick Goldsmith • Starring: John Dean, Daniel Ellsberg, Patricia Ellsberg
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Lucy Walker, Karen Harley, João Jardim • Starring: Vik Muniz
Biography • Documentary • Sociology
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Pippa Ehrlich, James Reed • Starring: Craig Foster
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Jehane Noujaim • Starring: Khalid Abdalla, Magdy Ashour, Ahmed Hassan
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Roger Ross Williams • Starring: Owen Suskind, Ron Suskind
Biography • Documentary
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Lauren Lazin • Starring: Tupac Shakur
Biography • Documentary • Media Documentary
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Juliano Ribeiro Salgado, Wim Wenders • Starring: Wim Wenders, Juliano Ribeiro Salgado, Sebastião Salgado
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Orlando von Einsiedel
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Marshall Curry • Starring: Sharpe James, Rich McGrath, Cory Booker
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Emad Burnat, Guy Davidi
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Sara Dosa • Starring: Katia Krafft, Maurice Krafft, Miranda July
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Marshall Curry, Sam Cullman
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Anders Østergaard
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Evgeny Afineevsky
Documentary • Foreign Language Film • Politics and Government
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Tamara Kotevska, Ljubomir Stefanov • Starring: Hatidze Muratova, Nazife Muratova, Hussein Sam
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Rory Kennedy
Documentary • History • Military and War
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Dror Moreh
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Rick Rowley
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Steven Bognar, Julia Reichert
Culture and Society • Documentary • Female-Directed Film
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Carl Deal, Tia Lessin • Starring: Jerome Baham, Brian Nobles, Kendall "Wink" Rivers
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Josh Aronson
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Zachary Heinzerling • Starring: Noriko Shinohara, Ushio Shinohara
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Roko Belic • Starring: Paul Pena, Kongar-ol Ondar
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Alexander Nanau • Starring: Razvan Lutac, Mirela Neag, Catalin Tolontan
Documentary • Foreign Language Film • Law and Crime
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Daniel Roher • Starring: Alexei Navalny, Christo Grozev, Yulia Navalnaya
Biography • Documentary • Politics and Government
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Byambasuren Davaa, Luigi Falorni • Starring: Chimed Ohin, Zeveljamz Nyam, Odgerel Ayisch
Animal Picture • Culture and Society • Documentary
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Waad Al-Kateab, Edward Watts
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Garson Kanin, Carol Reed
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Unknown • Starring: Robert Montgomery, Robert Taylor, Van Heflin
Adventure • Biography • Culture and Society
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Garrett Bradley
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Hubert Sauper
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Danfung Dennis
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Barbara Connell, Bill Jersey • Starring: Ernie Chambers, Ray Cristensen, Bill Youngdahl
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Murray Lerner
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James Lebrecht, Nicole Newnham • Starring: Larry Allison, Dennis Billups, HolLynn D'Lil
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Robert Stone • Starring: Kilon Bauno, John Smitherman
Documentary • War
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Nathaniel Kahn • Starring: Nathaniel Kahn, Louis I. Kahn, Philip Johnson
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Jack Arnold • Starring: Sam Levene, Arlene Francis, Joseph Wiseman
Docudrama • Documentary • Drama
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Liz Garbus, Wilbert Rideau
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Paul Cowan
Documentary • Sports and Recreation
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Peter Baylis • Starring: Orson Welles, Patrick Wymark, George Westbury
Biography • Documentary • War
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Susan Warms Dryfoos • Starring: Al Hirschfeld, Dolly Haas Hirschfeld, Carol Channing
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David Helpern • Starring: John Huston, Zero Mostel, Dalton Trumbo
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Alexander Grasshoff • Starring: Milton C. Anderson, The Young Americans, Vicki Lawrence
Culture and Society • Documentary • Music
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Robin Anderson, Bob Connolly • Starring: Richard Oxenburgh, Daniel Leahy, Mick Leahy
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Jean Aurel • Starring: Cécil Saint-Laurent
Documentary • History • War
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Robert Dornhelm, Earle Mack • Starring: Grace Kelly, Angelina Armeiskaya, Michaela Cerna
Biography • Dance Film • Documentary
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Richard Kaplan
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Donald Brittain, John Kramer • Starring: Marjorie Bonner, Donald Brittain, Richard Burton
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Henry Hampton • Starring: Julian Bond, Coretta Scott King, Andrew Young
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Christian Frei • Starring: James Nachtwey, Christiane Amanpour, Hans-Hermann Klare
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Sturla Gunnarsson • Starring: James B. Douglas, Janine Manatis, Anne Christison
Docudrama
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Romolo Marcellini • Starring: Wilma Rudolph, Rafer Johnson, Abebe Bikila
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Keith Critchlow, Walter F. Parkes • Starring: Allen Vincent, Ken McAllister, Paul Raymond
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Tony Ianzelo, Torben Schioler
Documentary
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Robert B. Weide • Starring: Robert De Niro
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Carlos Bolado, B.Z. Goldberg
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Meg Switzgable • Starring: Frank Kaler, Rita Kaler, Ted Kordis
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Muriel Balash • Starring: Anton Dolin, Natalia Makarova, Patricia McBride
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