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NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Documentary

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This article lists the winners and nominees for the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Documentary.

History

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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.[citation needed]

Winners and nominees

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Winners are listed first and highlighted in bold.

2000s

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Year Documentary Ref
2008
Darfur Now [1]
Bastards of the Party
Desert Bayou
Price of Sugar
Sicko
2009
Good Hair [2]
Capitalism: A Love Story
Crips and Bloods: Made in America
Crude
More Than a Game

2010s

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Film

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Year Documentary Ref
2017
13th [3]
I Am Not Your Negro
Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise
Miss Sharon Jones!
Olympic Pride, American Prejudice
2018
Step [4]
I Called Him Morgan
Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Black Colleges and Universities
The Rape of Recy Taylor
Whose Streets?
2019
Amazing Grace [5]
Making The Five Heartbeats
Quincy
RBG
Whitney

Television

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Year Documentary Ref
2017
Roots: A New Vision [3]
Major League Legends: Hank Aaron
Policing the Police
Roots: A History Revealed
Streets of Compton
2018
The 44th President: In His Own Words [4]
Birth of a Movement
Black Love
The Defiant Ones
What the Health
2019
Say Her Name: The Life and Death of Sandra Bland [6]
Hope & Fury: MLK, The Movement and the Media
King in the Wilderness
Shut Up & Dribble
Time for Ilhan

2020s

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Film

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Year Documentary Ref
2020
Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am [7]
Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool
The Black Godfather
The Apollo
True Justice: Bryan Stevenson's Fight for Equality
2021
John Lewis: Good Trouble [8]
All In: The Fight for Democracy
Coded Bias
Mr. Soul!
On the Record
2022
Barbara Lee: Speaking Truth to Power [9]
Attica
My Name Is Pauli Murray
Summer of Soul±
Tina

Television

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Year Documentary Ref
2020
Hitsville: The Making of Motown [7]
Free Meek
Homecoming: A Film by Beyoncé
Martin: The Legacy of a King
ReMastered: The Two Killings of Sam Cooke
2021
The Last Dance [8]
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 [9]
1971: The Year Music Changed Everything
American Masters: How It Feels to Be True
Blood Brothers: Malcolm X and Muhammad Ali
Insecure Documentary

Footnotes

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References

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  1. ^ "2008 Image Awards". Awardsandwinners. Retrieved July 31, 2016.
  2. ^ "2009 Image Awards". Awardsandwinners. Retrieved July 31, 2016.
  3. ^ a b N'Duka, Amanda (February 11, 2017). "Image Awards: 'Hidden Figures' Wins Best Picture; 'Black-ish' & 'Queen Sugar' Nab TV Honors – Full List". Deadline. Retrieved February 18, 2017.
  4. ^ a b THR Staff (20 November 2017). "NAACP Image Awards: 'Marshall,' 'Get Out,' 'Girls Trip' Dominate Film Nominations". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 28 January 2018.
  5. ^ "NAACP | WINNERS OF 50th NAACP IMAGE AWARDS ANNOUNCED DURING LIVE BROADCAST ON TV ONE HOSTED BY ANTHONY ANDERSON". NAACP. 2019-03-31. Retrieved 2021-02-05.
  6. ^ Nakamura, Reid (March 31, 2019). "NAACP Image Awards 2019: The Complete Winners List". TheWrap. Retrieved April 3, 2021.
  7. ^ a b "NAACP Winners 2020: The Complete List". Variety. February 23, 2020. Retrieved April 3, 2021.
  8. ^ a b "2021 NAACP Image Awards: The Complete Winners List". Entertainment Tonight. March 29, 2021. Retrieved April 3, 2021.
  9. ^ a b "53rd NAACP Image Awards: The Complete Winners List". Entertainment Tonight. February 26, 2022. Retrieved March 13, 2022.