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Oscar Winning Documentaries

Academy Award Winning Documentaries from 2006 to 1980

By Jennifer Merin, About.com

Guggenheim and Gore, "An Inconvenient Truth," 2006

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If you haven't seen all Oscar winning documentary films, work your way down this list of golden statuette recipients. Most of these films are available on DVD or VHS. By the time you reach the end of the list, you'll most likely be a documentary film devotee. And, with good reason.

2000s

2006 An Inconvenient Truth (Davis Guggenheim)

2005 March of the Penguins (Luc Jacquet)

2004 Born Into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kids (Ross Kauffman; Zana Briski)

2003 The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara (Errol Morris)

2002 Bowling for Columbine (Michael Moore)

2001 Murder on a Sunday Morning (Jean-Xavier de Lestrade)

2000 Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport (Mark Jonathan Harris; Deborah Oppenheimer)

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