Complete list of Academy Award winners for Best Documentary Film

On Thursday, I gave you Outside Magazine’s Best Documentary List, which was featured in Outside’s September issue and included 25 great documentary films.

A few of those movies have won Academy Awards for Best Documentary Feature, which got me to wondering about what other movies have received an Oscar for Best Documentary Feature.

I researched the subject, and tonight, I give you a complete list of all of the documentary films that have received Oscar awards since the awards for Best Documentary Feature was given in 1942. Without further ado, here’s the list:

2009 – The Cove
2008 – Man on Wire
2007 – Taxi to the Dark Side
2006 – An Inconvenient Truth
2005 – March of the Penguines
2004 – Born into Brothels
2003 – The Fog of War
2002 – Bowling for Columbine
2001 – Murder on a Sunday Morning
2000 – Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport

1999 – One Day in September
1998 – The Last Days
1997 – The Long Way Home
1996 – When We Were Kings
1995 – Anne Frank Remembered
1994 – Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision
1993 – I Am a Promise: The Children of Stanton Elementary School
1992 – The Panama Deception
1991 – In the Shadow of the Stars
1990 – American Dream

1989 – Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt
1988 – Hotel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie
1987 – The Ten-Year Lunch
1986 (tie) – Artie Show: Time Is All You’ve Got and Down and Out in America
1985 – Broken Rainbow
1984 – The Times of Harvey Milk
1983 – He Makes Me Feel Like Dancin’
1982 – Just Another Missing Kid
1981 – Genocide
1980 – From Mao to Mozart: Isaac Stern in China

1979 – Best Boy
1978 – Scared Straight!
1977 – Who Are the DeBolts? And Where Did They Get Nineteen Kids?
1976 – Harlan County, USA
1975 – The Man Who Skied Down Everest
1974 – Hearts and Minds
1973 – The Great American Cowboy
1972 – Marjoe
1971 – The Hellstrom Chronicle
1970 - Woodstock

1969 – Arthur Rubinstein – The Love of Life
1968 – Journey into Self and Young Americans
1967 – The Anderson Platoon
1966 – The War Game
1965 – The Eleanor Roosevelt Story
1964 – World Without Sun
1963 – Robert Frost: A Lover’s Quarrel with the World
1962 – Black Fox: The Rise and Fall of Adolf Hitler
1961 – Sky Above and Mud Beneath
1960 – The Horse with the Flying Tail

1959 – Sereneti Shall Not Die
1958 – White Wilderness
1957 – Albert Schweitzer
1956 – The Silent World
1955 – Helen Keller in Her Story
1954 – The Vanishing Prairie
1953 – The Living Desert
1952 – The Sea Around Us
1951 – Kon-Tiki
1950 – The Titan: Story of Michelangelo

1949 – Daybreak in Udi
1948 – The Secret Land
1947 – Design for Death
1946 – No Award Given
1945 – The True Glory
1944 – The Fighting Lady
1943 – Desert Victory
1942 (four winners) - The Battle of Midway, Kokoda Front Line!, Moscow Strikes Back and Prelude to War.

In the end, how many of these movies have you had a chance to watch? What did you think of them? Which would you recommend? Let us know in the comments section below.