Note: Page in construction. This is a preliminary and non-exhaustive list. Years of production are yet to be confirmed.
1920s
Nanook of the North (Robert J. Flaherty, 1922)
La caída de la dinastía Romanov (E. Shub, 1927)
Berlin: Die Sinfonie der Großstadt (Symphony of a Metropolis, Walter Ruttmann, 1927)
Regen (Rain, 1929)
The Man with a Movie Camera (Человек с киноаппаратом, Dziga Vertov, 1929)
À propos de Nice (Jean Vigo, 1930)
1930s
Las Hurdes, tierra sin pan (Luis Buñuel, 1933)
Borinage (Joris Ivens, 1933)
Man of Aran (Robert Flaherty, 1934)
Triumph des Willens (Triumph of the Will, Leni Riefensthalt, 1935)
Man of Aran, and in 1935 — awarded the Gold Medal in Venice —
Coal Face (Alberto Cavalcanti, 1935)
Night Mail (Harry Watt / Basil Wright, 1936)
Olympia (Leni Riefenstahl, 1936)
The Spanish Earth (Joris Ivens, 1937)
Olympia (Leni Riefenshtahl, 1938)
The 400 Million (Joris Ivens, 1939)
1940s
Why We Fight (Frank Capra, 1942-45)
I Was A Fireman (H. Jennings, 1943)
Jasenovac (Gustav Gavrin, Kosta Hlavaty, 1945)
Farrebique ou Les quatre saisons (Georges Rouquier, 1946)
Le sang des betes (Georges Franju, 1949)
1950s
Afrique 50 (René Vautier, 1950)
Wakefield Express (Lindsay Anderson, 1952)
Les Statues meurent aussi (Alain Resnais and Chris Marker, 1953)
Nuit et Brouillard (Night and Fog, Alain Resnais, 1955)
Momma Don’t Allow (K. Reisz & T. Richardson, 1955)
Toute la memoire du monde (Alain Resnais, 1956)
Nuit et Brouillard (Alain Resnais, 1956)
The Hunters (John Marshall and Robret Gardner, 1957)
Every Day Except Christmas (L. Anderson, 1957)
Du côté de la côte (Agnès Varda, 1958)
We Are the Lambeth Boys (Karel Reisz, 1959)
1960s
Chronique d’un été (Chronicle of a Summer, 1960)
Primary (Robert Drew, 1960)
Mondo Cane (G. Jacopetti, 1963)
…à Valparaíso (Joris Ivens, 1963)
Les Métamorphoses du paysage (Eric Rohmer, 1964)
The War Game (Peter Watkins, 1965)
Bob Dylan: Dont Look Back (D.A. Pennebaker, 1967)
Titicut Follies (Frederick Wiseman, 1967)
La hora de los hornos (Fernando P Solanas, 1968)
The Unemployed (Želimir Žilnik, 1968)
High School (Frederick Wiseman, 1968)
Black Panthers Huey! (Agnes Varda, 1968)
In the Year of the Pig (Emile de Antonio, 1968)
Law & Order (Frederick Wiseman, 1969)
June Turmoil (Želimir Žilnik, 1969)
Le chagrin et la pitié (Marcel Ophüls, 1969)
Salesman (Albert & David Maysles & Charlotte Zwerin, 1969)
Woodstock (Michael Wadleig, 1970)
1970s
Basic Training (Frederick Wiseman, 1971)
A Sense of Loss (Marcel Ophüls, 1972)
Queridísimos verdugos (Basilio Martín Patino, 1973)
Touki-Bouki (Djibril Diop Mambéty, 1973)
Grey Gardens (E. Hovde, D. & A. Maysles & M. Meyer, 1975)
Welfare (Frederick Wiseman, 1975)
Daguerréotypes (Agnès Varda, 1975)
La batalla de Chile I (Patricio Guzmán, 1975-79)
Meat (Frederick Wiseman, 1976)
Ten minutes older (Herz Frank, 1978)
1980s
The Atomic Cafe (J. Loader & K. & P. Rafferty, 1982)
Koyaanisqatsi (Reggio, 1982)
Route One USA (Robert Kramer, 1989)
Cabra marcado para morrer (Eduardo Coutinho, 1984)
Adjustment & Work (Frederick Wiseman, 1986)
Blind (Frederick Wiseman, 1987)
Moskovskaya elegiya (Sokurov, 1987)
The Thin Blue Line (Errol Morris, 1988)
Hôtel Terminus (Marcel Ophüls, 1988)
Cannibal tours (Dennis O’Rourke, 1988)
Histoire(s) du cinéma (Jean-Luc Godard, 1988-1998)
Powaqqatsi (Reggio, 1988)
Roger and me (Michael Moore, 1989)
Central Park (Frederick Wiseman, 1989)
1900s
Innisfree (José Luis Guerin, 1990)
Tongues untied (Marlon Riggs, 1990)
American Dream (Barbara Kopple, 1991)
A Brief History of Time (Errol Morris, 1991)
Intimate Stranger (Alan Berliner, 1991)
Lessons of Darkness (Werner Herzog, 1992)
Belovy (The belovs, Kossakovsky, 1993). — Main award at IDFA 1993. —
Time Indefinite (Ross McElwee, 1993)
Forgotten Silver (Peter Jackson & Costa Botes, 1995)
Délits Flagrants (Raymond Depardon, 1995)
Ballet (Frederick Wiseman, 1995)
La Comédie-Française (Frederick Wiseman, 1996)
Nobody’s Business (Alan Berliner, 1996)
Little Dieter Needs to Fly (Werner Herzog, 1997)
The Big One (Michael Moore, 1997)
Fast, Cheap & Out of Control (McElwee, 1997)
To Sang Fotostudio (Johan van der Keuken, 1997)
Sreda (Viktor Kosakovsky, 1997)
Diálogos con Solzhenitsyn (Sokurov, 1998)
¿Quien Mató a Kurt Cobain? (Broomfield, 1998)
Buena Vista Social Club (Wim Wenders, 1999)
Belfast, Maine (Frederick Wiseman, 1999)
Mr. Death (Errol Morris, 1999)
2000s
Les glaneurs et la glaneuse (The Gleaners and I, Agnès Varda, 2000)
Domestic Violence (Frederick Wiseman, 2001)
Où gît votre sourire enfoui? (Pedro Costa, 2001)
Super 8 Stories (Emir Kusturica, 2001)
Être et Avoir (To Be and to Have, Nicolas Philibert, 2002)
Bowling for Columbine (Michael Moore, 2002)
Onibus 174 (José Padilha & Felipe Lacerda, 2002)
La televisión y yo (Andrés Di Tella, 2002)
Bus 174 (José Padilha, 2002)
Capturing the Friedmans (Andrew Jarecki, 2003)
La historia del camello que llora (2003)
Los Angeles Plays Itself (Thom Andersen, 2003)
The Fog of War (Errol Morris, 2003)
The 3 Rooms of Melancholia (Pirjo Honkasalo, 2003)
The Fog of War (Errol Morris, 2003)
Checkpoint (Yoav Shamir, 2003)
Capturing the Friedmans (Andrew Jarecki, 2003)
Fahrenheit 9/11 (Michael Moore, 2004)
Super Size Me (Morgan Spurlock, 2004)
The sky turns / El cielo gira (Mercedes Álvarez, 2004)
Czech Dream (V. Klusák, F. Remunda 2004)
Route 181:Fragments of a Journey in Palestine…(Michel Khleifi, Eyal Sivan, 2004)
Chats perchés (Chris Marker, 2004)
Born into Brothels (Zana Briski, 2004)
Darwin’s nightmare (Hubert Sauper, 2004) / La pesadilla de Darwin
La Marche de l’empereur (Luc Jacquet, 2005)
Workingman’s Death (Michael Glawogger, 2005)
Into Great Silence (Phillip Gröning, 2005) / El Gran Silencio
Bob Dylan: No direction Home (Martin Scorsese, 2005)
The devil and Daniel Johnston (J. Feuerze, 2005)
Grizzly Man (Werner Herzog, 2005)
An Inconvenient Truth (Davis Guggenheim, 2006)
Blokada (Sergei Loznitsa, 2006)
Jesus Camp (Heidi Ewing, Rachel Grady, 2006)
El sastre (Óscar Pérez, 2007)
Up the Yangtze (Yung Chang, 2007)
Sicko (Michael Moore, 2007)
Waltz With Bashir (Ari Folman, 2008)
Man On Wire (James Marsh, 2008)
48 (Susana de Sousa Dias, 2009)
Capitalism: A Love Story (Michael Moore, 2009)
2010
Exit Through the Gift Shop (Banksy, 2010)
Inside Job (Charles Ferguson, 2010)
Restrepo (Tim Hetherington & Sebastian Junger, 2010)
Mille Soleils (A Thousand Suns, Mati Diop, 2013)