| Year
|
Film
|
Director
|
Ref
|
| 2010
|
| Without Bias
|
Kirk Fraser
|
[1]
|
| Herskovits at the Heart of Blackness
|
Llewellyn M. Smith
|
| Still Bill
|
Damani Baker and Alex Vlack
|
| 2011
|
| For the Best and for the Onion
|
Sani Elhadj Magori
|
[2]
|
| Gefilte Fish
|
Shelly Kling
|
| One of These Mornings
|
Valery Lyman
|
| 2012
|
| Infiltrating Hollywood: The Rise and Fall of the Spook Who Sat By the Door
|
Christine Acham and Clifford Ward
|
[3]
|
| Brown Babies
|
Regina Griffin
|
| Burn: The Evolution of An American City
|
Harold Jackson III
|
| Gang Girl: A Mother's Journey to Save Her Daughter
|
Valerie Goodloe
|
| The Manuscripts of Timbuktu
|
Zola Maseko
|
| Zero Percent
|
Tim Skousen
|
| 2013
|
| Soul Food Junkies
|
Byron Hurt
|
[4]
|
| BMF: The Rise and Fall of Hip-Hop Drug Empire
|
Dan Sikorski
|
| Contradictions of Fair Hope
|
S. Epatha Merkerson and Rockell Metcalf
|
| From Fatherless to Fatherhood
|
Kobie Brown
|
| Justice for Sale
|
Femeke and Isla van Velzen
|
| 2014
|
| The New Black
|
Yoruba Richen
|
[5]
|
| Africa: The Beat
|
Javier Arias Bal, Polo Vallejo and Manuel Velasco
|
| I Want My Name Back
|
Roger Paradiso
|
| Lenny Cooke
|
Benny and Joshua Safdie
|
| Unheard: Black Women in Civil Rights
|
Nev Nnaji
|
| 2015
|
| 25 to Life
|
Mike Brown
|
[6]
|
| Evolution of a Criminal
|
Darius Clark Monroe
|
| Oscar Micheaux: The Czar of Black Hollywood
|
Bayer Mack
|
| Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People
|
Thomas Allen Harris
|
| 2016
|
| Mary Lou Williams: The Lady Who Swings the Band
|
Carol Bush
|
[7]
|
| Adina Howard 20: A Story of Sexual Liberation
|
Gezus Zaire
|
| Be Known
|
Dwayne Johnson-Cochran
|
| Cody High: A Life Remodeled Project
|
Walter V. Marshall
|
| Romeo is Bleeding
|
Jason Zeldes
|
| 2017
|
—
|
| 2018
|
| Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Black Colleges and Universities
|
Stanley Nelson Jr.
|
[8]
|
| Back to Natural: A Documentary Film
|
Gillian Scott-Ward
|
| Quest
|
Jonathan Olshefski
|
| Yemanja: Wisdom From the African Heart of Brazil
|
Donna Roberts & Donna Reed
|
| Zo! Making of Skybreak!
|
Donnie Seales Jr.
|
| 2019
|
| Sammy Davis Jr.: I've Gotta Be Me
|
Sam Pollard
|
[9]
|
| Basquiat: Rage to Riches
|
David Schulman
|
| Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart
|
Tracey Heather Strain
|