This article lists the winners and nominees for the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Documentary.
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 are listed first and highlighted in bold.
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |