NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Documentary

{{Short description|Winners and Nominees for the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Documentary}}

This article lists the winners and nominees for the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Documentary.

History

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|date=September 2022}}

Winners and nominees

Winners are listed first and highlighted in bold.

=2000s=

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rowspan="6" align="center"| 2008
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| Darfur Now

| rowspan="6" align="center"| {{cite web |url=http://awardsandwinners.com/category/naacp-image-award/2008/ |title=2008 Image Awards|website=Awardsandwinners|access-date=July 31, 2016}}

Bastards of the Party
Desert Bayou
Price of Sugar
Sicko
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| Good Hair

| rowspan="6" align="center"| {{cite web |url=http://awardsandwinners.com/category/naacp-image-award/2009/ |title=2009 Image Awards|website=Awardsandwinners|access-date=July 31, 2016}}

Capitalism: A Love Story
Crips and Bloods: Made in America
Crude
More Than a Game

=2010s=

==Film==

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rowspan="6" align="center"| 2017
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| 13th

| rowspan="6" align="center"| {{cite web |url=https://deadline.com/2017/02/image-awards-winners-list-2017-naacp-1201908928/|title=Image Awards: 'Hidden Figures' Wins Best Picture; 'Black-ish' & 'Queen Sugar' Nab TV Honors – Full List |last= N'Duka |first= Amanda |date=February 11, 2017 |website=Deadline|access-date=February 18, 2017}}

I Am Not Your Negro
Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise
Miss Sharon Jones!
Olympic Pride, American Prejudice
rowspan="6" align="center"| 2018
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| Step

| rowspan="6" align="center" | {{cite web |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lists/2018-naacp-image-award-nominations-complete-list-1057758 |title=NAACP Image Awards: 'Marshall,' 'Get Out,' 'Girls Trip' Dominate Film Nominations |author=THR Staff |date=20 November 2017 |website=The Hollywood Reporter |access-date=28 January 2018}}

I Called Him Morgan
Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Black Colleges and Universities
The Rape of Recy Taylor
Whose Streets?
rowspan="6" align="center" |2019
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|Amazing Grace

| rowspan="5" align="center" |{{Cite web|date=2019-03-31|title=NAACP {{!}} WINNERS OF 50th NAACP IMAGE AWARDS ANNOUNCED DURING LIVE BROADCAST ON TV ONE HOSTED BY ANTHONY ANDERSON|url=https://www.naacp.org/latest/winners-50th-naacp-image-awards-announced-live-broadcast-tv-one-hosted-anthony-anderson/|access-date=2021-02-05|website=NAACP|language=en}}

Making The Five Heartbeats
Quincy
RBG
Whitney

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| Roots: A New Vision

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Major League Legends: Hank Aaron
Policing the Police
Roots: A History Revealed
Streets of Compton
rowspan="6" align="center"| 2018
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| The 44th President: In His Own Words

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Birth of a Movement
Black Love
The Defiant Ones
What the Health
rowspan="6" align="center"| 2019
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| Say Her Name: The Life and Death of Sandra Bland

| rowspan="6" align="center"| {{cite web |last1=Nakamura |first1=Reid |title=NAACP Image Awards 2019: The Complete Winners List |url=https://www.thewrap.com/naacp-image-awards-2019-the-complete-winners-list-updating/ |website=TheWrap |access-date=April 3, 2021 |date=March 31, 2019}}

Hope & Fury: MLK, The Movement and the Media
King in the Wilderness
Shut Up & Dribble
Time for Ilhan

=2020s=

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| Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am

| rowspan="6" align="center"|{{cite web |title=NAACP Winners 2020: The Complete List |url=https://variety.com/2020/film/awards/naacp-winners-list-2020-beyonce-rihanna-1203511871/ |website=Variety |access-date=April 3, 2021 |date=February 23, 2020}}

Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool
The Black Godfather
The Apollo
True Justice: Bryan Stevenson's Fight for Equality
rowspan="6" align="center"| 2021
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| John Lewis: Good Trouble

| rowspan="6" align="center"|{{cite web |title=2021 NAACP Image Awards: The Complete Winners List |url=https://www.etonline.com/2021-naacp-image-awards-winners-list-162717 |website=Entertainment Tonight |access-date=April 3, 2021 |date=March 29, 2021}}

All In: The Fight for Democracy
Coded Bias
Mr. Soul!
On the Record
rowspan="6" align="center"| 2022
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| Barbara Lee: Speaking Truth to Power

| rowspan="6" align="center"|{{cite web |title=53rd NAACP Image Awards: The Complete Winners List |url=https://www.etonline.com/53rd-naacp-image-awards-the-complete-winners-list-179572 |website=Entertainment Tonight |access-date=March 13, 2022 |date=February 26, 2022}}

Attica
My Name Is Pauli Murray
Summer of Soul±
Tina

==Television==

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rowspan="6" align="center"| 2020
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| Hitsville: The Making of Motown

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Free Meek
Homecoming: A Film by Beyoncé
Martin: The Legacy of a King
ReMastered: The Two Killings of Sam Cooke
rowspan="6" align="center"| 2021
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| The Last Dance

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And She Could Be Next
Black Love
Enslaved: The Lost History of the Transatlantic Slave Trade
Unsung
rowspan="6" align="center"| 2022
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| High on the Hog: How African American Cuisine Transformed America

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1971: The Year Music Changed Everything
American Masters: How It Feels to Be True
Blood Brothers: Malcolm X and Muhammad Ali
Insecure Documentary

Footnotes

References

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