Primetime Emmy Award for Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking

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|Death in Gaza

|Sheila Nevins, executive producer; Nancy Abraham, supervising producer; James Miller and Saira Shah, producers

|HBO

|Mark Samels and Nick Fraser, executive producers; Robert Stone, producer

|PBS

|John Hoffman, Sheila Nevins and Jane Bornemeier, executive producers; Bill Couturié, produced by

|HBO

|Steve Carlis, Steve Rosenbaum and Don Baer, executive producers; Peter Gilbert, produced by

|Discovery

|Baghdad ER

|Sheila Nevins, executive producer; Jon Alpert, Matthew O'Neill and Joseph Feury, produced by

|HBO

|Two Days in October (American Experience)

|Sally Jo Fifer, executive producer; Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert, producers; Lois Vossen, series producer

|PBS

|Joe Halderman, produced by; Peter Van Sant, Michael McHugh and Michael Vele, producers

|Showtime

|Nancy Dubuc and Dierdre O'Hearn, executive producers for A&E; Michael Epstein and Jonathan Yellen, produced by

|A&E

|Sally Jo Fifer and Cara Mertes, executive producers; Jessica Yu and Susan West, producers

|PBS

|A Lion in the House (Independent Lens)

|Sally Jo Fifer, executive producer; Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert, producers; Lois Vossen, series producer

|PBS

|When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts

|Sheila Nevins, executive producer; Samuel D. Pollard and Spike Lee, producers; Jacqueline Glover, supervising producer

|HBO

|Mark Samels, executive producer; Stanley Nelson, producer; Sharon Grimberg, series producer

|PBS

|White Light/Black Rain: The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

|Sheila Nevins and Robert Richter, executive producers; Steven Okazaki, producer; Sara Bernstein, supervising producer

|HBO

|Mark Samels, executive producer; Sharon Grimberg, senior producer; Robert Stone, producer

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|Mark Samels, executive producer; Patrick Long and Jamila Wignot, producers; Mark Zwonitzer, filmmaker

|The Alzheimer's Project: "The Memory Loss Tapes"

|Sheila Nevins and Maria Shriver, executive producers; John Hoffman, series producer; Shari Cookson and Nick Doob, produced by

|HBO

|Sheila Nevins, executive producer; Jacqueline Glover, supervising producer; Jon Alpert and Matthew O'Neill, produced by

|HBO

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|The Betrayal – Nerakhoon (POV)

|Simon Kilmurry and Cara Mertes, executive producers; Ellen Kuras and Flora Fernandez-Marengo, produced by

|PBS

|Marc Levin, Mark Benjamin, Forest Whitaker and Mala Chapple, executive producers

|Sundance

|Mark Samels, executive producer; Barak Goodman], producer

|rowspan=2|PBS

|Simon Kilmurry and Steven Sebring, executive producers; Margaret Smilow, executive producer/producer

|Jeff Skoll and Diane Weyermann, executive producers; Jennifer Grausman, producer

|BET

|Sheila Nevins, executive producer; Nancy Abraham, senior producer; Greg Barker, John Battsek and Julie Goldman, produced by

|HBO

|Freedom Riders (American Experience)

|Mark Samels, executive producer; Stanley Nelson and Laurens Grant, produced by; Sharon Grimberg, senior producer

|PBS

|Trish Adlesic, Josh Fox and Molly Gandour, producers

|HBO

|Rick Goldsmith and Judith Ehrlich, producers

|PBS

|Have You Heard from Johannesburg? (Independent Lens)

|Sally Jo Fifer, executive producer; Connie Field, producer; Lois Vossen, series senior producer

|PBS

|Mark Samels, executive producer; Sharon Grimberg, senior producer; Callie T. Wiser and David Belton, producers

|PBS

|Sheila Nevins, executive producer; Joe Berlinger and Jonathan Silberberg, producers; Nancy Abraham, senior producers

|HBO

|Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God

|Sheila Nevins, executive producer; Alex Gibney, Alexandra Johnes, Todd Wider and Jedd Wider, producers; Sara Bernstein, supervising producer

|HBO

|Life According to Sam

|Sheila Nevins, executive producer; Nancy Abraham, senior producer; Sean Fine and Andrea Nix Fine, produced by

|HBO

|Mark Samels, executive producer; Sharon Grimberg, senior producer; Callie T. Wiser, producer

|PBS

|Lati Grobman, executive producer; Cecilia Peck, Inbal B. Lessner and Motty Reif, producers

|Netflix

|Connor Schell, John Dahl and John Battsek, executive producers; Daniel Gordon and Deirdre Fenton, producers

|ESPN

|Citizenfour

|Laura Poitras, Mathilde Bonnefoy and Dirk Wilutzky, produced by

|HBO

|Margaret Brown, Jason Orans and Julie Goldman, produced by; Lois Vossen, senior series producer

|PBS

|Jill Bauer, Ronna Gradus and Rashida Jones, produced by

|Netflix

|Cartel Land

|Kathryn Bigelow, Molly Thompson and Robert DeBitetto, executive producers; Tom Yellin and Matthew Heineman, producers

|A&E

|Jim: The James Foley Story

|Peter Kunhardt, Sheila Nevins and Jacqueline Glover, executive producers; Eva Lipman, George Kunhardt and Teddy Kunhardt, produced by

|HBO

|Sally Jo Fifer and Lois Vossen, executive producers; Stanley Nelson and Laurens Grant, produced by

|PBS

|Amy Entelis, Vinnie Malhotra and Maria Cuomo Cole, executive producers; Amy Ziering, producer

|CNN

|Dieter Paulmann and John Hoffman, executive producers; Olivia Ahnemann and Fisher Stevens, produced by

|Discovery

|Lati Grobman and David Dinerstein, executive producers; Evgeny Afineevsky and Den Tolmor, produced by

|Netflix

| LA 92[https://www.indiewire.com/2017/09/2017-creative-arts-emmys-winners-list-1201874580/ 2017 Creative Arts Emmys Winners List|IndieWire]

| T. J. Martin and Daniel Lindsay, a film by; Jonathan Chinn and Simon Chinn, produced by

| Nat Geo

| Sheila Nevins and Brett Ratner, executive producers; Nancy Abraham, senior producer; Alexis Bloom and Fisher Stevens, produced by

| HBO

| Connor Schell and Libby Geist, executive producers; Tamara Rosenberg and Nina Krstic, producers; Ezra Edelman and Caroline Waterlow, produced by

| ESPN

| Mark Samels, executive producer; Susan Bellows, senior producer; Barak Goodman and Emily Singer Chapman, produced by

| PBS

| Joanna Natasegara, produced by

| Netflix

| Strong Island[https://fieldofvision.org/strong-island Field of Vision - Strong Island]

| Joslyn Barnes and Yance Ford, produced by

| Netflix

| Alex Gibney, Molly Thompson and Stacey Offman, executive producers; Matthew Heineman, produced by

| A&E

| Tim Pastore, executive producer; Brett Morgen, Bryan Burk and James Smith, produced by

| Nat Geo

| Frank Marshall and Matt Tolmach, executive producers; Paige Goldberg Tolmach and Sarah Gibson, producers

| Starz

| RBG

| Julie Cohen and Betsy West, produced by; Amy Entelis and Courtney Sexton, executive producers

| CNN

| The Sentence

| Sam Bisbee and Jackie Kelman Bisbee, produced by; Rudy Valdez and Theodora Dunlap, executive producers

| HBO

| Alexis Bloom and Will Cohen, produced by; Molly Thompson and Alex Gibney, executive producers

| A&E

| RaMell Ross, Joslyn Barnes and Su Kim, produced by; Lois Vossen, executive producer

| PBS

| Becky Read, produced by; Grace Hughes-Hallett, producer

| CNN

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| The Cave

| Kirstine Barfod and Sigrid Dyekjær, produced by; Pernille Rose Grønkjær, Eva Mulvad, Carolyn Berstein, Ryan Harrington and Matt Renner, executive producers

| Nat Geo

| Robert Stone, produced by; Ray Rothrock, Daniel Aegerter and Keith Haviland, producers; Susan Bellows, senior producer; Mark Samels, executive producer

| PBS

| Tahria Sheather and Irene Taylor Brodsky, produced by; Nancy Abraham, Lisa Heller, Sheila Nevins and Sara Bernstein, executive producers

| HBO

| Nanfu Wang, Jialing Zhang, Julie Goldman, Christopher Clements and Carolyn Hepburn, produced by; Sally Jo Fifer and Lois Vossen, executive producers

| PBS

| 76 Days

| Hao Wu and Jean Tsien, produced by

| Pluto TV

| Katy Chevigny and Marilyn Ness, producers; Kirsten Johnson, produced by

| Netflix

| Alice Henty, David France, Joy A. Tomchin, Askold Kurov and Igor Myakotin, produced by

| HBO

| When Claude Got Shot

| Lois Vossen, executive producer; Brad Lichtenstein, Steven Cantor and Jamie Schutz, producers

| PBS

| Clare Tucker and Alex Schmider, produced by

| Hulu

| Henry Louis Gates Jr., Dyllan McGee, Nancy Abraham, Lisa Heller and Sara Rodriguez, executive producers; Oluwaseun Babalola, producer

| HBO

| The Territory[https://deadline.com/2024/01/creative-arts-emmys-the-territory-exceptional-merit-in-documentary-filmmaking-award-1235698731/ NatGeo’s ‘The Territory’, About Indigenous Brazilian Group’s Daring Fight To Protect Their Land, Wins Emmy For Exceptional Merit|Deadline]

| Alex Pritz, Darren Aronofsky, Sigrid Dyekjær, Will N. Miller, Gabriel Uchida and Lizzie Gillett, produced by; Txai Suruí, executive producer

| Nat Geo

| Mohammed Ali Naqvi, produced by/directed by

| PBS

| Paula Eiselt and Tonya Lewis Lee, a film by

| Hulu

| Ondi Timoner and David Turner, produced by

| Paramount+

| Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project[https://awardswatch.com/2024-creative-arts-emmys-winners-night-one-updating-live/ AwardsWatch - 2024 Creative Arts Emmys Winners (Night One) - Updating Live]

| Joe Brewster, Michèle Stephenson and Tommy Oliver, produced by

| HBO

| Lois Vossen, executive producer; Jana Edelbaum, Rachel Cohen and Sue Mi Terry, producers; Madeleine Gavin, director

| PBS

| Dr. Ibram X. Kendi, Geoff Martz, Mara Brock Akil and Susie Fitzgerald, executive producers; Alisa Payne, Roger Ross Williams and David Teague, producers

| Netflix