| Year
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Finalists
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| 2007
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Body & Soul: Diana & Kathy, If It Happens, Ochberg's Orphans, Portraits of a Lady[2]
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| 2008
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David McCullough: Painting With Words, Downstream, Tongzhi in Love, Viva La Causa [3]
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| 2009
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Lt. Watada, Tell Them Anything You Want: A Portrait of Maurice Sendak, Woman Rebel[4][5]
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| 2010
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Born Sweet, Living for 32, One Thousand Pictures: RFK’s Last Journey[6]
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| 2011
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In Tahrir Square: 18 Days of Egypt’s Unfinished Revolution, Pipe Dreams, Witness[7]
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| 2012
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The Education of Mohammad Hussein, ParaÍso, The Perfect Fit[8]
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| 2013
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Jujitsu-ing Reality, Recollections, SLOMO[9]
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| 2014
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Kehinde Wiley: An Economy of Grace, The Lion's Mouth Opens, One Child[10]
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| 2015
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50 Feet from Syria, Minerita, ’My Enemy, My Brother, Starting Point, The Testimony[11]
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| 2016
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Brillo Box (3 ¢ Off), Close Ties, ’Frame 394, The Mute's House, The Other Side of Home[12]
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| 2017
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Alone, Kayayo – The Living Shopping Baskets, ’116 Cameras, Ram Dass, Going Home, Ten Meter Tower[13]
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| 2018
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Los Comandos, My Dead Dad's Porno Tapes, ’63 Boycott, Women of the Gulag, Zion[14]
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| 2019
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After Maria, Ghosts of Sugar Land, Fire in Paradise, The Nightcrawlers, Stay Close[15]
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| 2020
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Abortion Helpline, This Is Lisa; Call Center Blues; Hysterical Girl; The Speed Cubers; What Would Sophia Loren Do?[16]
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| 2021
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Águilas, A Broken House, Camp Confidential: America's Secret Nazis, Coded: The Hidden Love of J.C. Leyendecker, Day of Rage: How Trump Supporters Took the U.S. Capitol, The Facility, Lynching Postcards: Token of a Great Day, Sophie & the Baron, Takeover, Terror Contagion[17]
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| 2022
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American Justice on Trial: People v. Newton, Anastasia, Angola Do You Hear Us? Voices from a Plantation Prison, As Far as They Can Run, The Flagmakers, Happiness Is £4 Million, Holding Moses, Nuisance Bear, Shut Up and Paint, 38 at the Garden[18]
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| 2023
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Bear, Between Earth & Sky, Black Girls Play: The Story of Hand Games, Camp Courage, Deciding Vote, How We Get Free, If Dreams Were Lightning: Rural Healthcare Crisis, Last Song from Kabul, Oasis, Wings of Dust[19]
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