Dokumenter Terbaik (Penghargaan Film Independen Gotham)

Pemenang dan nominasi

2000-an

Tahun	Film	Sutradara	Ref.
2004	The Agronomist	Jonathan Demme
	Bright Leaves	Ross McElwee
	Fahrenheit 9/11	Michael Moore
	In the Realms of the Unreal	Jessica Yu
	Tarnation	Jonathan Caouette
2005	Murderball	Henry Alex Rubin dan Dana Adam Shapiro
	Ballets Russes	Dayna Goldfine dan Dan Geller
	Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room	Alex Gibney
	Grizzly Man	Werner Herzog
	William Eggleston in the Real World	Michael Almereyda
2006	Iraq in Fragments	James Longley
	Deliver Us from Evil	Amy J. Berg
	Following Sean	Ralph Arlyck
	An Inconvenient Truth	Davis Guggenheim
	Jonestown: The Life dan Death of Peoples Temple	Stanley Nelson
2007	Sicko	Michael Moore
	The Devil Came on Horseback	Ricki Stern dan Anne Sundberg
	Man from Plains	Jonathan Demme
	My Kid Could Paint That	Amir Bar-Lev
	Taxi to the Dark Side	Alex Gibney
2008	Trouble the Water	Tia Lessin dan Carl Deal
	Chris & Don. A Love Story	Guido Santi dan Tina Mascara
	Encounters at the End of the World	Werner Herzog
	Man on Wire	James Marsh
	Roman Polanski: Wanted dan Desired	Marina Zenovich
2009	Food, Inc.	Robert Kenner
	Good Hair	Jeff Stilson
	My Neighbor, My Killer	Anne Aghion
	Paradise	Michael Almereyda
	Tyson	James Toback

2010-an

Tahun	Film	Sutradara	Ref.
2010	The Oath	Laura Poitras
	12th & Delaware	Rachel Grady dan Heidi Ewing
	Inside Job	Charles Ferguson
	Public Speaking	Martin Scorsese
	Sweetgrass	Lucien Castaing-Taylor
2011	Better This World	Kelly Duane dan Katie Galloway
	Bill Cunningham New York	Richard Press
	Hell dan Back Again	Danfung Dennis
	The Interrupters	Steve James
	The Woodmans	Scott Willis
2012	How to Survive a Plague	David France
	Detropia	Rachel Grady dan Heidi Ewing
	Marina Abramovic: The Artist is Present	Matthew Akers dan Jeff Dupre
	Room 237	Rodney Ascher
	The Waiting Room	Peter Nicks
2013	The Act of Killing	Joshua Oppenheimer
	The Crash Reel	Lucy Walker
	First Cousin Once Removed	Alan Berliner
	Let the Fire Burn	Jason Osder
	Our Nixon	Penny Lane
2014	Citizenfour	Laura Poitras
	Actress	Robert Greene
	Life Itself	Steve James
	Manakamana	Stephanie Spray dan Pacho Velez
	Point dan Shoot	Marshall Curry
2015	The Look of Silence	Joshua Oppenheimer
	Approaching the Elephant	Amanda Wilder
	Cartel Land	Matthew Heineman
	Heart of a Dog	Laurie Anderson
	Listen to Me Marlon	Stevan Riley
2016	O.J.: Made in America	Ezra Edelman
	Cameraperson	Kirsten Johnson
	I Am Not Your Negro	Raoul Peck
	Tower	Keith Maitland
	Weiner	Josh Kriegman dan Elyse Steinberg
2017	Strong Island	Yance Ford
	Ex Libris: The New York Public Library	Frederick Wiseman
	Rat Film	Theo Anthony
	Whose Streets?	Sabaah Folayan dan Damon Davis
	The Work	Jairus McLeary dan Gethin Aldous
2018	Hale County This Morning, This Evening	RaMell Ross
	Bisbee '17	Robert Greene
	Minding the Gap	Bing Liu
	Shirkers	Sandi Tan
	Won't You Be My Neighbor?	Morgan Neville
2019	American Factory	Steven Bognar dan Julia Reichert
	Apollo 11	Todd Douglas Miller
	The Edge of Democracy	Petra Costa
	Midnight Traveler	Hassan Fazili
	One Child Nation	Nanfu Wang dan Jialing Zhang

2020-an

Tahun	Film	Sutradara	Ref.
2020	76 Days	Hao Wu, Weixi Chen dan Anonymous
	City Hall	Frederick Wiseman
	Our Time Machine	Yang Sun dan S. Leo Chiang
	A Thousand Cuts	Ramona Diaz
	Time	Garrett Bradley