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Academy Award winners for Best Documentary Feature Film since 2000.

Updated September 29, 2022

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Into the arms of strangers stories of the Kindertransport

Oppenheimer, Deborah.

DVD

Academy Award-winning documentary chronicling the mass exodus of Jewish children from pre-World War II Germany into neutral countries, where they were adopted by new families. Narrated by Dame Judi Dench.

Bowling for Columbine [2002 film]

Michael Moore

DVD

Documentary filmmaker Michael Moore takes aim at America's love affair with guns and violence. Featuring interviews with everyone from the NRA's Charlton Heston to shock-rocker Marilyn Manson. Winner of the 55th Anniversary Prize at Cannes Film Festival.

The fog of war eleven lessons from the life of Robert S. McNamara

Morris, Errol.

DVD

Former Secretary of Defense, under President Kennedy and President Johnson, Robert S. McNamara was one of the most controversial and influential political figures of the 20th century. Now - for the first time ever - he sits down one on one with award-winning director Errol Morris (The Thin Blue Line...

March of the penguins

Jacquet, Luc.

DVD

Emperor penguins overcome daunting obstacles in order to return to their breeding grounds for mating season. This tells the story of one year in the life of a flock -- focusing on one couple in particular -- as they trek across the Antarctic on an annual journey that invokes just about every major...

An inconvenient truth : [the planetary emergency of global warming and what we can do about it]

Gore, Al

Digital file

Grammy Award Nominee for Best Spoken Word Album The climate crisis may at times appear to be happening slowly, but in fact it is happening very quickly -- and has become a true planetary emergency. The Chinese expression for crisis consists of two characters. The first is a symbol for...