Grand Jury Prize Documentary

This is the list of the winners of the Sundance Grand Jury Prize for documentary features since its first inception in 1982.^[1]

Winners

1980s

• 1982: Soldier Girls^[2]
• 1984: Style Wars^[3][4][5]
• 1985: Seventeen^[6][7]
• 1986: Private Conversations^[8]
• 1987: Sherman's March^[9][10]
• 1988: Beirut: The Last Home Movie^[11]
• 1989: For All Mankind^[12]

1990s

• 1990: H-2 Worker/Water and Power^[13]
• 1991: American Dream/Paris Is Burning^[14][15]
• 1992: A Brief History of Time/Finding Christa^[16]
• 1993: Children of Fate: Life and Death in a Sicilian Family/Silverlake Life: The View from Here^[17]
• 1994: Freedom on My Mind^[18]
• 1995: Crumb^[19][20]
• 1996: Troublesome Creek: A Midwestern^[21][22]
• 1997: Girls Like Us^[23]
• 1998: The Farm: Angola, USA/Frat House^[24]
• 1999: American Movie^[25]

2000s

• 2000: Long Night's Journey into Day^[26]
• 2001: Southern Comfort^[27]
• 2002: Daughter from Danang^[28]
• 2003: Capturing the Friedmans^[29]
• 2004: Dig!^[30]
• 2005: Why We Fight^[31]
• 2006: God Grew Tired of Us
• 2007: Manda Bala (Send a Bullet)
• 2008: Trouble the Water
• 2009: We Live in Public

2010s

• 2010: Restrepo^[32]
• 2011: How to Die in Oregon
• 2012: The House I Live In^[33]
• 2013: Blood Brother
• 2014: Rich Hill
• 2015: The Wolfpack
• 2016: Weiner
• 2017: Dina
• 2018: The Price of Free
• 2019: One Child Nation

2020s

• 2020: Boys State^[34][35]
• 2021: Summer of Soul^[36][37]
• 2022: The Exiles
• 2023: Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project^[38][39]
• 2024: Porcelain War^[40]
• 2025: Seeds^[41]

International winners

• 2023: The Eternal Memory
• 2024: A New Kind of Wilderness
• 2025: Cutting Through Rocks