BAFTA Award for Best Documentary

This page lists the winners for the BAFTA Award for Best Documentary, formerly known as the Robert Flaherty Award, for each year. The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA), is a British organisation that hosts annual awards shows for movie, television, children's movie and television, and interactive media. There was a documentary award between 1948 and 1990. In 2012, the Academy re-introduced this category.^[1]

Award winners

† - means Academy Award winner

Year	Movie
1948	Louisiana Story
1949	Daybreak in Udi †
1950	The Undefeated
1951	Beaver Valley
1952	Royal Journey
1953	The Conquest of Everest
1954	The Great Adventure (Det Stora äventyret)
1955	The Vanishing Prairie †
1956	On the Bowery
1957	Journey Into Spring
1958	Glass (Glas) †
1959	The Savage Eye
1960	Dispute
1961	Volcano (Le Rendezvous du diable)
1962	Four Line Conics
1963	Individual Honour
1964	Nobody Waved Good-bye
1965	Tokyo Olympiad
1966	Goal! The World Cup
1967	To Die in Madrid
1968	In Need of Special Care
1969	Prologue
1970	Sad Song of Yellow Skin
1971	The Hellstrom Chronicle †
1972	Cutting Oils and Fluids
1973	Grierson
1974	Cree Hunters of Mistassini
1975	The Early Americans
1976	The Canadians (Los Canadienses)
1977
1978	The Silent Witness
1979	The Tree of Wooden Clogs
1980
1981	Soldier Girls
1982
1983	Schindler
1984	28 Up
1985	Leonard Bernstein's West Side Story
1986	Shoah
1987	Baka – People of the Rainforest
1988	Death on the Rock
1989	Four Hours in My Lai
2011	Senna