| 2023 | How to Save a Dead Friend (Marusya Syroechkovskaya, Sweden/Norway/France/Germany) |
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| Commendation | Little Palestine, Diary of a Siege (Abdallah Al-Khatib, Lebanon/France/Qatar) |
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| 2021 | A Colombian Family (Tanja Wol Sørensen, Columbia, 2020) | ||
| Commendation | Ayouni (Yasmin Fedda, France/Germany/Iraq/Italy/Lebanon/Syrian Arab Republic/United Kingdom, 2020) | ||
| Special Mention | Survivors (WeOwnTV, Sierra Leone, 2018) | ||
| 2019 | Of Love and Law (Hikaru Toda, Japan/UK, 2017) | ||
| Special Commendation | Abu (Arshad Kahn, Canada, 2017) | ||
| 2017 | Lampedusa in Winter (Jakob Brossmann, Austria/Switzerland/Italy, 2015) | ||
| Special Commendation | Kivalina (Gina Abatemarco, USA, 2016) | ||
| 2015 | Baka: A Cry from the Rainforest (Phil Agland, UK, 2013) |
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| Special Commendations | The Auction House: A Tale of Two Brothers (Ed Owles, UK, 2014) |
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| Kalanda: The Knowledge of the Bush (Lorenzo Ferrarini, UK, 2014) * |
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| 2013 | The Bastard Sings the Sweetest Song (Christy Garland, Canada/Denmark, 2012) * | ||
| Special Commendation | Soldier on the Roof (Esther Hertog, Netherlands, Israel, 2012) | ||
| 2011 | Other Europe (Rosella Schillaci, Italy, 2011) * | ||
| Summer Pasture (Lynn True and Nelson Walker III, China, 2010) | |||
| Birds’ Way (Klara Trencsenyi and Vlad Naumescu, Romania, 2009) | |||
| 2009 | Bury the Hatchet (Aaron Walker, USA, 2009) | ||
| 2007 | Every Good Marriage Begins with Tears (Simon Chambers, UK, 2006) * | ||
| Special Commendations | A Hospice in Amsterdam (Steef PM Meyknecht, Netherlands, 2005) * | ||
| The Agouti’s Peanut (Paturi Paraná, Komoi Paraná, Brasil, 2005) | |||
| 2005 | Koriam's Law and the Dead who Govern (Gary Kildea and Andrea Simon, Australia) * | ||
| Special Commendation | Between Two Villages (Entre deux villages/Entre duas terras) (Muriel Jaquerod and Eduardo Saravia Pereira, Switzerland/Portugal, 2003) * | ||
| 2003 | Duka's Dilemma (Jean Lydall, Germany 2001) * | ||
| Special Commendation | Letter to the Dead (Eytan Kapon, France 2002) * | ||
| 2000 | Divorce Iranian Style (Kim Longinotto and Ziba Mir-Hosseini, UK 1998) * | ||
| 1998 | no prize awarded | ||
| 1996 | Conversations with Dundiwuy Wanambi (Ian Dunlop and Philippa Deveson, Australia 1995/96) * | ||
| 1994 | We are all Neighbours (Debbie Christie and Tone Bringa, DWS, UK 1993) * | ||
| Special Commendation | Survivors of the Rainforest (Andy Jillings, UK, 1993) | ||
| 1992 | Mursi The Land is Bad / Nitha (Leslie Woodhead and David Turton, UK 1990/91) * | ||
| Special Commendation | The Same as You (Alan Jones, UK, NFTS, 1991) | ||
| 1990 | The Women Who Smile (Joanna Head and Jean Lydall, UK) and Les Mémoires de Binduti Da (Michèle Fidloux and Jacques Lombard, France, 1989) | ||
| Special Commendations |
Uksuum Cauyai. The Drums of Winter (Leonard Kamerling and Sarah Elder, USA, 1988) and Djungguwan at Gurka'wuy (Ian Dunlop, Australia, 1990) |
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| 1988 | Baka People of the Rainforest (Phil Agland, UK, 1987) | ||
| Special Commendations | Better than Nick (Andy Jillings, UK, 1987) | ||
| El Sebou (Fadwa El Guindi, USA, 1986) | |||
| 1986 | Two Ways of Justice (Melissa Llewelyn-Davies, UK, 1984) | ||
| 1984 | Celso and Cora (Gary Kildea, Australia, 1983) * | ||
| Special Commendation | The Women's Olamal (Melissa Llewelyn-Davies, UK, 1984) | ||
| 1982 | Waiting for Harry (Kim McKenzie and Les Hiatt, Australia, 1980) * | ||
| The Wedding Camels (David MacDougall and Judith MacDougall, Australia, 1976) * | |||
| * distributed by the RAI | |||