| Year
|
Film
|
Name(s)
|
1990
(63rd)
|
| American Dream
|
Barbara Kopple and Arthur Cohn
|
| Berkeley in the Sixties
|
Mark Kitchell
|
| Building Bombs
|
Mark Mori and Susan Robinson
|
| Forever Activists: Stories from the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade
|
Judith Montell
|
| Waldo Salt: A Screenwriter's Journey
|
Robert Hillmann and Eugene Corr
|
1991
(64th)
|
| In the Shadow of the Stars
|
Allie Light and Irving Saraf
|
| Death on the Job
|
Vince DiPersio and William Guttentag
|
| Doing Time: Life Inside the Big House
|
Alan Raymond and Susan Raymond
|
| The Restless Conscience: Resistance to Hitler Within Germany 1933-1945
|
Hava Kohav Beller
|
| Wild by Law
|
Lawrence Hott and Diane Garey
|
1992
(65th)
|
| The Panama Deception
|
Barbara Trent and David Kasper
|
| Changing Our Minds: The Story of Dr. Evelyn Hooker
|
David Haugland
|
| Fires of Kuwait
|
Sally Dundas
|
| Liberators: Fighting on Two Fronts in World War II
|
Bill Miles and Nina Rosenblum
|
| Music for the Movies: Bernard Herrmann
|
Margaret Smilow and Roma Baran
|
1993
(66th)
|
| I Am a Promise: The Children of Stanton Elementary School
|
Susan Raymond and Alan Raymond
|
| The Broadcast Tapes of Dr. Peter
|
David Paperny and Arthur Ginsberg
|
| Children of Fate
|
Susan Todd and Andrew Young
|
| For Better or For Worse
|
David Collier and Betsy Thompson
|
| The War Room
|
D. A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus
|
1994
(67th)
|
| Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision
|
Freida Lee Mock
|
| Complaints of a Dutiful Daughter
|
Deborah Hoffmann
|
| D-Day Remembered
|
Charles Guggenheim
|
| Freedom on My Mind
|
Connie Field and Marilyn Mulford
|
| A Great Day in Harlem
|
Jean Bach
|
1995
(68th)
|
| Anne Frank Remembered
|
Jon Blair
|
| The Battle Over Citizen Kane
|
Thomas Lennon and Michael Epstein
|
| Fiddlefest: Roberta Tzavaras and Her East Harlem Violin Program
|
Allan Miller and Walter Scheuer
|
| Hank Aaron: Chasing the Dream
|
Mike Tollin and Fredric Golding
|
| Troublesome Creek: A Midwestern
|
Jeanne Jordan and Steven Ascher
|
1996
(69th)
|
| When We Were Kings
|
Leon Gast and David Sonenberg
|
| The Line King: The Al Hirschfeld Story
|
Susan W. Dryfoos
|
| Mandela
|
Jo Menell and Angus Gibson
|
| Suzanne Farrell: Elusive Muse
|
Anne Belle and Deborah Dickson
|
| Tell the Truth and Run: George Seldes and the American Press
|
Rick Goldsmith
|
1997
(70th)
|
| The Long Way Home
|
Marvin Hier and Richard Trank
|
| Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life
|
Michael Paxton
|
| Colors Straight Up
|
Michèle Ohayon and Julia Schachter
|
| 4 Little Girls
|
Spike Lee and Sam Pollard
|
| Waco: The Rules of Engagement
|
Dan Gifford and William Gazecki
|
1998
(71st)
|
| The Last Days
|
James Moll and Ken Lipper
|
| Dancemaker
|
Matthew Diamond and Jerry Kupfer
|
| The Farm: Angola, U.S.A.
|
Jonathan Stack and Liz Garbus
|
| Lenny Bruce: Swear to Tell the Truth
|
Robert B. Weide
|
| Regret to Inform
|
Barbara Sonneborn and Janet Cole
|
1999
(72nd)
|
| One Day in September
|
Arthur Cohn and Kevin Macdonald
|
| Buena Vista Social Club
|
Wim Wenders and Ulrich Felsberg
|
| Genghis Blues
|
Roko Belic and Adrian Belic
|
| On the Ropes
|
Nanette Burstein and Brett Morgen
|
| Speaking in Strings
|
Paola di Florio and Lilibet Foster
|
