Year | Film | Director | Ref |
2010 |
Without Bias | Kirk Fraser | [1] |
Herskovits at the Heart of Blackness | Llewellyn M. Smith |
Still Bill | Damani Baker and Alex Vlack |
2011 |
For the Best and for the Onion | Sani Elhadj Magori | [2] |
Gefilte Fish | Shelly Kling |
One of These Mornings | Valery Lyman |
2012 |
Infiltrating Hollywood: The Rise and Fall of the Spook Who Sat By the Door | Christine Acham and Clifford Ward | [3] |
Brown Babies | Regina Griffin |
Burn: The Evolution of An American City | Harold Jackson III |
Gang Girl: A Mother's Journey to Save Her Daughter | Valerie Goodloe |
The Manuscripts of Timbuktu | Zola Maseko |
Zero Percent | Tim Skousen |
2013 |
Soul Food Junkies | Byron Hurt | [4] |
BMF: The Rise and Fall of Hip-Hop Drug Empire | Dan Sikorski |
Contradictions of Fair Hope | S. Epatha Merkerson and Rockell Metcalf |
From Fatherless to Fatherhood | Kobie Brown |
Justice for Sale | Femeke and Isla van Velzen |
2014 |
The New Black | Yoruba Richen | [5] |
Africa: The Beat | Javier Arias Bal, Polo Vallejo and Manuel Velasco |
I Want My Name Back | Roger Paradiso |
Lenny Cooke | Benny and Joshua Safdie |
Unheard: Black Women in Civil Rights | Nev Nnaji |
2015 |
25 to Life | Mike Brown | [6] |
Evolution of a Criminal | Darius Clark Monroe |
Oscar Micheaux: The Czar of Black Hollywood | Bayer Mack |
Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People | Thomas Allen Harris |
2016 |
Mary Lou Williams: The Lady Who Swings the Band | Carol Bush | [7] |
Adina Howard 20: A Story of Sexual Liberation | Gezus Zaire |
Be Known | Dwayne Johnson-Cochran |
Cody High: A Life Remodeled Project | Walter V. Marshall |
Romeo is Bleeding | Jason Zeldes |
2017 | — |
2018 |
Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Black Colleges and Universities | Stanley Nelson Jr. | [8] |
Back to Natural: A Documentary Film | Gillian Scott-Ward |
Quest | Jonathan Olshefski |
Yemanja: Wisdom From the African Heart of Brazil | Donna Roberts & Donna Reed |
Zo! Making of Skybreak! | Donnie Seales Jr. |
2019 |
Sammy Davis Jr.: I've Gotta Be Me | Sam Pollard | [9] |
Basquiat: Rage to Riches | David Schulman |
Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart | Tracey Heather Strain |