Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature on Blu-ray

[Spootnek]

Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature on Blu-ray
(or DVD but most likely nothing!)

1940s

The Battle Of Midway (1942) No Blu-ray or DVD listed on this site
Kokoda Front Line! (1942) No Blu-ray or DVD listed on this site
Moscow Strikes Back (1942) No Blu-ray or DVD listed on this site
Prelude To War (1942) DVD
Desert Victory (1943) No Blu-ray or DVD listed on this site
The Fighting Lady (1944) DVD
The True Glory (1945) DVD
Design For Death (1947) No Blu-ray or DVD listed on this site
The Secret Land (1948) No Blu-ray or DVD listed on this site
Daybreak In Udi (1949) No Blu-ray or DVD listed on this site


1950s

The Titan: Story Of Michelangelo (1950) No Blu-ray or DVD listed on this site
Kon-Tiki (1951) No Blu-ray or DVD listed on this site
The Sea Around Us (1952) DVD
The Living Desert (1953) DVD
The Vanishing Prairie (1954) DVD
Helen Keller In Her Story (1955) No Blu-ray or DVD listed on this site
The Silent World (1956) No Blu-ray or DVD listed on this site
Albert Schweitzer (1957) No Blu-ray or DVD listed on this site
White Wilderness (1958) DVD
Serengeti Shall Not Die (1959) No Blu-ray or DVD listed on this site


1960s

The Horse With The Flying Tail (1960) DVD
Sky Above And Mud Beneath (1961) No Blu-ray or DVD listed on this site
Black Fox: The Rise And Fall Of Adolf Hitler (1962) DVD
Robert Frost: A Lover's Quarrel With The World (1963) No Blu-ray or DVD listed on this site
World Without Sun (1964) No Blu-ray or DVD listed on this site
The Eleanor Roosevelt Story (1965) No Blu-ray or DVD listed on this site
The War Game (1966) DVD
The Anderson Platoon (1967) No Blu-ray or DVD listed on this site
Journey Into Self (1968) No Blu-ray or DVD listed on this site
Arthur Rubinstein – The Love Of Life (1969) No Blu-ray or DVD listed on this site


1970s

Woodstock (1970)
The Hellstrom Chronicle (1971)
Marjoe (1972) DVD
The Great American Cowboy (1973) No Blu-ray or DVD listed on this site
Hearts And Minds (1974)
The Man Who Skied Down Everest (1975)
Harlan County, USA (1976) DVD
Who Are The DeBolts? And Where Did They Get Nineteen Kids? (1977) DVD
Scared Straight! (1978) DVD
Best Boy (1979) No Blu-ray or DVD listed on this site



1980s

From Mao To Mozart: Isaac Stern In China (1980) No Blu-ray or DVD listed on this site
Genocide (1981) DVD
Just Another Missing Kid (1982) No Blu-ray or DVD listed on this site
He Makes Me Feel Like Dancin' (1983) No Blu-ray or DVD listed on this site
The Times Of Harvey Milk (1984)
Broken Rainbow (1985) No Blu-ray or DVD listed on this site
Artie Shaw: Time Is All You've Got (1986) No Blu-ray or DVD listed on this site
Down And Out In America (1986) No Blu-ray or DVD listed on this site
The Ten-Year Lunch (1987) No Blu-ray or DVD listed on this site
Hôtel Terminus: The Life And Times Of Klaus Barbie (1988) DVD
Common Threads: Stories From The Quilt (1989) DVD


1990s

American Dream (1990) No Blu-ray or DVD listed on this site
In The Shadow Of The Stars (1991) No Blu-ray or DVD listed on this site
The Panama Deception (1992) No Blu-ray or DVD listed on this site
I Am A Promise: The Children Of Stanton Elementary School (1993) DVD?
Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision (1994) No Blu-ray or DVD listed on this site
Anne Frank Remembered (1995)
When We Were Kings (1996)
The Long Way Home (1997) No Blu-ray or DVD listed on this site
The Last Days (1998) DVD
One Day In September (1999) DVD


2000s

Into The Arms Of Strangers: Stories Of The Kindertransport (2000) No Blu-ray or Region 1 DVD listed on this site
Murder On A Sunday Morning (2001) No Blu-ray or DVD listed on this site
Bowling For Columbine (2002)
The Fog Of War (2003) DVD
Born Into Brothels (2004) DVD
March Of The Penguins (2005)
An Inconvenient Truth (2006) DVD
Taxi To The Dark Side (2007) DVD
Man On Wire (2008) DVD
The Cove (2009)



2010s

Inside Job (2010)
Undefeated (2011)
Searching For Sugar Man (2012)
20 Feet From Stardom (2013)
Citizenfour (2014)
Amy (2015)
O.J.: Made In America (2016)
Icarus (2017) No Blu-ray or DVD listed on this site
Free Solo (2018) DVD
American Factory (2019) Criterion announced - no release date yet.



2020s

My Octopus Teacher (2020) No Blu-ray or DVD listed on this site
Summer Of Soul (…or, When The Revolution Could Not Be Televised) (2021) DVD Only So Far
Navalny (2022) No Blu-ray or DVD listed on this site


Note: Four winners in 1942.
Note: No award in 1946.
Note: Tie in 1986.

Let me know if I missed any!

Award Winners on Blu-Ray
Best Picture (Winners & Nominees) / Best Actress / Best Actor / Best Director
Best Animated Feature (Winners & Nominees) / Best Documentary Feature / Best Foreign Language Film

[RCRochester]

There was a DVD of Marjoe released by Docurama, it's part of this box set which is probably OOP at this point, but it includes some of the releases that are on the website's database...

[CelestialAgent]

Free Solo is on BD and UHD in Europe

[McCrutchy]

Coming on June 9th, 2020:

[Spootnek]

Upcoming nominees for Best Documentary Feature on Blu-ray

Ascension (2021) No Release Yet!
Attica (2021) No Release Yet!
Flee (2021)
Summer Of Soul (2021) DVD
Writing With Fire (2021) No Release Yet!

[McCrutchy]

I'm very surprised that Summer of Soul didn't get a Blu-ray from Disney. Perhaps they've licensed it to Criterion for a release.