Filmfare Award for Best Documentary

Winners and nominees

1960s

• 1967 Handicrafts of Rajasthan – Clement T. Baptista
• 1968 India '67 – S. Sukhdev
• 1969 Explorer – Promod Pati

  1970s

• 1970 Then, The Rain – Ramesh Gupta
• 1971 Koodal – Mushir Ahmed
• 1972 Creations in Metal – Homi D. Sethna
• 1973 Nine Months to Freedom – S. Sukhdev
• 1974 A Day with the Builders – C.J. Paulose
• 1975 The Nomad Puppeteer – Mani Kaul
• 1976 Sarojini Naidu – B.D. Garga
• 1977 Marvel of Memory – N.K. Issar
• 1978 Transformations – Zafar Hai
• 1979 no award

  1980s

• 1980 Malfunction – Pankaj Parashar
• 1981 They Call Me Chamar – Lokesh Lalvani
• 1982 Faces After the Storm – Prakash Jha
• 1983 Experience India – Zafar Hai
• 1984 Veer Savarkar – Prem Vaidya
• 1985 Charakku – Om Prakash Sharma
• 1986 ' – Anand Patwardhan
• 1987 no award
• 1988 no award
• 1989 no award

  1990s

• 1990 Siddeshwari – Mani Kaul
• 1991 Amjad Ali Khan – Gulzar
• 1992 Ram ke Naam – Anand Patwardhan
• 1993 All in the Family – Ketan Mehta
• 1994 I Live in Behrampada – Madhushree Datta
• 1995 Manzar – Gopi Desai
• 1996 A Narmada Diary – Anand Patwardhan and Simantini Dhuru
• 1997 Beyond the Himalayas – Goutam Ghose