Filmfare Award for Best Documentary


The Filmfare Best Documentary Award was one of the Filmfare Awards, given by the magazine Filmfare to documentary films. It was first presented in 1967, and was eliminated in 1998.

Winners and nominees

1960s

1967 Handicrafts of Rajasthan – Clement T. Baptista1968 India '67 – S.Sukhdev'1969 Explorer'' – Promod Pati'''

1970s

1970 Then, The Rain – Ramesh Gupta1971 Koodal – Mushir Ahmed1972 Creations in Metal – Homi D. Sethna1973 Nine Months to Freedom – S.Sukhdev1974 A Day with the Builders – C.J. Paulose1975 The Nomad Puppeteer – Mani Kaul1976 Sarojini Naidu – B.D. Garga1977 Marvel of Memory – N.K. Issar1978 Transformations – Zafar Hai
  • '''1979 no award'''

1980s

1980 Malfunction – Pankaj Parashar1981 They Call Me Chamar – Lokesh Lalvani1982 Faces After the Storm – Prakash Jha1983 Experience India – Zafar Hai1984 Veer Savarkar – Prem Vaidya1985 Charakku – Om Prakash Sharma1986 Bombay: Our City – Anand Patwardhan1987 no award1988 no award'1989 Siddeswari'' - Mani Kaul'''

1990s

1990 no award1991 Amjad Ali Khan – Gulzar1992 Ram ke Naam – Anand Patwardhan1993 All in the Family – Ketan Mehta1994 I Live in Behrampada – Madhushree Datta1995 Manzar – Gopi Desai1996 A Narmada Diary – Anand Patwardhan and Simantini Dhuru'1997 Beyond the Himalayas'' – Goutam Ghose'''