In the following list, the first titles listed in gold are the winners; those not in gold are nominees, which are listed in alphabetical order. The years given are those in which the ceremonies took place:
^As a juried award, nominees had to garner 50% approval to win the award. The nominee did not meet the benchmark and no award was given.
^As a juried award, nominees had to garner 50% approval to win the award. The nominee did not meet the benchmark and no award was given.
^As a juried award, nominees had to garner 50% approval to win the award.
^As a juried award, nominees had to garner 50% approval to win the award.
^As a juried award, nominees had to garner 50% approval to win the award.
^As a juried award, nominees had to garner 50% approval to win the award.
^As a juried award, nominees had to garner 50% approval to win the award.
^As a juried award, nominees had to garner 50% approval to win the award.
^As a juried award, nominees had to garner 50% approval to win the award. The nominee did not meet the benchmark and no award was given.
^As a juried award, nominees had to garner 50% approval to win the award.
^As a juried award, nominees had to garner 50% approval to win the award. No nominee met the benchmark and no award was given.
^As a juried award, nominees had to garner 50% approval to win the award. The nominee did not meet the benchmark and no award was given.
^As a juried award, nominees had to garner 50% approval to win the award.
^In 2020, the TV Academy rescinded a win in this category for the Disney Channel special George Stevens: D-Day to Berlin, written by George Stevens Jr. The program was a re-edit of the 1985 BBC documentary D-Day to Berlin, in violation of a rule that "a program that is a foreign acquisition without benefit of a domestic co-production cannot be re-introduced into eligibility in a current awards year, even though it may have been modified with new footage, sound track, musical score, etc."
Referencesedit
^"Nominees/Winners | Television Academy". Television Academy. Retrieved April 18, 2020.
^"Nominees/Winners | Television Academy". Television Academy. Retrieved April 18, 2020.
^"Nominees/Winners | Television Academy". Television Academy. Retrieved April 18, 2020.
^"Nominees/Winners | Television Academy". Television Academy. Retrieved April 18, 2020.
^"Nominees/Winners | Television Academy". Television Academy. Retrieved April 18, 2020.
^"Nominees/Winners | Television Academy". Television Academy. Retrieved April 18, 2020.
^"Nominees/Winners | Television Academy". Television Academy. Retrieved April 18, 2020.
^"Nominees/Winners | Television Academy". Television Academy. Retrieved April 18, 2020.
^"Nominees/Winners | Television Academy". Television Academy. Retrieved April 18, 2020.
^"Nominees/Winners | Television Academy". Television Academy. Retrieved April 18, 2020.
^"Nominees/Winners | Television Academy". Television Academy. Retrieved April 18, 2020.
^"Nominees/Winners | Television Academy". Television Academy. Retrieved April 18, 2020.
^"Nominees/Winners | Television Academy". Television Academy. Retrieved April 18, 2020.
^Feinberg, Scott (March 12, 2020). "TV Academy Rescinds Several of George Stevens Jr.'s Emmy Noms, Awards (Exclusive)". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved March 12, 2020.
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The Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Nonfiction Program is awarded to one television documentary or nonfiction series each year Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Nonfiction ProgramAwarded forOutstanding Writing for a Nonfiction ProgramCountryUnited StatesPresented byAcademy of Television Arts amp SciencesCurrently held byThe U S and the Holocaust 2023 Websiteemmys wbr com In the following list the first titles listed in gold are the winners those not in gold are nominees which are listed in alphabetical order The years given are those in which the ceremonies took place Contents 1 Winners and nominations 1 1 1970s 1 2 1980s 1 3 1990s 1 4 2000s 1 5 2010s 1 6 2020s 2 Programs with multiple awards 3 Individuals with multiple awards 4 Programs with multiple nominations 5 Notes 6 ReferencesWinners and nominations edit1970s edit Year Program Episode Nominees Network 1979 Outstanding Individual Achievement Informational Programming 1 note 1 Scared Straight Arnold Shapiro Syndicated 1980s edit Year Program Episode Nominees Network 1980 Outstanding Individual Achievement Informational Programming 2 note 2 The Body Human The Body Beautiful Robert E Fuisz and Louis H Gorfain CBS 1983 Outstanding Individual Achievement Informational Programming 3 note 3 The Body Human The Living Code Robert E Fuisz and Louis H Gorfain CBS I Leonardo A Journey of the Mind Chandler Cowles CBS 1984 Outstanding Individual Achievement Informational Programming 4 note 4 A Walk Through the 20th Century with Bill Moyers Marshall Texas Bill Moyers PBS 1985 Outstanding Individual Achievement Informational Programming Writing 5 note 5 Heritage Civilization and the Jews The Crucible of Europe Howard Enders John G Fox Michael Joseloff and Marc Siegel PBS Out of the Ashes Brian Winston Heritage Civilization and the Jews Roads from the Ghetto John G Fox and Eugene Marner PBS The Living Planet A Portrait of the Earth David Attenborough 1987 Outstanding Individual Achievement Informational Programming Writing 6 note 6 The Story of English A Muse of Fire Robert MacNeil and Robert McCrum PBS American Masters Billie Holiday The Long Night of Lady Day John Jeremy PBS 1988 Outstanding Individual Achievement Informational Programming 7 note 7 American Masters Buster Keaton A Hard Act to Follow Kevin Brownlow and David Gill PBS Dear America Letters Home from Vietnam Bill Couturie and Richard Dewhurst HBO American Masters The Ten Year Lunch The Wit and Legend of the Algonquin Round Table Peter Foges and Mary Jo Kaplan PBS 1989 Outstanding Writing in Informational Programming 8 note 8 The Mind Search for the Mind John Heminway PBS 1990s edit Year Program Episode Nominees Network 1990 Outstanding Writing in Informational Programming 9 note 9 American Masters Broadway Dreamers The Legacy of the Group Theater Steve Lawson PBS 1991 Outstanding Individual Achievement Informational Programming 10 note 10 American Masters Preston Sturges The Rise and Fall of an American Dreamer Todd McCarthy PBS The Civil War The Better Angels of Our Nature Ric Burns Ken Burns and Geoffrey C Ward 1992 Outstanding Individual Achievement Informational Programming 11 note 11 Hearts of Darkness A Filmmaker s Apocalypse Fax Bahr and George Hickenlooper Showtime Losing It All The Reality of Alzheimer s Disease Michael Mierendorf HBO 1993 Outstanding Individual Achievement Informational Programming 12 note 12 Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory America s Folk Religion Randall Balmer PBS 1994 Outstanding Individual Achievement Informational Programming note 13 note 14 13 14 The Legend of Billy the Kid Todd Robinson Disney Reflections on Elephants Dereck Joubert PBS The Untold West The Black West Dennis Watlington TBS 2000s edit Year Program Episode s Nominees Network 2003 15 American Experience Seabiscuit Michelle Ferrari PBS American Experience The Murder of Emmett Till Marcia A Smith PBS Da Ali G Show Sacha Baron Cohen Dan Mazer Anthony Hines Jamie Glassman and James Bobin HBO Journeys with George Alexandra Pelosi Unchained Memories Readings from the Slave Narratives Mark Jonathan Harris 2004 16 American Masters Judy Garland By Myself Susan Lacy and Stephen Stept PBS Fred Rogers America s Favorite Neighbor Rick Sebak PBS JFK A Presidency Revealed David C Taylor History Pandemic Facing AIDS Uganda Thailand Mark Bailey HBO Penn amp Teller Bullshit War on Drugs Penn Jillette Teller Emma Webster Star Price and Michael Goudeau Showtime Terry Jones Medieval Lives The Peasant Terry Jones History 2005 17 Unforgivable Blackness The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson Geoffrey C Ward PBS Beyond the Da Vinci Code Thomas Quinn and Rob Blumenstein History Broadway The American Musical Oh What a Beautiful Mornin JoAnn Young PBS Death in Gaza Saira Shah HBO Penn amp Teller Bullshit Profanity Penn Jillette Teller Jon Hotchkiss Star Price and Michael Goudeau Showtime 2006 18 Stardust The Bette Davis Story Peter Jones TCM American Masters John Ford John Wayne The Filmmaker and the Legend Kenneth Bowser PBS Ernest Hemingway Rivers to the Sea DeWitt Sage How William Shatner Changed the World Alan Handel and Julian Jones History Penn amp Teller Bullshit Prostitution Penn Jillette Teller Cliff Schoenberg Jon Hotchkiss Michael Goudeau and Star Price Showtime 2007 19 American Masters Andy Warhol A Documentary Film James Sanders and Ric Burns PBS Penn amp Teller Bullshit Wal Mart Penn Jillette Teller Sheryl Zohn Jon Hotchkiss Michael Goudeau Star Price Cliff Schoenberg and David Weiss Showtime Planet Earth Mountains Vanessa Berlowitz and Gary Parker Discovery Star Wars The Legacy Revealed Steven Smith David Comtois and Kevin Burns History This American Life God s Close Up Nancy Updike Showtime 2008 20 The War Pride of Our Nation June August 1944 Geoffrey C Ward PBS American Experience Walt Whitman Mark Zwonitzer PBS Intervention Caylee Jeff Grogan A amp E Life After People David de Vries History This American Life Escape Ira Glass Showtime 2009 21 Roman Polanski Wanted and Desired Joe Bini P G Morgan and Marina Zenovich HBO American Experience The Trials of J Robert Oppenheimer David Grubin PBS American Masters Jerome Robbins Something to Dance About Amanda Vaill Make Em Laugh The Funny Business of America When I m Bad I m Better The Groundbreakers Michael Kantor and Laurence Maslon Penn amp Teller Bullshit New Age Medicine Penn Jillette Teller Star Price Rich Nathanson Michael Goudeau David Wechter Cliff Schoenberg and Sheryl Zohn Showtime 2010s edit Year Program Episode s Nominees Network 2010 22 The National Parks America s Best Idea The Last Refuge 1890 1915 Dayton Duncan PBS America The Story of Us Division Jenny Ash and Ed Fields History Anthony Bourdain No Reservations Prague Anthony Bourdain Travel The Buddha David Grubin PBS Life Challenges of Life Paul Spillenger Discovery 2011 23 American Experience Freedom Riders Stanley Nelson Jr PBS Anthony Bourdain No Reservations Haiti Anthony Bourdain Travel Gasland Josh Fox HBO Gettysburg Richard Bedser and Ed Fields History Moguls amp Movie Stars The Birth of Hollywood Jon Wilkman TCM 2012 24 Prohibition A Nation of Hypocrites Geoffrey C Ward PBS American Experience Clinton Barak Goodman PBS American Masters Johnny Carson King of Late Night Peter Jones Anthony Bourdain No Reservations Cuba Anthony Bourdain Travel Sesame Street Growing Hope Against Hunger Christine Ferraro PBS 2013 25 Mea Maxima Culpa Silence in the House of God Alex Gibney HBO Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown Libya Anthony Bourdain CNN The Dust Bowl The Great Plow Up Dayton Duncan PBS Ethel Mark Bailey HBO The Men Who Built America A New War Begins Stephen David Patrick Reams David C White Keith Palmer Randy Counsman and Ed Fields History 2014 26 Cosmos A Spacetime Odyssey Standing Up in the Milky Way Ann Druyan and Steven Soter Fox American Experience JFK Mark Zwonitzer PBS Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown Congo Anthony Bourdain CNN The World Wars Trial by Fire Stephen David David C White John Ealer Alec Michod Chelsea Coates Randy Counsman Russ McCarroll Jordan Rosenblum and David Schaye History Years of Living Dangerously The Surge Adam Bolt Showtime 2015 27 Going Clear Scientology and the Prison of Belief Alex Gibney HBO American Experience Last Days in Vietnam Keven McAlester and Mark Bailey PBS Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown Iran Anthony Bourdain CNN Kurt Cobain Montage of Heck Brett Morgen HBO The Roosevelts An Intimate History The Rising Road 1933 1939 Geoffrey C Ward PBS 2016 28 Making a Murderer Eighteen Years Lost Laura Ricciardi and Moira Demos Netflix American Experience Walt Disney Mark Zwonitzer Sarah Colt and Tom Jennings PBS Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown Borneo Anthony Bourdain CNN Everything Is Copy Nora Ephron Scripted amp Unscripted Jacob Bernstein HBO Jackie Robinson David McMahon and Sarah Burns PBS 2017 29 13th Ava DuVernay and Spencer Averick Netflix Amanda Knox Matthew Hamachek and Brian McGinn Netflix Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown Houston Anthony Bourdain CNN The Beatles Eight Days a Week The Touring Years Mark Monroe Hulu Bill Nye Saves the World The Sexual Spectrum Prashanth Venkataramanujam CeCe Pleasants Sanden Totten Mike Drucker and Flora Lichtman Netflix 2018 30 Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown Southern Italy Anthony Bourdain CNN The Defiant Ones Episode 1 Allen Hughes Lasse Jarvi and Doug Pray HBO Icarus Bryan Fogel Mark Monroe and Jon Bertain Netflix Jane Brett Morgen Nat Geo Mister Rogers It s You I Like JoAnn Young PBS The Vietnam War Episode 8 The History of the World April 1969 May 1970 Geoffrey C Ward 2019 31 Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown Kenya Anthony Bourdain CNN The Case Against Adnan Syed Forbidden Love Amy J Berg HBO Fyre Fraud Jenner Furst and Julia Willoughby Hulu Hostile Planet Grasslands Bruce Kennedy Nat Geo Our Planet Jungles Huw Cordey Keith Scholey Alastair Fothergill and David Attenborough Netflix Wu Tang Clan Of Mics and Men Episode 1 Paul Greenhouse Sacha Jenkins and Peter J Scalettar Showtime 2020s edit Year Program Episode s Nominees Network 2020 32 Don t F k with Cats Hunting an Internet Killer Closing the Net Mark Lewis Netflix Beastie Boys Story Mike Diamond Adam Horovitz and Spike Jonze Apple TV The Cave Alisar Hasan and Feras Fayyad Nat Geo Circus of Books Rachel Mason and Kathryn Robson Netflix McMillion Episode 1 James Lee Hernandez and Brian Lazarte HBO 2021 33 The Social Dilemma Vickie Curtis Davis Coombe and Jeff Orlowski Netflix All In The Fight for Democracy Jack Youngelson Prime Video Allen v Farrow Episode 3 Kirby Dick Amy Ziering Mikaela Shwer and Parker Laramie HBO The Bee Gees How Can You Mend a Broken Heart Mark Monroe Tulsa Burning The 1921 Race Massacre Maia Harris and Marco Williams History 2022 34 Lucy and Desi Mark Monroe Prime Video The Andy Warhol Diaries Shadows Andy amp Jed Andrew Rossi Netflix How To with John Wilson How To Appreciate Wine John Wilson Michael Koman Susan Orlean and Conner O Malley HBO The Problem with Jon Stewart The Economy Chelsea Devantez Jon Stewart and Kristen Acimovic Apple TV The Tinder Swindler Felicity Morris Netflix 2023 35 The U S and the Holocaust Episode 2 Yearning to Breathe Free 1938 1942 Geoffrey C Ward PBS Dear Mama Panther Power Allen Hughes and Lasse Jarvi FX Moonage Daydream Brett Morgen HBO 100 Foot Wave Chapter V Lost at Sea Zach Rothfeld Selena Gomez My Mind amp Me Alek Keshishian and Paul Marchand Apple TV Programs with multiple awards edit4 wins American Masters 2 wins American Experience Anthony Bourdain Parts UnknownIndividuals with multiple awards edit5 awards Geoffrey C Ward 2 awards Alex Gibney Anthony BourdainPrograms with multiple nominations edit9 nominations American Masters 8 nominations American Experience 7 nominations Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown 4 nominations Penn amp Teller Bullshit 3 nominations Heritage Civilization and the JewsNotes edit As a juried award nominees had to garner 50 approval to win the award The nominee did not meet the benchmark and no award was given As a juried 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