* An Unreasonable Man, Henriette Mantel and Steve Skrovan
* Blindsight, Lucy Walker
* Can Mr. Smith Get to Washington Anymore?, Frank Popper
* Deliver Us from Evil, Amy Berg
* The Ground Truth: After the Killing Ends, Patricia Foulkrod
* An Inconvenient Truth, Davis Guggenheim
* Iraq in Fragments, James Longley
* Jesus Camp, Rachel Grady and Heidi Ewing
* Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple, Stanley Nelson
* My Country, My Country, Laura Poitras
* Shut Up & Sing, Barbara Kopple and Cecilia Peck
* Sisters in Law, Florence Ayisi and Kim Longinotto
* Storm of Emotions, Yael Klopmann
* The Trials of Darryl Hunt, Ricki Stern and Anne Sundberg
* The War Tapes, Deborah Scranton