2009 Film Independent Spirit Awards – Best Documentary Winner and Nominees

Man on Wire

James Marsh

A look at tightrope walker Philippe Petit’s daring, but illegal, high-wire routine performed between New York City’s World Trade Center’s twin towers in 1974, what some consider, “the artistic crime of the century”.

Encounters at the End of the World

Werner Herzog

The Betrayal – Nerakhoon

Ellen Kuras

The Order of Myths

Margaret Brown

Up the Yangtze

Yung Chang