Golden Space Needle Award – Best Documentary

2004 Seattle International Film Festival - Golden Space Needle Award - Best Documentary WinnerBorn Into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light KidsZana BriskiTwo documentary filmmakers chronicle their time in Sonagchi, Calcutta and the relationships they developed with children of prostitutes who work the city's notorious red light district.Amazon

1991 Seattle International Film Festival - Golden Space Needle Award - Best Documentary WinnerParis Is BurningJennie LivingstonA chronicle of New York's drag scene in the 1980s, focusing on balls, voguing and the ambitions and dreams of those who gave the era its warmth and vitality.Amazon

1992 Seattle International Film Festival - Golden Space Needle Award - Best Documentary WinnerA Brief History of TimeErrol MorrisA film about the life and work of the cosmologist, Stephen Hawking, who despite his near total paralysis, was one of the great minds of all time.Amazon

1993 Seattle International Film Festival - Golden Space Needle Award - Best Documentary WinnerRoad ScholarRoger WeisbergAndrei Cordescu, NPR journalist, Romanian immigrant, naturalized American citizen, and newly-licensed driver, sets out on a cross- country road trip. He travels from-sea-to-shining-sea in a...Amazon

1994 Seattle International Film Festival - Golden Space Needle Award - Best Documentary WinnerThe Wonderful, Horrible Life of Leni RiefenstahlRay MüllerA documentary about the life and work of Leni Riefenstahl, a German film director most notorious for making the most effective propaganda films for the Nazis.AmazonThe Wonderful, Horrible Life of Leni RiefenstahlRay MüllerA documentary about the life and work of Leni Riefenstahl, a German film director most notorious for making the most effective propaganda films for the Nazis.Amazon

1995 Seattle International Film Festival - Golden Space Needle Award - Best Documentary WinnerCrumbTerry ZwigoffAn intimate portrait of controversial cartoonist Robert Crumb and his traumatized family.Amazon

1996 Seattle International Film Festival - Golden Space Needle Award - Best Documentary WinnerHype!Doug PrayDocumentary covering the growth and subsequent overexposure of the Seattle "grunge" music scene in the early 90sAmazon

1997 Seattle International Film Festival - Golden Space Needle Award - Best Documentary WinnerLicensed to KillArthur DongWinner of both the Directors and Filmmakers Trophy awards at the Sundance Film Festival, "Licensed to Kill" goes behind the media headlines of recent high-profile anti-gay murders to ...Amazon

1998 Seattle International Film Festival - Golden Space Needle Award - Best Documentary WinnerFrank Lloyd WrightKen BurnsA biography of the life and work of the American architect.Amazon

1999 Seattle International Film Festival - Golden Space Needle Award - Best Documentary WinnerBuena Vista Social ClubWim WendersAging Cuban musicians whose talents had been virtually forgotten following Castro's takeover of Cuba, are brought out of retirement by Ry Cooder, who travelled to Havana in order to bring the musicians together, resulting in triumphant performances of extrAmazon