Black Reel Award for Outstanding Television Documentary or Special

Black Reel Award for Outstanding Television Documentary or Special
Awarded forOutstanding Television Documentary or Special
CountryUnited States
Presented byBlack Reel Awards for Television
First awarded2001
Currently held byTina (2021)
Websiteblackreelawards.com


This article lists the winners and nominees for the Black Reel Award for Outstanding Television Documentary or Special. This award is given to the directors and was first awarded during the 2001 ceremony. In May 2017 the category was moved from the film awards as part of the Black Reel Awards for Television honors thus resulting in two separate winners in 2017.

Winners and nominees

Winners are listed first and highlighted in bold.

2000s

Year Documentary / Special Network Director Ref
2001
Half Past Autumn: The Life and Works of Gordon Parks Showtime Craig Laurence Rice [1]
The BET 20th Anniversary Celebration BET Terri McCoy
Dave Chappelle: Killin' Them Softly Comedy Central Stan Lathan
That's Black Entertainment Showtime Walid Khaldi
Ali-Frazier I: One Nation...Divisible HBO Dave Anderson
2002
Beyond Tara: The Extraordinary Life of Hattie McDaniel AMC Madison D. Lacy [2]
Marcus Garvey: Look for Me in the Whirlwind PBS Stanley Nelson
BET Walk of Fame: Patti LaBelle BET Glenn Weiss
32nd Image Awards FOX Terri McCoy
VH1 Divas: The One and Only Aretha Franklin Vh1 Liz Imperio
2003
Jim Brown: All American HBO Spike Lee [3]
Ralph Ellison: An American Journey PBS Avon Kirkland
Heroes of Black Comedy Comedy Central David Upshal & Ninder Billing
Inside TV Land: African-Americans in Television TV Land
2004
Hollywood Celebrates Denzel Washington: An American Cinematheque Tribute AMC Michael Dempsey [4]
Hell Up in Hollywood: Soul Cinema and the 1970s AMC Eric Anderson
Brother Outside: The Life of Bayard Rustin PBS Nancy D. Kates & Bennett Singer
The Murder of Emmett Till PBS Stanley Nelson
Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives PBS Ed Bell & Thomas Lennon
2005
American Beyond the Color Line with Henry Louis Gates Jr. PBS Mary Crisp & Daniel Percival [5]
Beyond Brown: Pursuing the Promise PBS Carol Bash, Lullie Haddad & Stanley Nelson
The N Word Trio Todd Williams
2006
Unstoppable: A Conversation with Melvin Van Peebles, Gordon Parks & Ossie Davis Black Starz! Warrington Hudlin [6]
Slavery and the Making of America PBS Leslie D. Farrell, Chana Gazit, Dante James & Gail Pellett
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson PBS Ken Burns
Chisholm '72 Unbought & Unbossed PBS Shola Lynch
Ring of Fire: The Emile Griffith Story USA Network Ron Berger & Dan Klores
2007–2009 —

2010s

Year Documentary / Special Network Director Ref
2010 —
2011
If God Is Willing and da Creek Don't Rise HBO Spike Lee [7]
The Black List: Volume Three HBO Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
2012
Planet Rock: The Story of Hip-Hop and the Crack Generation VH1 Rickard Lowe & Martin Torgoff [8]
Pray the Devil Back to Hell PBS Gini Reticker
The Latino List HBO Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
Black in Latin America PBS Ricardo Pollack & Ilana Trachtman
The Fab Five ESPN Jason Hehir
2013
Brooklyn Boheme Showtime Nelson George [9]
The Announcement ESPN Nelson George
On the Shoulders of Giants Showtime Deborah Morales
Slavery by Another Name PBS Sam Pollard
Uprising: Hip Hop and the LA Riots VH1 Mark Ford
2014
Whoopi Goldberg Presents Moms Mabley HBO Whoopi Goldberg [10]
Dark Girls OWN Bill Duke
Venus vs. ESPN Ava DuVernay
Jimi Hendrix: Hear My Train a Comin' PBS Bob Smeaton
Made in America Showtime Ron Howard
2015
Mr. Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown HBO Alex Gibney [11]
Finding the Funk VH1 Nelson George
On the Run Tour: Beyoncé and Jay-Z HBO Jonas Åkerlund
The Tanning of America: One Nation Under Hip-Hop VH1 Billy Corben
Terror at the Mall HBO Dan Reed
2016
The Wiz Live! NBC Kenny Leon [12]
3 ½ Minutes HBO Marc Silver
Holler If You Hear Me: Black and Gay in the Church BET Clay Cane
Kareem: Minority of One HBO Clare Lewins
Stevie Wonder Songs in the Key of Life: An All-Star Grammy Tribute CBS Leon Knoles
2017
Lemonade HBO Beyoncé Knowles and Khalil Joseph [13]
Black America Since MLK: Still I Rise HBO Talleah Bridges
Hamilton's America PBS Alex Horowitz
Jackie Robinson HBO Ken Burns
Streets of Compton A&E Leon Knoles
2017
Time: The Kalief Browder Story Spike TV Jenner Furst [14]
LA 92 National Geographic T.J. Martin & Daniel Lindsay
The Lost Tapes: LA Riots Smithsonian Channel Tom Jennings
L.A. Burning: The Riots 25 Years Later A&E One9 & Erik Parker
Rodney King Netflix Spike Lee
2018
The Defiant Ones HBO Allen Hughes [15][16]
Being Serena HBO Noah Lerner
Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert NBC David Leveaux & Alex Rudzinski
Biggie: The Life of Notorious B.I.G. A&E Mark Ford
Def Comedy Jam 25 Netflix Louis J. Horvitz
2019
Surviving R. Kelly Lifetime Nigel Bellis & Astral Finnie [17]
Rest in Power: The Trayvon Martin Story Paramount Network Jenner Furst, Julia Willoughby Nason
Wu-Tang Clan: Of Mics and Men Showtime Sacha Jenkins
Say Her Name: The Life and Death of Sandra Bland HBO Kate Davis & David Heilbroner
HΘMΣCΘMING Netflix Beyonce & Ed Burke

2020s

Year Documentary / Special Network Director Ref
2020
The Last Dance ESPN Jason Hehir [18][19][20]
Becoming Netflix Nadia Hallgren
Let's Go Crazy: The Grammy Salute to Prince CBS David Wild
Hitsville: The Making of Motown Showtime Ben Turner & Gabe Turner
Who Killed Malcolm X? Netflix Rachel Dretzin & Phil Bertelsen
2021
Tina HBO T.J. Martin & Dan Lindsay [21][22]
Black Is King Disney+ Beyonce, Kwasi Fordjour, Emmanuel Adjei, Blitz Bazawule, Ibra Ake, Jenn Nkiru, Jake Nava, Pierre Debusschere, Dikayl Rimmasch, Dafe Oboro
High on the Hog: How African American Cuisine Transformed America Netflix Stephen Satterfield
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air Reunion HBO Max Marcus Raboy
First Ladies: Michelle Obama CNN Liz Mermin

Total awards by network

  • HBO - 7
  • AMC - 2
  • Showtime - 2
  • Black Starz! - 1
  • ESPN - 1
  • Lifetime - 1
  • NBC - 1
  • PBS - 1
  • Spike TV - 1
  • VH1 - 1

References

  1. ^ 2001 Black Reel Awards
  2. ^ 2002 Black Reel Awards
  3. ^ 2003 Black Reel Awards
  4. ^ 2004 Black Reel Awards
  5. ^ 2005 Black Reel Awards
  6. ^ 2006 Black Reel Awards
  7. ^ 2011 Black Reel Awards
  8. ^ 2012 Black Reel Awards
  9. ^ 2013 Black Reel Awards
  10. ^ 2014 Black Reel Awards
  11. ^ 2015 Black Reel Awards
  12. ^ 2016 Black Reel Awards
  13. ^ "Moonlight Shines Bright!". Black Reel Awards. February 17, 2017. Archived from the original on October 4, 2021. Retrieved February 17, 2017.
  14. ^ "Moonlight Shines Bright!". Black Reel Awards. February 17, 2017. Archived from the original on October 4, 2021. Retrieved February 17, 2017.
  15. ^ 2018 Black Reel Awards for Television
  16. ^ http://blackreelawards.com/historic-night-for-queen-sugar/ Archived 2018-06-24 at the Wayback Machine VOTERS ARE “SWEET” ON QUEEN SUGAR
  17. ^ 2019 Black Reel Awards for Television
  18. ^ 2020 Black Reel Awards for Television
  19. ^ https://awardswatch.com/watchmen-insecure-top-black-reel-awards-for-television-winners/ ‘Watchmen,’ ‘Insecure’ top Black Reel Awards for Television winners
  20. ^ http://blackreelawards.com/watchmen-insecure-pace-the-black-reel-awards-for-tv-nominations/ Archived 2020-07-04 at the Wayback Machine WATCHMEN & INSECURE PACE THE BLACK REEL AWARDS FOR TV NOMINATIONS
  21. ^ "Black Reel Awards for Television (2021)". IMDb.
  22. ^ Gordon, Tim. "PLENTY OF "LOVE" IN THE HEART OF THE COUNTRY!". blackreelawards.com. Archived from the original on 28 June 2021. Retrieved 5 July 2021.