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British Academy Television Award
British Academy Television Award
Country	United Kingdom
Presented by	British Academy of Film and Television Arts
First awarded	1964
Currently held by	Ellie Simmonds: Finding My Secret Family (2024)
Website	http://www.bafta.org/

The British Academy Television Award for Best Single Documentary is one of the major categories of the British Academy Television Awards (BAFTAs), the primary awards ceremony of the British television industry. According to the BAFTA website, the category is "for one-off documentaries only. Includes individual episodes of documentary strands."^[1]

The category has gone through some name changes since its inception:

It was first awarded as an individual recognition from 1964 to 1970.
From 1978 to 1983 it was presented as Best Documentary.
From 1984 to 2006 it was presented as Flaherty Documentary Award or Robert Flaherty Documentary Award, also from 1984 to 1990, documentaries that used to compete for the BAFTA Award for Best Documentary competed in this category instead.
Since 2007 it has been presented as Best Single Documentary.

Winners and nominees

1960s

Year	Recipient(s)	Title
1964	Anthony de Lotbinière
1965	Jack Gold
1966	Charles Squires	The Grafters Paradise Street
	Peter Batty	The Fall and Rise of the House of Krupp The Road to Suez
	Richard Cawston	Born Chinese
	Anthony de Lotbinière	Eton: The Pacemakers
	Denis Mitchell	Sharon The Entertainers The Dream Machine
	Michael Tuchner	A Little Madness No Mean City: Florence No Mean City: Athens Pilgrims to Lourdes
1967	Kevin Billington
1968	Kevin Billington
1969	Michael Darlow, Mike Wooller	Cities at War

1970s

Best Factual Documentary

Year	Title	Recipient(s)
1970	A Year in the Life	Paul Watson
	The Life And Times of Lord Mountbatten	Peter Morley
	The Royal Family	Richard Cawston
	Struggle For China The Gold Run Captain RN It Never Seemed To Rain All Or Nothing Man Papa Doc The Pugnacious Pacifist Whicker's New World	Tony Essex

Best Documentary

Year	Title	Recipient(s)
1978	Hospital: Casualty	Tim King
	Goodbye Longfellow Road	John Willis
	Whicker's World - "Palm Beach"	Michael Tuchner
	World in Action: The Life and Death of Steve Biko	Michael Ryan
1979	Opium: The Warlords	Adrian Cowell
	The Hong Kong Beat: The Bamboo Curtain	John Purdie
	MacMillan's Mayerling	Derek Bailey
	Whicker's World - "India: He's A Stuck-Up Maharajah - I'm Not Going To Marry Him"	Ian Mcfarlane, Nigel Turner
	Nuts and Bolts	Allan Segal

1980s

Year	Title	Recipient(s)
1980	Fred Dibnah: Steeplejack	Don Haworth
	The World About Us: Bloody Ivory (Special)	Simon Trevor, Bill Travers
	Kitty - Return To Auschwitz	Peter Morley
	Year Zero: The Silent Death of Cambodia	David Munro
	Made In Korea	Allan Segal
1981	Strangeways: Christmas	Rex Bloomstein
	Cambodia - Year One	David Munro
	Great Railway Journeys of the World (for "Deccan")	Gerry Troyna
	The South Bank Show: A Time There Was… A Profile Of Benjamin Britten	Tony Palmer
	The World About Us - "Osprey"	Hugh Miles
1982	The Ritz	Edward Mirzoeff
	The South Bank Show: Nickleby and Company	Andrew Snell
	Prostitute I Am, Common I'm Not	Judy Lever
	Snowdon on Camera	Iain Johnstone
1983	Laurence Olivier - A Life	Melvyn Bragg, Bob Bee
	A Complaint of Rape	Roger Graef, Charles Stewart
	Ice, Wind and Fire	Michael Andrews
	The Orson Welles Story	Alan Yentob, Leslie Megahey

Flaherty Documentary Award

Year	Title	Recipient(s)
1984	Schindler	Jon Blair
	Forty Minutes - "Female Circumcision"	Louise Panton
	The Visit - "Part 3: The Boy David"	Alex McCall
	Wildlife on One - "Night Life"	Dilys Breese
1985	28 Up	Michael Apted
	The South Bank Show: Alan Bennett	David Hinton
	Afghanistan Reports: Allah Against the Gunships	Sandy Gall
	GI Brides	Lavinia Warner
1986	Omnibus: Leonard Berstein's West Side Story	Christopher Swann
	David Lean: A Life in Film	Nigel Wattis
	Marilyn Monroe: Say Goodbye to the President	Christopher Olgiati
	The Frozen Ocean - "Part 1 - Kingdom of The Ice Bear"	Mike Salisbury, Hugh Miles
1987	Shoah	Claude Lanzmann
	British Cinema: Personal View - A Turnip Head's Guide to the British Cinema	Alan Parker
	Equinox - "Prisoner of Consciousness"	John Dollar
	Forty Minutes - "The Fishing Party"	Paul Watson
	Omnibus - "The Mission"	Robin Lough
	Viewpoint '86: Afghanistan: The Agony Of A Nation	Sandy Gall
1988	Baka - People of the Rain Forest	Phil Agland
	Forty Minutes - "Home From The Hill"	Molly Dineen
	Fourteen Days in May	Paul Hamann
	Man-Eating Tigers, Saving The Tiger	Naresh Bedi
1989	This Week - "Death on the Rock"	Chris Oxley
	The Duty Men: East Enders	Paul Hamann
	In From The Cold: A Portrait of Richard Burton	Tony Palmer
	Viewpoint Special: The Men Who Killed Kennedy	Nigel Turner

1990s

Year	Title	Recipient(s)
1990	First Tuesday - "Four Hours in My Lai"	Kevin Sim
	Everyman - "Romania - State of Fear"	John Blake
	Lost Children of The Empire	Joanna Mack, Mike Fox
	Viewpoint '89: Cambodia - Year 10: A Special Report by John Pilger	David Munro
1991	The Last African Flying Boat	David Wallace
	Harold Lloyd - The Third Genius	Kevin Brownlow, David Gill
	Viewpoint: Cambodia, The Betrayal - A Special Report by John Pilger	David Munro
	Viewpoint: Ceausescu's Children	Patricia Ingram
1992	35 Up	Michael Apted
	World in Action - "Special: The Birmingham Six - Their Own Story"	Ian McBride, Charles Trernayne, Eamon O’Connor
	Viewpoint '91: Hellfighters of Kuwait	Mike Rossiter
	True Stories - "The Leader, His Driver and the Driver's Wife"	Nick Broomfield
1993	Video Diaries: The Man Who Loves Gary Lineker	Bob Long, Dr Yili Hasani
	Cutting Edge - "Tornado Down"	Adam Bullmore, Tom Roberts
	First Tuesday - "Katie and Eilish - Siamese Twins"	Mark Galloway
	Inside Story: Bag Lady	David Pearson
1994	Timewatch - "The Mysterious Career Of Lee Harvey Oswald"	William Cran
	True Stories: The Unforgiving	Clive Gordon
	Viewpoint '93: Saddam's Killing Fields	Rebecca Dobbs, Christopher Jeans
	Sarajevo Diary	Neil Bell, Dom Rotheroe, Karl Schonfeld
1995	Inside Story: Silent Twin - Without My Shadow	Olivia Lichtenstein
	Cutting Edge - "The Club"	Frances Berrigan, Brian Hill, Kate Woods
	Torvill and Dean: Facing the Music	Edward Mirzoeff
	25 Bloody Years: The Dead	Peter Dale
1996	True Stories: The Betrayed	Clive Gordon
	Anne Frank Remembered	Jon Blair
	Network First: Man and Animal	Anthony Thomas
	Secret Asia: The Dying Rooms	Brian Woods, Kate Blewett
1997	Horizon - "Fermat's Last Theorem"	John Lynch, Simon Singh
	Cutting Edge - "The Home"	Paul Watson
	Elton John: Tantrums & Tiaras	Polly Steele, Claudia Rosencrantz, David Furnish
	Timewatch - "Remember Aberfan"	Catrine Clay
1998	True Stories: The Grave	Belinda Giles
	Inside Story: Nazi Gold	Christopher Olgiati
	Network First: Out of the Shadows/We Are The Treasury	Ross Wilson
	Wildlife Special: Polar Bear	Martha Holmes
1999	After Lockerbie	Ross Wilson
	42 Up	Michael Apted, Claire Lewis
	Horizon - "Mir Mortals"	Jill Fullerton-Smith
	Inside Story: Tongue Tied	Olivia Lichtenstein

2000s

Year	Title	Recipient(s)	Broadcaster
2000	True Stories: Divorce Iranian Style	Kim Longinotto, Ziba Mir-Hosseini	Channel 4
	Gulag	Angus Macqueen	BBC Two
	True Stories: Kosovo - The Valley	Dan Reed	Channel 4
	Malcolm and Barbara - A Love Story	Paul Watson, Kim Horton	ITV
2001	True Stories: 100% White	Leo Regan	Channel 4
	The Boy David - The Return	Desmond Wilcox, Alex McCall	BBC One
	Endurance: Shackleton and the Antarctic	George Butler, Caroline Alexander, Jeremy Evans	Channel 4
	The Man Who Bought Mustique	Joseph Bullman, Vikram Jayanti	Channel 4
2002	Kelly and Her Sisters	Marilyn Gaunt	ITV
	True Stories: Battlecentre	Leo Regan, Roy Ackerman, Paul Van Dyck	Channel 4
	Ellen MacArthur: Sailing Through Heaven and Hell	Steve Robinson, Ellen MacArthur	BBC One
	When Louis Met The Hamiltons	David Mortimer, Gabe Solomon, Will Yapp, Louis Theroux	BBC One
2003	Feltham Sings	Roger Graef, Brian Hill	Channel 4
	9/11: The Tale of Two Towers	Michael Attwell	Five
	SAS Embassy Siege		BBC Two
	Thalidomide - Life at 40	Benetta Adamson	BBC Two
2004	One Life: Lager, Mum and Me	Todd Austin, Min Clough	BBC One
	My Family and Autism	Jenny Abbott, Fran Landsman	BBC Two
	Pompeii: The Last Day	Michael J. Mosley, Peter Nicholson, Ailsa Orr	BBC One
	Real Life: Being Terri	James Allen, Andrea Cornes, Ron Trickett	ITV
2005	The Orphans of Nkandla		BBC Four
	The Boy Whose Skin Fell Off	Patrick Collerton	Channel 4
	The F*ing Fulfords		Channel 4
	The Brighton Bomb		BBC One
2006	Make Me Normal	Brian Hill, Zac Beattie, Jonathan Smith	Channel 4
	Children Of Beslan		BBC Two
	Taxidermy: Stuff The World	Brian Hill, Elodie Gornall, Morgan Matthews	BBC Two
	The Real Sex Traffic	Simcha Jacobovici, Brian Woods, Ric Esther Bienstock	Channel 4

Best Single Documentary

Year	Title	Recipient(s)	Broadcaster
2007	Evicted	Brian Woods, Deborah Shipley, Jeremy Wales, Katy Sheppard	BBC One
	Breaking Up With The Joneses	Ursula Macfarlane, Saskia Wilson, Dave Nath, Gregor Lyon	Channel 4
	9/11: The Falling Man	Henry Singer, John Smithson, Sue Bourne, Julian Ware	Channel 4
	Rain in My Heart	Paul Watson	BBC Two
2008	Lie of the Land	Molly Dineen, Justin Krish, Catherine Bailey, Mark Frith	Channel 4
	Beautiful Young Minds	Morgan Matthews, Edmund Coulthard, Grant McKee, David Brindley	BBC Two
	Malcolm and Barbara: Love's Farewell	Paul Watson, Kim Horton	ITV
	Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives		BBC Four
2009	True Stories: Chosen	Brian Woods, Caroline Haydon, Chris Eley, Jimmy Edmonds	Channel 4
	The Fallen	Morgan Matthews, Elodie Gornall, Joby Gee, David Brindley	BBC Two
	A Boy Called Alex		Channel 4
	Thriller in Manila	John Dower, John Smithson, Elinor Day, Andrew MacKenzie	More4

2010s

Year	Title	Recipient(s)	Broadcaster
2010	Wounded	Sara Hardy, Jane Aldous, Gwyn Jones, Roger Courtiour	BBC One
	Katie: My Beautiful Face	Jessie Versluys, Dan Goldsack, Kate Collier, Samuel Santana	Channel 4
	Tsunami: Caught on Camera	Tom Brisley, Janice Sutherland, Sarah Swingler, Alex Kiehl	Channel 4
	Louis Theroux: A Place for Paedophiles	Louis Theroux, Emma Cooper, Guy King, Nick Mirsky	BBC Two
2011	Between Life and Death	Nick Holt, Meredith Chambers, Marina Parker, Ben Brown	BBC One
	The Dancing Boys of Afghanistan	Jamie Doran, Najibullah Quraishi, John Moffat, Mike Healy	More4
	Pink Saris	Kim Longinotto, Girjashanker Vahra, Amber Latif, Ed Stobart	More4
	Scenes from a Teenage Killing	Morgan Matthews, Ruth Kelly, Steve Hewlett, Michael Harrowes	BBC Four
2012	Terry Pratchett: Choosing to Die	Craig Hunter, Charlie Russell, Gary Scott, Terry Pratchett	BBC Two
	Cutting Edge - "We Need to Talk about Dad"	Peter Dale, Elizabeth Stopford	Channel 4
	The Fight of Their Lives	Gabriel Clarke, John McKenna	ITV
	9/11: The Day That Changed the World	Kate Botting, Brian Lapping, Talya Tibbon, Leslie Woodhead	ITV
2013	7/7: One Day in London	Ben Anthony, Sarah Hamilton, Rupert Houseman, Morgan Matthews	BBC Two
	Baka: A Cry from the Rainforest	Phil Agland	BBC Two
	Lucian Freud: Painted Life	Randall Wright, Denys Blakeway, Paul Binns, Patrick Duval	BBC Two
	Nina Conti – A Ventriloquist’s Story: Her Master’s Voice	Nina Conti, Riaz Meer, Michael O’Kelly, Tim Jordan	BBC Four
2014	The Murder Trial	Nick Holt, Marina Parker, Kate Barker, Ben Brown	Channel 4
	The Unspeakable Crime: Rape	Sara Hardy, Blue Ryan, Emma Hindley, Gwyn Jones	BBC One
	28 Up South Africa	Angus Gibson, Jemma Jupp, Jonathan Levi	ITV
	The Day Kennedy Died	Leslie Woodhead, Lorraine McKechnie, Sue Summers	ITV
2015	The Paedophile Hunter	Dan Reed, Mark Towns, Tom Costello	Channel 4
	Baby P: The Untold Story	Henry Singer, Jenny Saunders, Ben Stark, Simon Ford	BBC One
	Children of Syria	Robin Barnwell, Lyse Doucet, Bradley Manning, Lucy Hetherington	BBC Two
	The Miners Strike and Me		ITV
2016	My Son the Jihadi	Peter Beard, Richard Kerbaj, Simon MacMahon, Brian Woods	Channel 4
	Louis Theroux: Transgender Kids		BBC Two
	Bitter Lake		BBC iPlayer
	Life After Suicide	Angela Samata, Leo Burley, Jenny Williams, Fergus O’Brien	BBC One
2017	Hillsborough		BBC Two
	Behind Closed Doors	Anna Hall, Erica Gornall, Paddy Garrick, Brian Woods	BBC One
	How to Die: Simon's Choice	Rowan Deacon, Lizzie Kempton, Colin Barr, Ben Brown	BBC Two
	HyperNormalisation	Adam Curtis, Sandra Gorel, Victoria Jaye	BBC iPlayer
2018	Rio Ferdinand: Being Mum and Dad	Rio Ferdinand, Grant Best, Matt Smith, Martin Thompson	BBC One
	Chris Packham: Asperger's and Me	Charlie Russell, Lizzie Kempton, Tom Barry, Will Grayburn	BBC Two
	Louis Theroux, Talking to Anorexia	Louis Theroux, Ellena Wood, Simon McMahon, Peter Dale	BBC Two
	One Deadly Weekend in America	Sanjay Singhal, Ursula Macfarlane, Jon Alwen, Sarah Hunt	BBC Three
2019 ^[2]	Gun No. 6	James Newton, Zac Beattie, Georgina Cammalleri, Rupert Houseman	BBC Two
	Driven: The Billy Monger Story	Caroline Hawkins, Charlie Russell, Will Grayburn, Charlie Corbett	BBC Three
	My Dad, The Peace Deal and Me	Leo Burley, Patrick Kielty, Richard Bond, Paula Nightingale	BBC One
	School for Stammerers	Jill Worsley, Rachel Bloomfield	ITV

2020s

Year	Title	Recipient(s)	Broadcaster
2020 ^[3]	The Last Survivors		BBC Two
	The Abused	Barbie MacLaurin, Napoleon Stratogiannakis, Malcolm Brinkworth, Benedict Adams	Channel 5
	David Harewood: Psychosis and Me	Emma Hindley, Wendie Ottewill, Olivia Isaacs, David Harewood	BBC Two
	The Family Secret	Anna Hall, Sally Ogden, Luke Rothery, Brian Woods	Channel 4
2021 ^[4]	Locked In: Breaking the Silence (Storyville)	Xavier Alford, Colette Hodges, Sacha Mirzoeff, Poppy Goodheart	BBC Four
	American Murder: The Family Next Door	Jenny Popplewell, James Marsh, Jonathan Stadlen, Simon Barker	Netflix
	Anton Ferdinand: Football, Racism & Me	Sian Guerra, Jeremy Lee, Wendie Ottewill, James Ross	BBC One
	Surviving COVID		Channel 4
2022 ^[5]	My Childhood, My Country - 20 Years in Afghanistan	Phil Grabsky, Shoaib Sharifi, Amanda Wilkie, Clive Mattock	ITV
	9/11: Inside the President's War Room	Adam Wishart, Neil Grant, Serena Kennedy, Simon Finch	Apple TV+/BBC One
	Greenfell: The Untold Story	James Newton, Daisy Ayliffe, Emma Lysaght, Kirsty Cunningham, Jessie Versluys	Channel 4
	Nail Bomber: Manhunt		Netflix
2023 ^[6]^[7]	The Real Mo Farah	Leo Burley, Hannah Richards, Rick Barker, Marvyn Benoit, Shona Thompson, Zad Rogers	BBC One
	Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes	James Jones, Darren Kemp, Rupert Houseman, Serhiy Solodko, Joanna Marshall, Sasha Odynova	Sky Documentaries
	Escape from Kabul Airport	Jamie Roberts, William Grayburn, Dan Reed	BBC Two
	Our Falklands War (Frontline)	Guy King, Saskia Rusher, Simon McMahon, Zac Beattie, Guy Meachin, Libby Taylor	BBC Two
2024 ^[8]	Ellie Simmonds: Finding My Secret Family	Jasleen Sethi, David Thompson, Colleen Flynn, Kathryn Jein, Nick Underhill	ITV1
	David Holmes: The Boy Who Lived	Dan Hartley, Kevin Konak, Simon Chinn, Jonathan Chinn, Vanessa Davies, Amy Stares	Sky Documentaries
	Hatton	Daniel Dewsbury, Paul Yoshida, Sam Bergson, Ian Davies, John McKenna	Sky Documentaries
	Vjeran Tomic: The Spider-Man of Paris	Jamie Roberts, Dan Reed	Netflix

Note: The series that don't have recipients on the tables had Production team credited as recipients for the award or nomination.

References

^ "Rules and Guidelines" (PDF). British Academy of Film and Television Arts. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2021-01-24. Retrieved 2021-03-06.
^ "Nominations announced: Virgin Media British Academy Television Awards and British Academy Television Craft Awards in 2019". www.bafta.org. 2019-03-28. Retrieved 2021-03-05.
^ Kanter, Jake (2020-07-31). "BAFTA TV Awards Winners: Night Of Surprises, As 'Chernobyl' & 'The End Of The F***ing World' Take Two Prizes Each". Deadline. Retrieved 2021-03-05.
^ "BAFTA TV 2021: Nominations for the Virgin Media British Academy Television Awards and British Academy Television Craft Awards". www.bafta.org. 2021-04-28. Retrieved 2021-04-28.
^ "Bafta TV awards 2022: full list of nominations". The Guardian. 30 March 2022. Retrieved 30 March 2022.
^ Ritman, Alex (22 March 2023). "BAFTA TV Awards: 'This is Going to Hurt,' 'The Responder' Lead Pack of Nominees". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on 22 March 2023. Retrieved 22 March 2023.
^ "Bafta TV awards 2023: the full list of winners". Guardian. 14 May 2023. Retrieved 15 May 2023.
^ Szalai, Georg (March 20, 2024). "BAFTA TV Awards: 'The Crown,' 'Black Mirror' Lead Nominations". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved March 24, 2024.

External links

List of winners at the British Academy of Film and Television Arts

[baftarules-1] "Rules and Guidelines" (PDF). British Academy of Film and Television Arts. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2021-01-24. Retrieved 2021-03-06.

[2] "Nominations announced: Virgin Media British Academy Television Awards and British Academy Television Craft Awards in 2019". www.bafta.org. 2019-03-28. Retrieved 2021-03-05.

[3] Kanter, Jake (2020-07-31). "BAFTA TV Awards Winners: Night Of Surprises, As 'Chernobyl' & 'The End Of The F***ing World' Take Two Prizes Each". Deadline. Retrieved 2021-03-05.

[4] "BAFTA TV 2021: Nominations for the Virgin Media British Academy Television Awards and British Academy Television Craft Awards". www.bafta.org. 2021-04-28. Retrieved 2021-04-28.

[5] "Bafta TV awards 2022: full list of nominations". The Guardian. 30 March 2022. Retrieved 30 March 2022.

[6] Ritman, Alex (22 March 2023). "BAFTA TV Awards: 'This is Going to Hurt,' 'The Responder' Lead Pack of Nominees". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on 22 March 2023. Retrieved 22 March 2023.

[7] "Bafta TV awards 2023: the full list of winners". Guardian. 14 May 2023. Retrieved 15 May 2023.

[8] Szalai, Georg (March 20, 2024). "BAFTA TV Awards: 'The Crown,' 'Black Mirror' Lead Nominations". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved March 24, 2024.

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