Logie Award for Most Outstanding Factual or Documentary Program

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Logie Award for Most Outstanding Factual or Documentary Program
CountryAustralia
Presented byTV Week
First awarded1965
Currently held byThe Australian Wars (2023)
Websitewww.tvweeklogieawards.com.au

The Silver Logie for Most Outstanding Factual or Documentary Program is an award presented annually at the Australian TV Week Logie Awards. The award is given to recognise an outstanding Australian factual, observational or documentary program. The winner and nominees of this award are chosen by television industry juries.[1]

It was first awarded at the 7th Annual TV Week Logie Awards ceremony, held in 1965 as Best Documentary Series (1967, 1973-1974, 1976-1986).[2][3] The award was renamed many times in subsequent ceremonies; Best Documentary (1966, 1969),[4][3] Best Australian Documentary Series (1970),[3] Best Documentary/Current Affairs Series (1971),[4][3] Best Dramatised Documentary Series (1975). The nominees in the Best Documentary category were either single documentaries or documentary series. This award category was eliminated in 1968 and 1972.

At the 29th Annual TV Week Logie Awards in 1987, the industry voted awards for documentaries was renamed Most Outstanding Single Documentary or Documentary Series until 1993.[5] It has also been known as Most Outstanding Documentary Single or Series (1994-1995),[5] Most Outstanding Documentary (1996–1999, 2001, 2009),[6] and Most Outstanding Documentary or Special Report in a Public Affairs Program (2000), Most Outstanding Documentary Series (2002-2006)[7] and Most Outstanding Documentary or Documentary Series (2007-2008), Most Outstanding Factual Program (2010-2015). This award category was eliminated in 2016 and returned in 2017 as the Most Outstanding Factual or Documentary Program.

Winners and nominees[edit]

Key Meaning
Indicates the winning program

Listed below are the winners of the award for each year for Best Documentary Series.

Year Program Network Ref
1965 Project 64
Nine Network
1966 Birth
1967 Project 66
Nine Network
1969 The Talgai Skull
1970 Chequerboard
1971 Four Corners
1973 Shell's Australia
Seven Network
1974 Wild Australia
1975 Billy and Percy
1976 A Big Country
1977 Australians At War
Network Ten
1978 In the Wild
1979 A Big Country
1980 This Fabulous Century
Seven Network
1981 A Big Country
1982 A Matter of Chance
1983 John Laws' World‡
Network Ten
1984 Ash Wednesday‡
1985 Frontline Afghanistan
1986 Sweat of the Sun, Tears of the Moon

Listed below are the winners of the award for each year for Most Outstanding Factual or Documentary Series.

Year Program Network Ref
1987 Handle with Care‡(tied)
Network Ten
The Greatest Gift‡(tied)
Nine Network
1988 Suzi's Story
1989 Nature of Australia
1990 Ladies in Line
1991 The Chelmsford Scream
1992 The Time of Your Life
1993 Cop It Sweet
Faces in the Mob‡(tied)
1994 Labor in Power
1995 Fifty Years of Silence
1996 Untold Desires
1997 Somebody Now – Nobody's Children Seven Years On
1998 Rats in the Ranks
The Big House
The Call of Kakadu
Mabo: Life of An Island Man
Tell My Kids I'm Sorry
Seven Network
1999 Miracle at Sea: The Rescue of Tony Bullimore
Afrika: Cape Town to Cairo
Exile In Sarajevo
Mabo: Rite of Passage
2000 Facing the Demons
A Race to Survive
Sierra Leone
The Keating Millions
2001 A Death in the Family
The Diplomat
The Last Warriors
The Track
2002 Australians at War
100 Years
Drama School
Journeys to the Ends of the Earth
Long Way to the Top
The Ties That Bind
2003 Australian Story
Black Chicks Talking
Gough Whitlam: In His Own Words
Gulpilil: One Red Blood
Rainbow Bird and Monster Man
2004 Dying to Leave
Beyond Bronte
From Korea with Love
Love is in the Air
Man Made: The Story of Two Men and a Baby
2005 The President vs David Hicks
The Last Voices From Heaven Parts 1 & 2
Moulin Rouge Girls
Stories From a Children's Hospital: Chloe's Story
Tug of Love
2006 He's Coming South: The Attack on Sydney Harbour
The Colony
Divorce Stories
Frank Hurley: The Man Who Made History
Revealing Gallipoli
2007 Who Killed Dr Bogle and Mrs Chandler?
The Battle of Long Tan
The Bridge at Midnight Trembles
The Floating Brothel
Life at 1
2008 Constructing Australia: The Bridge
Captain Cook: Obsession and Discovery
Inside Australia: My Brother Vinnie
The Sounds of Aus
The Ultimate Donation
2009 First Australians
Beyond Kokoda
The Oasis: Australia's Homeless Youth
Schapelle Corby: The Hidden Truth
The Howard Years
2010 Law and Disorder
Bombora: The Story of Australian Surfing
Bondi Rescue
Darwin's Brave New World
Last Chance Saloon
2011 Trishna & Krishna: The Quest For Separate Lives
Bondi Rescue
Miracle in the Storm
RPA
Such is Life: The Troubled Times of Ben Cousins
2012 Go Back To Where You Came From
Leaky Boat
Mrs Carey's Concert
Outback Fight Club
Tony Robinson Explores Australia
2013 Bondi Rescue
Bondi Vet
Border Security: Australia's Front Line
RPA
Who Do You Think You Are?
2014 Kings Cross ER: St Vincent's Hospital
Desert War
Dirty Business
Jabbed
Redesign My Brain
2015 First Contact
Brilliant Creatures
Changing Minds
Coast Australia
The War That Changed Us
2017 Conviction
Deep Water: The Real Story
Gogglebox Australia
Keeping Australia Alive
Todd Sampson's Body Hack
2018 War on Waste
Michael Hutchence: The Last Rockstar
Struggle Street
The Queen & Zak Grieve
You Can't Ask That
2019 Ron Iddles: The Good Cop
Foxtel
Employable Me
Exposed: The Case Of Keli Lane
Taboo
The Pacific – In The Wake Of Captain Cook With Sam Neill
Foxtel
2022 Incarceration Nation
NITV
Burning
Amazon Prime Video
Firestarter – The Story of Bangarra
See What You Made Me Do
SBS
The School That Tried To End Racism
ABC
2023 The Australian Wars
SBS
Alone Australia
SBS
Australia’s Wild Odyssey
Old People’s Home For Teenagers
Revealed: Trafficked
Stan
Todd Sampson’s Mirror Mirror: Love & Hate

See also[edit]

References[edit]

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  5. ^ a b "1990–1993 Logie Awards". Australiantelevision.net. Retrieved 15 April 2014.
  6. ^ a b "1994–1997 Logie Awards". Australiantelevision.net. Retrieved 15 April 2014.
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  13. ^ "1998 Logie Awards". Australiantelevision.net. Archived from the original on 19 October 2013. Retrieved 15 April 2014.
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  15. ^ "2000 Logie Awards". Australiantelevision.net. Retrieved 15 April 2014.
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  26. ^ "2011 Logie Awards". Australiantelevision.net. Retrieved 15 April 2014.
  27. ^ "2012 Logie Awards". Australiantelevision.net. Retrieved 15 April 2014.
  28. ^ "2013 Logie Awards". Australiantelevision.net. Retrieved 15 April 2014.
  29. ^ "2014 Logie Awards". Australiantelevision.net. Retrieved 15 April 2014.
  30. ^ "2015 Logie Awards". Australiantelevision.net. Retrieved 9 December 2018.
  31. ^ "2017 Logie Awards". Australiantelevision.net. Retrieved 9 December 2018.
  32. ^ "2018 Logie Awards". Australiantelevision.net. Retrieved 9 December 2018.
  33. ^ "2019 Logie Awards". Australiantelevision.net. Retrieved 19 June 2023.
  34. ^ "2022 Logie Awards". Australiantelevision.net. Retrieved 19 June 2023.

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