British Academy Television Award for Best Single Documentary
British Academy Television Awards · 120 nominations across 30 ceremonies · 30 wins
BAFTA TV Awards 2026 · 2026
- Winner Grenfell: Uncovered
- Nominee Unforgotten: The Bradford City Fire
- Nominee One Day in Southport
- Nominee Louis Theroux: The Settlers
BAFTA TV Awards 2025 · 2025
- Winner Ukraine: Enemy in the Woods
- Nominee Tell Them You Love Me
- Nominee Undercover: Exposing the Far Right
- Nominee Hell Jumper
BAFTA TV Awards 2024 · 2024
- Winner Ellie Simmonds: Finding My Secret Family
- Nominee Hatton
- Nominee David Holmes: The Boy Who Lived
- Nominee Vjeran Tomic: The Spider-Man of Paris
BAFTA TV Awards 2023 · 2023
- Winner The Real Mo Farah
- Nominee Escape from Kabul Airport
- Nominee Frontline
- Nominee Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes
BAFTA TV Awards 2022 · 2022
- Winner My Childhood, My Country: 20 Years in Afghanistan
- Nominee Grenfell: The Untold Story
- Nominee Nail Bomber: Manhunt
- Nominee 9/11: Inside the President's War Room
BAFTA TV Awards 2021 · 2021
BAFTA TV Awards 2020 · 2020
- Winner The Last Survivors
- Nominee David Harewood: Psychosis and Me
- Nominee The Family Secret
- Nominee The Abused
BAFTA TV Awards 2019 · 2019
- Winner Gun No. 6
- Nominee School for Stammers
- Nominee My Dad, The Peace Deal and Me
- Nominee Driven: The Billy Monger Story
BAFTA TV Awards 2018 · 2018
- Winner Rio Ferdinand: Being Mum and Dad
- Nominee Chris Packham: Asperger’s and Me
- Nominee Louis Theroux, Talking to Anorexia
- Nominee One Deadly Weekend in America
BAFTA TV Awards 2017 · 2017
- Winner Hillsborough
- Nominee HyperNormalisation
- Nominee Behind Closed Doors
- Nominee How to Die: Simon's Choice
BAFTA TV Awards 2016 · 2016
- Winner My Son the Jihadi
- Nominee Life After Suicide
- Nominee Bitter Lake
- Nominee Louis Theroux: Transgender Kids
BAFTA TV Awards 2015 · 2015
- Winner The Paedophile Hunter
- Nominee Children of Syria
- Nominee Baby P: The Untold Story
- Nominee The Miners Strike and Me
BAFTA TV Awards 2014 · 2014
- Winner The Murder Trial
- Nominee The Day Kennedy Died
- Nominee Up
- Nominee The Unspeakable Crime: Rape
BAFTA TV Awards 2013 · 2013
- Winner 7/7: One Day in London
- Nominee Baka: A Cry from the Rainforest
- Nominee Lucian Freud: Painted Life
- Nominee Nina Conti – A Ventriloquist's Story: Her Master's Voice
BAFTA TV Awards 2012 · 2012
- Winner Terry Pratchett: Choosing to Die
- Nominee We Need To Talk About Dad
- Nominee The Fight of Their Lives
- Nominee 9/11: The Day That Changed the World
BAFTA TV Awards 2011 · 2011
- Winner Between Life and Death
- Nominee The Dancing Boys of Afghanistan
- Nominee Pink Saris
- Nominee Scenes From a Teenage Killing
BAFTA TV Awards 2010 · 2010
- Winner Wounded
- Nominee Louis Theroux: A Place for Paedophiles
- Nominee Tsunami: Caught on Camera
- Nominee Katie: My Beautiful Face
BAFTA TV Awards 2009 · 2009
- Winner True Stories: Chosen
- Nominee A Boy Called Alex
- Nominee The Fallen
- Nominee Chosen
- Nominee Thriller in Manila
BAFTA TV Awards 2008 · 2008
- Winner Lie of the Land
- Nominee Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives
- Nominee Beautiful Young Minds
- Nominee Malcolm and Barbara: Love's Farewell
BAFTA TV Awards 2007 · 2007
- Winner Evicted
- Nominee 9/11: The Falling Man
- Nominee Breaking Up with the Joneses
- Nominee Rain in My Heart
BAFTA TV Awards 2006 · 2006
- Winner Make Me Normal
- Nominee The Real Sex Traffic
- Nominee Children of Beslan
- Nominee Taxidermy: Stuff the World
BAFTA TV Awards 2005 · 2005
- Winner The Orphans of Nkandla
- Nominee The Boy Whose Skin Fell Off
- Nominee The F***ing Fulfords
- Nominee The Brighton Bomb
BAFTA TV Awards 2004 · 2004
- Winner One Life: Lager, Mum And Me
- Nominee Pompeii – The Last Day
- Nominee Real Life: Being Terri
- Nominee My Family and Autism
BAFTA TV Awards 2003 · 2003
- Winner Feltham Sings
- Nominee Thalidomide - Life at 40
- Nominee 9/11: The Tale of Two Towers
- Nominee SAS Embassy Siege
BAFTA TV Awards 2002 · 2002
- Winner Kelly and Her Sisters
- Nominee True Stories – Battlecentre
- Nominee When Louis Met The Hamiltons
- Nominee Ellen MacArthur
BAFTA TV Awards 2001 · 2001
- Winner 100% White
- Nominee The Boy David - The Return
- Nominee The Man Who Bought Mustique
- Nominee Endurance: Shackleton and the Antarctic
BAFTA TV Awards 2000 · 2000
- Winner Divorce Iranian Style
- Nominee Malcolm and Barbara - A Love Story
- Nominee Gulag
- Nominee True Stories – Kosovo - The Valley
BAFTA TV Awards 1999 · 1999
- Winner After Lockerbie
- Nominee Tongue Tied
- Nominee Up
- Nominee Mir Mortals
BAFTA TV Awards 1998 · 1998
- Winner True Stories
- Nominee Network First
- Nominee Inside Story– Nazi Gold
- Nominee Wildlife (for "Polar Bear (Special)")
BAFTA TV Awards 1996 · 1996
- Winner Russian Invasion of Chechnya
- Nominee Anne Frank Remembered
- Nominee The Dying Rooms