British Academy Television Award for Best Specialist Factual
British Academy Television Awards · 92 nominations across 23 ceremonies · 23 wins
BAFTA TV Awards 2026 · 2026
- Winner Simon Schama: The Road to Auschwitz
- Nominee Belsen: What They Found
- Nominee Vietnam: The War That Changed America
- Nominee Surviving Black Hawk Down
BAFTA TV Awards 2025 · 2025
- Winner Atomic People
- Nominee Children of the Cult
- Nominee Billy and Molly: An Otter Love Story
- Nominee Miners' Strike 1984: The Battle for Britain
BAFTA TV Awards 2024 · 2024
- Winner White Nanny, Black Child
- Nominee The Enfield Poltergeist
- Nominee Forced Out
- Nominee Chimp Empire
BAFTA TV Awards 2023 · 2023
- Winner Russia 1985–1999: TraumaZone
- Nominee AIDS: The Unheard Tapes
- Nominee The Green Planet
- Nominee How to Survive a Dictator with Munya Chawawa
BAFTA TV Awards 2022 · 2022
BAFTA TV Awards 2021 · 2021
- Winner The Surgeon's Cut
- Nominee Extinction: The Facts
- Nominee Putin: A Russian Spy Story
- Nominee The Rise of the Murdoch Dynasty
BAFTA TV Awards 2020 · 2020
- Winner Yorkshire Ripper Files: A Very British Crime Story
- Nominee Thatcher
- Nominee 8 Days: To the Moon and Back
- Nominee Seven Worlds, One Planet
BAFTA TV Awards 2019 · 2019
- Winner Suffragettes with Lucy Worsley
- Nominee Bros: After the Screaming Stops
- Nominee Superkids: Breaking Away from Care
- Nominee Grayson Perry: Rites of Passage
BAFTA TV Awards 2018 · 2018
- Winner Basquiat: Rage to Riches
- Nominee Blue Planet II
- Nominee Blitz: the Bombs That Changed Britain
- Nominee Elizabeth I’s Secret Agents
BAFTA TV Awards 2017 · 2017
- Winner Planet Earth II
- Nominee Grayson Perry's All Man
- Nominee Attenborough's Life That Glows
- Nominee Alan Bennett's Diaries
BAFTA TV Awards 2016 · 2016
- Winner Britain's Forgotten Slave Owners
- Nominee The Hunt
- Nominee Rudolf Nureyev
- Nominee Grayson Perry's Dream House
BAFTA TV Awards 2015 · 2015
- Winner Grayson Perry: Who Are You?
- Nominee Our Gay Wedding: The Musical
- Nominee David Attenborough's Conquest of the Skies 3D
- Nominee The Great War: The People's Story
BAFTA TV Awards 2014 · 2014
BAFTA TV Awards 2013 · 2013
- Winner All In The Best Possible Taste with Grayson Perry
- Nominee The Plane Crash
- Nominee The Secret History of Our Streets
- Nominee The Plot to Bring Down Britain's Planes
BAFTA TV Awards 2012 · 2012
- Winner Mummifying Alan: Egypt's Last Secret
- Nominee Wonders of the Universe
- Nominee Frozen Planet
- Nominee British Masters
BAFTA TV Awards 2011 · 2011
- Winner Flying Monsters
- Nominee Pompeii: Life and Death in a Roman Town
- Nominee Alan Bennett and the Habit of Art (The Making Of)
- Nominee Human Planet
BAFTA TV Awards 2010 · 2010
- Winner Inside Nature's Giants
- Nominee Chemistry: A Volatile History
- Nominee Art of Russia
- Nominee Yellowstone
BAFTA TV Awards 2009 · 2009
BAFTA TV Awards 2007 · 2007
- Winner Nuremberg: Goering's Last Stand
- Nominee Munich: Mossad's Revenge
- Nominee Planet Earth
- Nominee Simon Schama's Power of Art
BAFTA TV Awards 2006 · 2006
- Winner Holocaust, a Memorial Film From Auschwitz
- Nominee Life in the Undergrowth
- Nominee No Direction Home
- Nominee The Boy with the Incredible Brain
BAFTA TV Awards 2005 · 2005
- Winner Dunkirk
- Nominee D-Day: The Ultimate Conflict
- Nominee Howard Goodall's 20th Century Greats
- Nominee D-Day
BAFTA TV Awards 2002 · 2002
- Winner Arena
- Nominee The 1940s House
- Nominee Walk On By: The Story of Popular Song
- Nominee Henry VIII
BAFTA TV Awards 2001 · 2001
- Winner Howard Goodall's Big Bangs
- Nominee A History of Britain by Simon Schama
- Nominee Elizabeth
- Nominee Arena: Wisconsin Death Trip