British Academy Film Award for Best Documentary 1987
40th British Academy Film Awards · held March 22, 1987 · 6 nominees
- Winner Shoah · Claude Lanzmann
- Nominee British Cinema: Personal View A Turnip Head's Guide to the British Cinema · Alan Parker
- Nominee Equinox: Prisoner of Consciousness
- Nominee Forty Minutes: The Fishing Party · Paul Watson
- Nominee Omnibus: The Mission
- Nominee Viewpoint 86: Afghanistan: The Agony of a Nation · Sandy Gall