Logie Award for Most Outstanding Factual or Documentary Program

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[]

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	[2]
1966	Birth		[4]
1967	Project 66	Nine Network
1969	The Talgai Skull	ABC
1970	Chequerboard	ABC	[3]
1971	Four Corners	ABC
1973	Shell's Australia	Seven Network
1974	Wild Australia	ABC	[8]
1975	Billy and Percy	ABC
1976	A Big Country	ABC
1977	Australians At War	Network Ten
1978	In the Wild	ABC	[9]
1979	A Big Country	ABC
1980	This Fabulous Century	Seven Network
1981	A Big Country	ABC
1982	A Matter of Chance	ABC	[10]
1983	John Laws' World	Network Ten
1984	Ash Wednesday
1985	Frontline Afghanistan	ABC
1986	Sweat of the Sun, Tears of the Moon	ABC	[11]

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	[11]
	The Greatest Gift(tied)	Nine Network
1988	Suzi's Story	Network Ten
1989	Nature of Australia	ABC
1990	Ladies in Line	ABC	[12]
1991	The Chelmsford Scream	Nine Network
1992	The Time of Your Life	ABC
1993	Cop It Sweet	ABC
	Faces in the Mob(tied)	ABC
1994	Labor in Power	ABC	[6]
1995	Fifty Years of Silence	ABC
1996	Untold Desires	SBS
1997	Somebody Now – Nobody's Children Seven Years On	ABC
1998	Rats in the Ranks	ABC	[13]
	The Big House	ABC
	The Call of Kakadu	ABC
	Mabo: Life of An Island Man	ABC
	Tell My Kids I'm Sorry	Seven Network
1999	Miracle at Sea: The Rescue of Tony Bullimore	ABC	[14]
	Afrika: Cape Town to Cairo	ABC
	Exile In Sarajevo	SBS
	Mabo: Rite of Passage	SBS
2000	Facing the Demons	ABC	[15]
	A Race to Survive	ABC
	Sierra Leone	SBS
	The Keating Millions	Nine Network
2001	A Death in the Family	SBS	[16]
	The Diplomat	SBS
	The Last Warriors	Seven Network
	The Track	ABC
2002	Australians at War	ABC	[17]
	100 Years	ABC
	Drama School	Seven Network
	Journeys to the Ends of the Earth	ABC
	Long Way to the Top	ABC
	The Ties That Bind	ABC
2003	Australian Story	ABC	[18]
	Black Chicks Talking	ABC
	Gough Whitlam: In His Own Words	SBS
	Gulpilil: One Red Blood	ABC
	Rainbow Bird and Monster Man	SBS
2004	Dying to Leave	SBS	[19]
	Beyond Bronte	Nine Network
	From Korea with Love	SBS
	Love is in the Air	ABC
	Man Made: The Story of Two Men and a Baby	SBS
2005	The President vs David Hicks	SBS	[20]
	The Last Voices From Heaven Parts 1 & 2	Foxtel
	Moulin Rouge Girls	ABC
	Stories From a Children's Hospital: Chloe's Story	ABC
	Tug of Love	SBS
2006	He's Coming South: The Attack on Sydney Harbour	The History Channel	[21]
	The Colony	SBS
	Divorce Stories	SBS
	Frank Hurley: The Man Who Made History	ABC
	Revealing Gallipoli	ABC
2007	Who Killed Dr Bogle and Mrs Chandler?	ABC	[22]
	The Battle of Long Tan	The History Channel
	The Bridge at Midnight Trembles	SBS
	The Floating Brothel	ABC
	Life at 1	ABC
2008	Constructing Australia: The Bridge	ABC	[23]
	Captain Cook: Obsession and Discovery	ABC
	Inside Australia: My Brother Vinnie	SBS
	The Sounds of Aus	ABC
	The Ultimate Donation	Network Ten
2009	First Australians	SBS	[24]
	Beyond Kokoda	The History Channel
	The Oasis: Australia's Homeless Youth	ABC
	Schapelle Corby: The Hidden Truth	Nine Network
	The Howard Years	ABC
2010	Law and Disorder	SBS	[25]
	Bombora: The Story of Australian Surfing	ABC
	Bondi Rescue	Network Ten
	Darwin's Brave New World	ABC
	Last Chance Saloon	SBS
2011	Trishna & Krishna: The Quest For Separate Lives	Seven Network	[26]
	Bondi Rescue	Network Ten
	Miracle in the Storm	ABC
	RPA	Nine Network
	Such is Life: The Troubled Times of Ben Cousins	Seven Network
2012	Go Back To Where You Came From	SBS	[27]
	Leaky Boat	ABC
	Mrs Carey's Concert	ABC
	Outback Fight Club	SBS
	Tony Robinson Explores Australia	The History Channel
2013	Bondi Rescue	Network Ten	[28]
	Bondi Vet	Network Ten
	Border Security: Australia's Front Line	Seven Network
	RPA	Nine Network
	Who Do You Think You Are?	SBS
2014	Kings Cross ER: St Vincent's Hospital	Crime & Investigation Network	[29]
	Desert War	ABC
	Dirty Business	SBS
	Jabbed	SBS
	Redesign My Brain	ABC
2015	First Contact	SBS	[30]
	Brilliant Creatures	ABC
	Changing Minds	ABC
	Coast Australia	The History Channel
	The War That Changed Us	ABC
2017	Conviction	ABC	[31]
	Deep Water: The Real Story	SBS
	Gogglebox Australia	Lifestyle Channel / Network Ten
	Keeping Australia Alive	ABC
	Todd Sampson's Body Hack	Network Ten
2018	War on Waste	ABC	[32]
	Michael Hutchence: The Last Rockstar	Seven Network
	Struggle Street	SBS
	The Queen & Zak Grieve	Crime & Investigation
	You Can't Ask That	ABC
2019	Ron Iddles: The Good Cop	Foxtel
	Employable Me	ABC
	Exposed: The Case Of Keli Lane	ABC
	Taboo	Network Ten
	The Pacific – In The Wake Of Captain Cook With Sam Neill	Foxtel

See also[]

• Logie Award for Most Popular Factual Program

References[]

External links[]

• Official website