Writers Guild of America Award for Television: Documentary Script – Other Than Current Events

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Writers Guild of America Award for Television: Documentary Script – Other Than Current Events
Awarded forOutstanding Writing in Documentaries – Other Than Current Events
CountryUnited States
Presented byWriters Guild of America
First awarded1987
Currently held byGene Tempest for "Citizen Hearst, Part One" (American Experience) - 2021
Websitewww.wga.org

The Writers Guild of America Award for Television: Documentary Script – Other Than Current Events is an award presented by the Writers Guild of America to the best writing in a documentary about topics other than current events. It was first awarded at the 40th Writers Guild of America Awards, being the program The Grizzlies the inaugural winner of the category.

Winners and nominees

1980s

Year Program Episode Writer(s) Network Ref.
1987
(40th)
The Grizzlies Theodore Thomas PBS
1988
(41st)
George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey George Stevens Jr. ABC
1989
(42nd)
American Experience "Mr. Sears' Catalogue" Edward Gray and Mark Obenhaus PBS

1990s

Year Program Episode Writer(s) Network Ref.
1990
(43rd)
No award given
1991
(44th)
1992
(45th)
American Experience "LBJ" David Grubin PBS
American Experience "Duke Ellington: Reminiscing in Tempo" Robert Levi and Geoffrey C. Ward PBS
1993
(46th)
Degenerate Art David Grubin PBS
American Experience "The Donner Party" Ric Burns
1994
(47th)
American Experience "America and the Holocaust: Deceit and Indifference" Marty Ostrow PBS
1995
(48th)
American Experience "The Way West" Ric Burns PBS
Frederick Douglas: When the Lion Wrote History Steve Fayer and Theodore Thomas PBS
American Experience "FDR: Part 1" David Grubin
"The Battle of the Bulge: World War II's Deadliest Battle" Thomas Lennon and Mark Zwonitzer
1996
(49th)
Paving the Way Susan Kim PBS [1]
Idols of the Game "Inventing the All-American" Robert Lipsyte TBS
American Experience "The Battle Over Citizen Kane" Thomas Lennon and Richard Ben Cramer PBS
"Chicago 1968" Chana Gazit
American Masters "Rod Serling: Submitted for Your Approval" John F. Goff and Thomas Wagner
Frontline "Angel on Death Row" Ben Loeterman
1997
(50th)
Investigative Reports "The Secret White House Tapes" Carol L. Fleisher and William Doyle A&E [2]
American Experience "New York Underground" Elena Mannes and L. Franklin DeVine PBS
The West "One Sky Above Us" Geoffrey C. Ward and Dayton Duncan
The Real Las Vegas "Las Vegas: Gamble in the Desert" Susan Berman, Jim Milio, Melissa Jo Peltier and Paul S. Kaufman A&E
1998
(51st)
American Experience "Truman" David Grubin PBS [3]
Lusitania "Murder on the Atlantic" Kelly McPherson and Melissa Jo Peltier
American Experience "Reagan: Part I" Adriana Bosch PBS
"Surviving the Dust Bowl" Chana Gazit
A Science Odyssey "In Search of Ourselves" Alice Markowitz
Sea Tales "The Doomed Voyage of the St. Louis" Christopher Meindl and Melissa Jo Peltier
The Irish in America: Long Journey Home "Long Journey Home" Thomas N. Brown and Thomas Lennon
1999
(52nd)
American Experience "Hoover Dam" Stephen Stept PBS [4]
American Experience "Meltdown at Three Mile Island" Chana Gazit PBS
Nova "Lost at Sea - The Search for Longitude"
Founding Fathers Melissa Jo Peltier and Max M. Fletcher History Channel
Margaret Sanger Bruce Alfred and Michelle Ferrari
War Dogs: America's Forgotten Heroes Tim Prokop Discovery Channel

2000s

Year Program Episode Writer(s) Network Ref.
2000
(53rd)
American Experience "George Wallace: Settin' the Woods on Fire" Steve Fayer and Daniel McCabe and Paul Stekler PBS [5]
Without Lying Down: Frances Marion and the Power of Women in Hollywood Bridget Terry and Cari Beauchamp TMC
Frontline "Apocalypse!" William Cran and Ben Loeterman PBS
Culture Shock "Born to Trouble: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" Jill Janows and Leslie Lee
American Masters "Hitchcock, Selznick & the End of Hollywood" Michael Epstein
2001
(54th)
American Experience "Scottsboro: An American Tragedy" Barak Goodman PBS [6]
Nova "Hitler's Lost Sub" Rushmore DeNooyer PBS
American Experience "Stephen Foster" Ken Emerson and Randy MacLowry PBS
American Masters "Finding Lucy" Thomas Wagner
Frontline "Medicating Kidgs" Martin Smith
Jazz "Dedicated to Class" Geoffrey C. Ward
2002
(55th)
American Experience "Monkey Trial" Christine Lesiak PBS [7]
A Day in their Lives "Empire State Building Ironworker" Peter Hankoff History Channel
Founding Fathers "Evolution of a Revolution" Kelly McPherson, Melissa Jo Peltier and Allison MacEwan
America’s First River "Part One" Tom Spain PBS
2003
(56th)
American Experience "The Murder of Emmett Till" Marcia Smith PBS [8]
Nova: The Elegant Universe "Welcome To the 11th Dimension" Julia Cort and Joseph McMaster PBS
"The String's the Thing" Joseph McMaster
American Experience "Seabiscuit" Michelle Ferrari
Becoming American: The Chinese Experience "Part II" Thomas Lennon, Mi Ling Tsui and Bill Moyers
Frontline "Cyber War!" Michael Kirk
2004
(57th)
American Experience "The Fight" Barak Goodman PBS [9]
Broadway: The American Musical "Oh, What a Beautiful Morning" JoAnn Young PBS
American Experience "Reconstruction" Llewellyn M. Smith and Elizabeth Deane
"RFK" David Grubin
"Emma Goldman" Mel Bucklin
They Made America "Revolutionaries" Carl Charlson and Harold Evans
2005
(58th)
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson Geoffrey C. Ward PBS [10]
Shot from the Sky Tim Prokop A&E
American Experience "Kinsey" Barak Goodman PBS
"The Massie Affair" Mark Zwonitzer
"Fidel Castro" Adriana Bosch
2006
(59th)
Marie Antoinette David Grubin PBS [11]
American Experience "The Boy in the Bubble" Barak Goodman PBS
"The Alaska Pipeline" Mark Davis
"John & Abigail Adams" Elizabeth Deane
"Eugene O'Neill: A Documentary Film" Arthur Gelb, Barbara Gelb and Ric Burns
2007
(60th)
Independent Lens "Billy Strayhorn: Lush Life" Robert Levi and Robert Seidman PBS [12]
Nova "Forgotten Genius" Stephen Lyons and Llewellyn M. Smith PBS
American Experience "Alexander Hamilton" Ronald Blumer
The War "Episode Four: Pride of Our Nation" Geoffrey C. Ward
2008
(61st)
Nova "Secrets of the Parthenon" Gary Glassman PBS [13]
Andrew Jackson: Good, Evil, and the Presidency Carl Byker PBS
American Experience "Kit Carson" Michelle Ferrari
The Truth about Cancer Linda Garmon
The Jewish Americans "The Best of Times, The Worst of Times (1924-1945)" David Grubin
2009
(62nd)
American Experience "The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer" Marcela Gaviria and Martin Smith PBS [14]
Soul of a People: Writing America's Story David A. Taylor, Olive Emma Bucklin and Andrea Kalin Smithsonian Channel
American Experience "The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln" Barak Goodman PBS
"We Shall Remain: Trail of Tears" Mark Zwonitzer
"We Shall Remain: Tecumseh's Vision" Ric Burns
The National Parks: America's Best Idea Dayton Duncan

2010s

Year Program Episode Writer(s) Network Ref.
2010
(63rd)
American Experience "Wyatt Earp" Ron Rapley PBS [15]
Baseball: The Tenth Inning "Episode 1" David McMahon, Lynn Novick and Ken Burns PBS
American Experience "Dolley Madison" Ronald H. Blumer
Nova "Hubble’s Amazing Rescue" Rushmore DeNooyer
"Riddles of the Sphinx" Gary Glassman
Bill Moyers Journal "LBJ’s Path to War" Bill Moyers and Michael Winship
2011
(64th)
Frontline "Wiki Secrets" Marcela Gaviria and Martin Smith PBS [16]
American Experience "Triangle Fire" Mark Zwonitzer PBS
“Dinosaur Bone War” Mark Davis
“The Great Famine” Austin Hoyt
Nova “Making Stuff Smarter” Daniel McCabe
God in America “A New Adam, a New Eden” David Belton
Prohibition "A Nation of Scofflaws" Geoffrey C. Ward
2012
(65th)
Nova "The Fabric of the Cosmos: The Illusion of Time" Randall MacLowry, Joseph McMaster and Randall MacLowry PBS [17]
American Experience "The Amish" David Belton PBS
"Clinton" Barak Goodman
"Death and the Civil War" Ric Burns
Nova "The Fabric of the Cosmos: Quantum Leap" Josh Rosen, Julia Cort and Joseph McMaster
American Masters "Johnny Carson: King of Late Night" Peter T. Jones
2013
(66th)
American Experience "Silicon Valley" Randall MacLowry and Michelle Ferrari PBS [18]
Frontline "The Choice 2012" Michael Kirk
American Experience "The Abolitionists" Rob Rapley PBS
The Dust Bowl "The Great Plow-Up"" Dayton Duncan
2014
(67th)
Frontline "League of Denial: The NFL's Concussion Crisis" Michael Kirk and Mike Wiser PBS [19]
Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey "Standing Up in the Milky Way" Ann Druyan and Steven Soter Fox
The Roosevelts: An Intimate History "The Rising Road (1933–1939)" Geoffrey C. Ward PBS
2015
(68th)
Nova "The Great Math Mystery" Daniel McCab PBS [20]
Frontline "Firestone and the Warlord" Marcela Gaviria PBS
"Secrets, Politics and Torture" Michael Kirk and Mike Wiser
American Experience "The Forgotten Plague" Chana Gazit
2016
(69th)
Jackie Robinson "Part One" David McMahon and Sarah Burns PBS [21]
American Reds Richard Wormser WPTS Dayton
Frontline "Netanyahu at War" Michael Kirk and Mike Wiser PBS
2017
(70th)
American Experience "The Vietnam War: Episode 2" Stephen Ives PBS [22]
Frontline "Divided States of America: Part One" Michael Kirk and Mike Wiser PBS
American Experience "The Vietnam War: Episode 6" Geoffrey C. Ward
"Rachel Carson" Michelle Ferrari
"The Great War: Part III" Rob Rapley
2018
(71st)
American Experience "The Eugenics Crusade" Michelle Ferrari PBS [23]
Frontline "Bitter Rivals: Iran and Saudi Arabia – Part 1" David Fanning, Linda Hirsch and Martin Smith PBS
American Experience "The Circus, Part One" Sharon Grimberg
"Into the Amazon" John Maggio
2019
(72nd)
American Experience "Chasing The Moon Part One: A Place Beyond The Sky" Robert Stone PBS [24]
Frontline "Right to Fail" Tom Jennings PBS
"Supreme Revenge" Michael Kirk and Mike Wiser

2020s

Year Program Episode Writer(s) Network Ref.
2020
(73rd)
Frontline "Opioids, Inc." Tom Jennings PBS [25]
American Experience "The Poison Squad" John Maggio PBS
Nova "The Violence Paradox" Michael Bicks and Anna Lee Strachan
2021
(74th)
American Experience "Citizen Hearst, Part One" Gene Tempest PBS [26]
Amend: The Fight for America "Citizen" Sasha Stewart and Robe Imbriano Netflix
Hemingway "A Writer" Geoffrey C. Ward PBS
Muhammad Ali "Round One" David McMahon and Sarah Burns

Programs with multiple wins

18 awards
4 awards

Programs with multiple nominations

59 nominations
15 nominations
13 nominations
4 nominations
2 nominations

See also

References

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