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.
It was first awarded at the 7th Annual TV Week Logie Awards ceremony, held in 1965 as Best Documentary Series. The award was renamed many times in subsequent ceremonies; Best Documentary, Best Australian Documentary Series, Best Documentary/Current Affairs Series
, Best Dramatised Documentary Series. 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. It has also been known as Most Outstanding Documentary Single or Series, Most Outstanding Documentary, and Most Outstanding Documentary or Special Report in a Public Affairs Program, Most Outstanding Documentary Series and Most Outstanding Documentary or Documentary Series, Most Outstanding Factual Program. This award category was eliminated in 2016 and returned in 2017 as the Most Outstanding Factual or Documentary Program.

Winners and nominees

Listed below are the winners of the award for each year for Best Documentary Series.
YearProgramNetworkRef
1965Project 64
Nine Network
1966Birth
1967Project 66
Nine Network
1969The Talgai Skull
ABC
1970Chequerboard
ABC
1971Four Corners
ABC
1973Shell's Australia
Seven Network
1974Wild Australia
ABC
1975Billy and Percy
ABC
1976A Big Country
ABC
1977Australians At War
Network Ten
1978In the Wild
ABC
1979A Big Country
ABC
1980This Fabulous Century
Seven Network
1981A Big Country
ABC
1982A Matter of Chance
ABC
1983John Laws' World
Network Ten
1984Ash Wednesday
1985Frontline Afghanistan
ABC
1986Sweat of the Sun, Tears of the Moon
ABC

Listed below are the winners of the award for each year for Most Outstanding Factual or Documentary Series.
YearProgramNetworkRef
1987Handle with Care
Network Ten
1987The Greatest Gift
Nine Network
1988Suzi's Story
Network Ten
1989Nature of Australia
ABC
1990Ladies in Line
ABC
1991The Chelmsford Scream
Nine Network
1992The Time of Your Life
ABC
1993Cop It Sweet
ABC
1993Faces in the Mob
ABC
1994Labor in Power
ABC
1995Fifty Years of Silence
ABC
1996Untold Desires
SBS
1997Somebody Now – Nobody's Children Seven Years On
ABC
1998Rats in the Ranks
ABC
1998The Big House
ABC
1998The Call of Kakadu
ABC
1998Mabo: Life of An Island Man
ABC
1998Tell My Kids I'm Sorry
Seven Network
1999Miracle at Sea: The Rescue of Tony Bullimore
ABC
1999Afrika: Cape Town to Cairo
ABC
1999Exile In Sarajevo
SBS
1999Mabo: Rite of Passage
SBS
2000Facing the Demons
ABC
2000A Race to Survive
ABC
2000Sierra Leone
SBS
2000The Keating Millions
Nine Network
2001A Death in the Family
SBS
2001The Diplomat
SBS
2001The Last Warriors
Seven Network
2001The Track
ABC
2002Australians at War
ABC
2002100 Years
ABC
2002Drama School
Seven Network
2002Journeys to the Ends of the Earth
ABC
2002Long Way to the Top
ABC
2002The Ties That Bind
ABC
2003Australian Story
ABC
2003Black Chicks Talking
ABC
2003Gough Whitlam: In His Own Words
SBS
2003Gulpilil: One Red Blood
ABC
2003Rainbow Bird and Monster Man
SBS
2004Dying to Leave
SBS
2004Beyond Bronte
Nine Network
2004From Korea with Love
SBS
2004Love is in the Air
ABC
2004Man Made: The Story of Two Men and a Baby
SBS
2005The President vs David Hicks
SBS
2005The Last Voices From Heaven Parts 1 & 2
Foxtel
2005Moulin Rouge Girls
ABC
2005Stories From a Children's Hospital: Chloe's Story
ABC
2005Tug of Love
SBS
2006He's Coming South: The Attack on Sydney Harbour
The History Channel
2006The Colony
SBS
2006Divorce Stories
SBS
2006Frank Hurley: The Man Who Made History
ABC
2006Revealing Gallipoli
ABC
2007Who Killed Dr Bogle and Mrs Chandler?
ABC
2007The Battle of Long Tan
The History Channel
2007The Bridge at Midnight Trembles
SBS
2007The Floating Brothel
ABC
2007Life at 1
ABC
2008Constructing Australia: The Bridge
ABC
2008Captain Cook: Obsession and Discovery
ABC
2008Inside Australia: My Brother Vinnie
SBS
2008The Sounds of Aus
ABC
2008The Ultimate Donation
Network Ten
2009First Australians
SBS
2009Beyond Kokoda
The History Channel
2009The Oasis: Australia's Homeless Youth
ABC
2009'
Nine Network
2009The Howard Years
ABC
2010Law and Disorder
SBS
2010Bombora: The Story of Australian Surfing
ABC
2010Bondi Rescue
Network Ten
2010Darwin's Brave New World
ABC
2010Last Chance Saloon
SBS
2011Trishna & Krishna: The Quest For Separate Lives
Seven Network
2011Bondi Rescue
Network Ten
2011Miracle in the Storm
ABC
2011RPA
Nine Network
2011'
Seven Network
2012Go Back To Where You Came From
SBS
2012Leaky Boat
ABC
2012Mrs Carey's Concert
ABC
2012Outback Fight Club
SBS
2012Tony Robinson Explores Australia
The History Channel
2013Bondi Rescue
Network Ten
2013Bondi Vet
Network Ten
2013'
Seven Network
2013RPA
Nine Network
2013Who Do You Think You Are?
SBS
2014'
Crime & Investigation Network
2014Desert War
ABC
2014Dirty Business
SBS
2014Jabbed
SBS
2014Redesign My Brain
ABC
2015First Contact
SBS
2015Brilliant Creatures
ABC
2015Changing Minds
ABC
2015Coast Australia
The History Channel
2015The War That Changed Us
ABC
2017Conviction
ABC
2017Deep Water: The Real Story
SBS
2017Gogglebox Australia
Lifestyle Channel / Network Ten
2017Keeping Australia Alive
ABC
2017Todd Sampson's Body Hack
Network Ten
2018War on Waste
ABC
2018Michael Hutchence: The Last Rockstar
Seven Network
2018Struggle Street
SBS
2018The Queen & Zak Grieve
Crime & Investigation
2018You Can't Ask That
ABC
2019Ron Iddles: The Good Cop
Foxtel
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2019Employable Me
ABC
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2019Exposed: The Case Of Keli Lane
ABC
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2019Taboo
Network Ten
-
2019The Pacific – In The Wake Of Captain Cook With Sam Neill
Foxtel
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