| National Film Award for Best Exploration/Adventure Film | |
| Subheader: | National award for contributions to short film |
| Sponsor: | Directorate of Film Festivals |
| Firstawarded: | 1984 |
| Lastawarded: | 2017 |
| Holder Label: | Most recent winner |
| Holder: | Ladakh Chale Richawala |
| Award1 Type: | Total awarded |
| Award1 Winner: | 18 |
| Award2 Type: | First winner |
| Award2 Winner: | Everest 84 |
The National Film Award for Best Exploration/Adventure Film is one of the National Film Awards presented annually by the Directorate of Film Festivals, the organisation set up by Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, India. It is one of several awards presented for non-feature films and awarded with Rajat Kamal (Silver Lotus).
The award was instituted in 1984, at 32nd National Film Awards and awarded annually for films produced in the year across the country, in all Indian languages. Award is also be given as National Film Award for Best Exploration/Adventure Film (including sports).
Award includes 'Rajat Kamal' (Silver Lotus) and cash prize. Following are the award winners over the years:
| List of films, showing the year, language(s), producer(s), director(s) and citation | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Film(s) | Language(s) | Producer(s) | Director(s) | Citation | ||
| 1984 | Everest 84 | English | Cinema Vision India | Siddharth Kak | [1] | ||
| 1985 | High Adventure on White Waters | English | Yash Choudhary | C. L. Kaul | [2] | ||
| 1986 | No Award | [3] | |||||
| 1987 | Antarctica: A Continuing Mystery (News Magazine No: 101) | English | Vijay B. Chandra for Films Division | Mahesh Kamble (Cameraman) | [4] | ||
| 1988 | No Award | [5] | |||||
| 1989 | No Award | [6] | |||||
| 1990 | The Indigenous of Manipur | English | Aribam Syam Sharma | Aribam Syam Sharma | [7] | ||
| 1991 | No Award | [8] | |||||
| 1992 | Antarctica: A Scientists' Paradise | English | R. Krishna Mohan for Films Division | A. Udayashankar | [9] | ||
| 1993 | The Splendour of Garhwal and Roopkund | English | The Garhwal Mandal Vikas Nigam | Victor Banerjee | [10] | ||
| 1994 | No Award | [11] | |||||
| 1995 | No Award | [12] | |||||
| 1996 | No Award | [13] | |||||
| 1997 | In Search of Excellence | Hindi | Kuldeep Sinha for Films Division | Raghu Krishna | [14] | ||
| 1998 | Malana: In Search Of | English | Neo Films | Vivek Mohan | [15] | ||
| 1999 | No Award | [16] | |||||
| 2000 | No Award | [17] | |||||
| 2001 | No Award | [18] | |||||
| 2002 | No Award | [19] | |||||
| 2003 | Madness in the Desert | English | Aamir Khan | Satyajit Bhatkal | [20] | ||
| 2004 | Shores of Silence: Whale Sharks in India | English | Gautam Pandey | Ranjana Pandey | [21] | ||
| 2005 | No Award | [22] | |||||
| 2006 | No Award | [23] | |||||
| 2007 | No Award | [24] | |||||
| 2008 | Shingnaba | Manipuri | Bachaspa Timayum Sunzu | Bachaspa Timayum Sunzu | [25] | ||
| 2009 | No Award | [26] | |||||
| 2010 | Boxing Ladies | Hindi | Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute | Anusha Nandakumar | [27] | ||
| 2011 | The Finish Line | English | Syed Sultan Ahmed and Tabassum Modi | Akshay Roy | [28] | ||
| 2012 | Manipuri Pony | English Manipuri | Films Division of India | Aribam Syam Sharma | [29] | ||
| 2013 | No Award | [30] | |||||
| 2014 | Life Force – India's Western Ghats | English | Grey Films India Pvt. Ltd. | Nallamuthu Subbiah | [31] | ||
| 2015 | Dribbling with their Future | English Tamil Kannada | N. Dinesh Raj Kumar Mathew Varghese | Jacob Varghese | [32] | ||
| 2016 | Matitle Kusti | English Telugu | Madhavi Reddy | Prantik Vivek Deshmukh | [33] | ||
| 2017 | Ladakh Chale Richawala | Films Division of India | Indrani Chakrabarti | ||||