The New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Non-Fiction Film is the award given for best feature documentary film at the annual New York Film Critics Circle Awards. The category was originally named Best Documentary and was awarded as such between 1980 and 1996. In 1997 it was discontinued and in 1998 it was relaunched under its current name.
| Year (ceremony) | Winner | Director(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 1980 (46th) | Best Boy | Ira Wohl |
| 1981 (47th) | ||
| 1982 (48th) | ||
| 1983 (49th) | ||
| 1984 (50th) | The Times of Harvey Milk | Rob Epstein |
| 1985 (51st) | Shoah | Claude Lanzmann |
| 1986 (52nd) | Marlene | Maximilian Schell |
| 1987 (53rd) | ||
| 1988 (54th) | The Thin Blue Line | Errol Morris |
| 1989 (55th) | Roger & Me | Michael Moore |
| 1990 (56th) | ||
| 1991 (57th) | Paris Is Burning | Jennie Livingston |
| 1992 (58th) | Brother's Keeper | Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky |
| 1993 (59th) | Visions of Light | Arnold Glassman, Todd McCarthy, and Stuart Samuels |
| 1994 (60th) | Hoop Dreams | Steve James |
| 1995 (61st) | Crumb | Terry Zwigoff |
| 1996 (62nd) | When We Were Kings | Leon Gast |
| 1997 (63rd) | Fast, Cheap & Out of Control | Errol Morris |