| Platino Award for Best Documentary | |
| Awarded For: | Best Documentary of the Year |
| Presenter: | Entidad de Gestión de Derechos de los Productores Audiovisuales (EGEDA), Federación Iberoamericana de Productores Cinematográficos y Audiovisuales (FIPCA) |
| Country: | Ibero-America |
| Holder: | The Eternal Memory (2024) |
The Platino Award for Best Documentary (Spanish: Premio Platino al mejor película documental) is one of the Platino Awards, Ibero-America's film awards, presented by the Entidad de Gestión de Derechos de los Productores Audiovisuales (EGEDA) and the Federación Iberoamericana de Productores Cinematográficos y Audiovisuales (FIPCA).
It was first presented in 2014, with the Spanish documentary Con la pata quebrada being the first recipient of the award. Spain holds the record of most wins in the category with six as well as most nominations with twenty-two, with at least one nominated Spanish film each edition.
Chilean films The Mole Agent and The Eternal Memory both won the Platino Award (in 2021 and 2024 respectively) and received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.
In the list below. the winner of the award for each year is shown first, followed by the other nominees.
| Year | English title | Original title | Director | Country | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 (1st) | Con la Pata Quebrada | Diego Galán | |||
| Cuates de Australia | Everardo González | ||||
| La Eterna Noche de las Doce Lunas | Priscilla Padilla | ||||
| O Dia que Durou 21 Anos | Camilo Tavares | ||||
| Sigo Siendo (Kachkaniraqmi) | Javier Corcuera | ||||
| 2015 (2nd) | The Salt of the Earth | O Sal da Terra | Wim Wenders & Juliano Ribeiro Salgado | ||
| Who is Dayani Cristal? | ¿Quién es Dayani Cristal? | ||||
| El Vals de los Inútiles | Edison Cájas | ||||
| Born in Gaza | Nacido en Gaza | ||||
| Paco de Lucía: La Búsqueda | Francisco Sánchez Varela | ||||
| 2016 (3rd) | The Pearl Button | El botón de nácar | Patricio Guzmán | ||
| Chicas Nuevas 24 Horas | |||||
| Beyond My Grandfather Allende | Allende mi abuelo Allende | Marcia Tambutti Allende | |||
| The Propaganda Game | |||||
| Tea Time | La once | ||||
| 2017 (4th) | Born in Syria | Nacido en Siria | Hernán Zin | ||
| Atrapados en Japón | Vivienne Barry | ||||
| Cinema Novo | |||||
| Frágil Equilibrio | Guillermo García López | ||||
| It All Started at the End | Todo comenzó por el fin | ||||
| 2018 (5th) | |||||
| Lots of Kids, a Monkey and a Castle | Muchos hijos, un mono y un castillo | Gustavo Salmerón | |||
| Ejercicios de Memoria | |||||
| Dancing Beethoven | |||||
| El Pacto de Adriana | Lissette Orozco | ||||
| The Grown-Ups | Los niños | Maite Alberdi | |||
| 2019 (6th) [1] | |||||
| The Silence of Others | El silencio de los otros | Robert Bahar & Almudena Carracedo | |||
| Devil's Freedom | La libertad del diablo | Everardo González | |||
| Camarón: Flamenco y Revolución | Alexis Morante | ||||
| Ruben Blades Is Not My Name | Yo no me llamo Rubén Blades | ||||
| Year | English title | Original title | Director | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 (7th) [2] | The Edge of Democracy | Democracia em Vertigem | Petra Costa | |
| Ara Malikian: Una Vida Entre las Cuerdas | ||||
| El Cuadro | Andrés Sanz | |||
| Historias de Nuestro Cine | Ana Pérez-Lorente & Antonio Resines | |||
| 2021 (8th) [3] | The Mole Agent | El agente topo | Maite Alberdi |  Chile Spain |
| Babenco: Alguém Tem que Ouvir o Coração e Dizer Parou |  Brazil | |||
| Cartas Mojadas | Paula Palacios | Spain | ||
| The Year of the Discovery | El año del descubrimiento | Luis López Carrasco | ||
| 2022 (9th) [4] [5] | A Última Floresta | Luiz Bolognesi | Brazil | |
| 100 Días con La Tata | Miguel Ángel Muñoz | Spain | ||
| Who's Stopping Us | Quién lo impide | Jonás Trueba | ||
| Mariem Pérez Riera |  Puerto Rico | |||
| 2023 (10th) [6] [7] | The Padilla Affair | El caso Padilla | Pavel Giroud |  Cuba Spain |
| Bosco | Alicia Cano Menoni |  Uruguay | ||
| Eami |  Paraguay Mexico Argentina | |||
| The Silence of the Mole | El silencio del topo | Anaïs Taracena |  Guatemala | |
| My Imaginary Country | Mi país imaginario | Chile | ||
| 2024 (11th) [8] [9] | The Eternal Memory | La memoria infinita | Maite Alberdi | Chile |
| La Memoria del Cine, una Película sobre Fernando Méndez-Leite | Moisés Salama | Spain | ||
| The Trial | El juicio | Ulises de la Orden | Argentina | |
| A Wolfpack Called Ernesto | Una jauría llamada Ernesto | Everardo González | Mexico | |
| Country | Awards (as of 2024) | Nominations (as of 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| 6 | 23 | |
| 3 | 6 | |
| 3 | 10 | |
| 1 | 1 | |
| 0 | 6 | |
| 0 | 6 | |
| 0 | 4 | |
| 0 | 2 | |
| 0 | 3 | |
| 0 | 1 | |
| 0 | 1 | |
| 0 | 1 | |
| 0 | 1 | |
| 0 | 1 | |