| Film Title | Director | Country | Year | Format | Genre | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Willa Cather: The Road is All | Joel Geyer | USA | 2005 | DVD | Documentary | |
| W.E.B. DuBois: A Biography in Four Voices | Louis J. Massiah | USA | 1996 | DVD | Documentary | |
| Woody Guthrie: Ain’t Got No Home | Peter Frumkin | USA | 2006 | DVD | Documentary | |
| World’s Most Dangerous Gang | USA | 2006 | DVD | Documentary | ||
| What I Want My Words to Do to You | Madeleine Gavin, Judith Katz & Gary Sunshine | USA | 2003 | DVD | Documentary | |
| Why We Write | Films Media Group | USA | 1997 | DVD | Documentary | |
| William Shakespeare: A Life of Drama | Rebecca Jones | USA | 1996 | VHS | Documentary | |
| Waco: The Rules of Engagement | William Gazecki | USA | 1997 | DVD/VHS | Documentary | |
| Waging a Living | Roger Weisberg | USA | 2005 | DVD | Documentary | |
| Waiting for ‘Superman’ | Davis Guggenheim | USA | 2010 | DVD | Documentary | |
| Wal-Mart: The High Cost of a Low Price | Robert Greenwald | USA | 2005 | DVD | Documentary | |
| Walker Percy: A Documentary Film | Win Riley | USA | 2011 | DVD | Documentary | |
| Walking With Cavemen | Richard Dale & Pierre de Lespinois | UK | 2003 | DVD | Documentary | |
| Wall | Simone Bitton | France | 2004 | DVD | Documentary | |
| Waltz with Bashir | Ari Folman | Israel | 2008 | DVD | Documentary | |
| Wanted: Dead or Alive: Season 1 | Thomas Carr, Don McDougall & R.G. Springsteen | USA | 1958 | VHS | Documentary | |
| War and Civilization | Tony Bulley | USA | 1998 | DVD | Documentary | |
| War at Home, The | Glenn Silber & Barry Alexander Brown | USA | 1979 | DVD | Documentary | |
| War Dance | Sean Fine & Andrea Nix | USA | 2007 | DVD | Documentary | |
| War Don Don | Rebecca Richman Cohen | USA | 2010 | DVD | Documentary | |
| War Game, The / The Battle of Culloden | Peter Watkins | UK | 1965 | DVD | Documentary | |
| War of the World, The: A New History of the 20th Century | Adrian Pennink & Simon Chu | USA | 2008 | DVD | Documentary | |
| War on Democracy, The | Christopher Martin & John Pilger | UK | 2007 | DVD | Documentary | |
| War Photographer | Christian Frei | Switzerland | 2001 | DVD | Documentary | |
| War Room, The | Chris Hegedus & D.A. Pennebaker | USA | 1993 | DVD/VHS | Documentary | |
| War Tapes, The | Deborah Scranton | USA | 2006 | DVD | Documentary | |
| War, The – A Necessary War: December 1941 – December 1942 | Ken Burns & Lynn Novick | USA | 2007 | DVD | Documentary | |
| War, The – A World Without War: March 1945 – September 1945 | Ken Burns & Lynn Novick | USA | 2007 | DVD | Documentary | |
| War, The – FUBAR: September 1944 – December 1944 | Ken Burns & Lynn Novick | USA | 2007 | DVD | Documentary | |
| War, The – Pride of Our Nation: June 1944 – August 1944 | Ken Burns & Lynn Novick | USA | 2007 | DVD | Documentary | |
| War, The – When Things Get Tough: January 1943 – December 1943; A Deadly Calling: November 1943 – June 1944 | Ken Burns & Lynn Novick | USA | 2007 | DVD | Documentary | |
| War, The – The Ghost Front: December 1944 – March 1945 | Ken Burns & Lynn Novick | USA | 2007 | DVD | Documentary | |
| Warrior of Light | Monika Treut | Germany | 2001 | DVD | Documentary | |
| Warrior: The Life of Leonard Peltier | Suzie Baer | USA | 1992 | DVD | Documentary | |
| Warriors of the Amazon | Andy Jillings | USA | 1996 | VHS | Documentary | |
| Waste Land | Lucy Walker | Brazil | 2010 | DVD | Documentary | |
| Water is Wet | Gordon Weisenborn | USA | 1969 | VHS | Documentary | |
| Wattstax | Mel Stuart | USA | 1973 | DVD/VHS | Documentary | |
| We Are the World | Tom Trbovich | USA | 1985 | VHS | Documentary | |
| We Are The World: The Story Behind the Song | Tom Trbovich | USA | 1985 | DVD | Documentary | |
| We Are Wizards | Josh Koury | USA | 2008 | DVD | Documentary | |
| We Feed The World | Erwin Wagenhofer | Austria | 2005 | DVD | Documentary | |
| We Shall Remain | Chris Eyre, Ric Burns, Sarah Colt, Dustinn Craig & Stanley Nelson | USA | 2009 | DVD | Documentary | |
| We Were Here: The AIDS Years in San Francisco | David Weissman & Bill Weber | USA | 2011 | DVD | Documentary | |
| Weapons of the Spirit | Pierre Sauvage | France | 1987 | VHS | Documentary | |
| Weapons of the Spirit: Classroom Version | Pierre Sauvage | France | 1987 | VHS | Documentary | |
| Weather Underground, The | Sam Green & Bill Siegal | USA | 2002 | DVD | Documentary | |
| Welcome to Nollywood | Jamie Meltzer | USA | 2007 | DVD | Documentary | |
| Well-Founded Fear | Shari Robertson & Michael Camerini | USA | 2000 | DVD | Documentary | |
| Western Lights: In the Wake of Christopher Columbus | Michel Noll | France | 1995 | DVD | Documentary | |
| Wet Dreams and False Images | Jesse Epstein | USA | 2004 | DVD | Documentary | |
| Whaledreamers | Kim Kindersley | Australia | 2006 | DVD | Documentary | |
| What Darwin Never Knew | John Rubin, Serena Davies, Rushmore DeNooyer & Sarah Holt | USA | 2009 | DVD | Documentary | |
| What Do You Believe? | Sarah Feinbloom | USA | 2006 | DVD | Documentary | |
| What Happened to Kerouac? | Richard Lerner & Lewis MacAdams | USA | 1986 | DVD | Documentary | |
| What if You Couldn’t Read? | Dorothy Tod | USA | 1978 | VHS | Documentary | |
| What Remains: The Life and Work of Sally Mann | Steven Cantor | USA | 2005 | DVD | Documentary | |
| What’s Race Got to Do With It? | Jean Cheng | USA | 2006 | DVD | Documentary | |
| Wheel of Time | Werner Herzog | Germany | 2003 | DVD | Documentary | |
| When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts | Spike Lee | USA | 2006 | DVD | Documentary | |
| When the Moors Ruled in Europe | Timothy Copestake | USA | 2005 | DVD | Documentary | |
| When the Mountains Tremble | Pamela Yates & Newton Thomas Sigel | USA | 1983 | DVD | Documentary | |
| When We Were Kings | Leon Gast | USA | 1996 | DVD/VHS | Documentary | |
| Which Way Home | Rebecca Cammisa | USA | 2009 | DVD | Documentary | |
| Which Way Is East: Notebooks from Vietnam | Lynne Sachs | USA | 1994 | DVD | Documentary | |
| White Diamond, The | Werner Herzog | Germany | 2004 | DVD | Documentary | |
| White Light/Black Rain: The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki | Steven Okazaki | USA | 2007 | DVD | Documentary | |
| Walt Whitman | Mark Zwonitzer | USA | 2008 | DVD | Documentary | |
| Who Are the DeBolts? [And Where Did They Get 19 Kids?] | John Korty | USA | 1977 | DVD | Documentary | |
| Who Do You Think You Are? Season 1 | Christopher Bruce | USA | 2010 | DVD | Documentary | |
| Who Do You Think You Are? Season 2 | David Gardner, Elizabeth Dobson & Rupert Smith | USA | 2011 | DVD | Documentary | |
| Who Gets to Call It Art? | Peter Rosen | USA | 2006 | DVD | Documentary | |
| Who Killed the Electric Car? | Chris Paine | USA | 2006 | DVD | Documentary | |
| Who Shall Live and Who Shall Die? | Laurence Jarvik | USA | 1981 | DVD | Documentary | |
| Who Was Kafka? | Richard Dindo | Switzerland | 2006 | DVD | Documentary | |
| Why Man Creates | Saul Bass | USA | 1968 | VHS | Documentary | |
| Why Wal-Mart Works: And Why That Drives Some People C-r-a-z-y | Ron Galloway | USA | 2005 | DVD | Documentary | |
| Why We Fight | Eugene Jarecki | USA | 2005 | DVD | Documentary | |
| Wild China | Phil Chapman, Kathryn Jeffs, Gavin Maxwell, George Chan & Charlotte Scott | UK | 2008 | DVD | Documentary | |
| Wild Horse Redemption, The | John Zaritsky | Canada | 2007 | DVD | Documentary | |
| Wild Pacific | Chiara Bellati, Mark Brownlow & Jonathan Clay | USA | 2009 | DVD | Documentary | |
| William Faulkner and Eudora Welty | N/A N/A | USA | 1987 | DVD | Documentary | |
| William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe | Emily & Sarah Kunstler | USA | 2009 | DVD | Documentary | |
| William Styron: A Portrait | Joel Foreman | USA | 1982 | DVD | Documentary | |
| Winged Migration | Jacques Perrin | France | 2001 | DVD | Documentary | |
| Wings of Defeat | Risa Morimoto | USA | 2007 | DVD | Documentary | |
| Winter Soldier | Fred Aronow | USA | 1972 | DVD | Documentary | |
| With God on Our Side: George W. Bush and the Rise of the Religious Right in America | David Van Taylor | USA | 2004 | DVD | Documentary | |
| With Heaven in a Garden | Stephane Brenton | France | 2001 | DVD | Documentary | |
| With One Voice | Eric Temple | USA | 2009 | DVD | Documentary | |
| Without the King | Michael Skolnik | USA | 2007 | DVD | Documentary | |
| Witness: Voices from the Holocaust | Joshua M. Greene | USA | 1999 | VHS | Documentary | |
| WMD: Weapons of Mass Deception | Danny Schechter | USA | 2004 | DVD | Documentary | |
| Wobblies, The | Stewart Bird & Deborah Shaffer | USA | 1979 | DVD | Documentary | |
| Women & Spirituality | Donna Read | USA | 1992 | DVD | Documentary | |
| Women of Summer, The | Suzanne Bauman & Rita Heller | USA | 1985 | DVD | Documentary | |
| Wonderful, Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl, The | Ray Muller | Germany | 1993 | DVD | Documentary | |
| Wonders of the African World with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. | Nicola Colton, Nick Godwin & Helena Appio | USA | 1999 | DVD | Documentary | |
| Woodstock | Michael Wadleigh | USA | 1970 | DVD | Documentary | |
| Word is Out | Nancy Adair, Andrew Brown & Rob Epstein | USA | 1977 | DVD/VHS | Documentary |
