- Lincoln@Gettysburg, how the telegraph helped Abraham Lincoln to reshape America, A Partisan Pictures production for PBS ; produced & directed by Peter Schnall ; written by Chana Gazit
- The undertaking, a Frontline co-production with Mead Street Films ; written, produced and directed by Miri Navasky and Karen O'Connor
- The day Carl Sandburg died, a production of Bonesteel Films in association with Thirteen's American Masters for WNET ; producer, Matthew Gellert ; writer, director and editor, Paul Bonesteel
- The men who built America, executive producer, Stephen David ; directed by Patrick Reams ; writers, Stephen David, Patrick Reams, Keith Palmer, Randy Counsman, Ed Fields, David C. White ; series producers, Keith Palmer, David C. White ; producers, Glenn Allen, Richard Friedlander, Randy Counsman, Brian Burstein ; director, Ruan Magan ; for History, executive producers, Dirk Hoogstra, Russ McCarroll, Paul Cabana ; producer, Kristen Burns ; created for History by Stephen David Entertainment and Brainstorm Digital ; A & E Television Networks LLC
- Mister Rogers: it's you I like, produced by JoAnn Young, John Paulson ; directed by John Paulson ; written by JoAnn Young ; produced by Young Productions, John Paulson Productions ; the Fred Rogers Company
- Million dollar American princesses, the complete series, produced by Finestripe Productions and Smithsonian Networks ; series producer and director, Michael Burke ; for Smithsonian Channel
- Our American presidents, their lives & legacies, directed and written by Tom DeMichael ; produced by Tom Edinger, Tom DeMichael, Volume 1
- The Spanish princess, La princesa española, Starz Originals presents ; developed by Emma Frost, Matthew Graham ; produced by Andrea Dewsbery ; Playground ; Giddy Ink, Jumping Joseph ; New Pictures, an all3media company ; written by Emma Frost, Matthew Graham, Helen Childress, Nicki Renna, Andrea Thornton Bolden ; directed by Birgitte Stærmose, Daina Reid, Lisa Clarke, Stephen Woolfenden
- Raúl Juliá, the world's a stage, co-producers, Sikay Tang, Cionin Lorenzo, Edgar Andrade ; producer, Jill Krikorian ; produced & directed by Ben DeJesus ; co-production of NGL Studios, Diamante Content, Independent Television Service (ITVS), and Latino Public Broadcasting in association with American Masters Pictures
- Mr. Selfridge, ITV Studios and Masterpiece ; series producer Dominic Barlow ; producer, Jeremy Piven ; directed by Robert Del Maestro, Bill Anderson, Fraser MacDonald, Joss Agnew, and Rob Evans ; written by Helen Raynor, Kate O'Riordan, Matt Jones, James Payne, Ben Morris, and Hamish Wright, Season 4
- The man who shot the great war, produced by Diarmuid Lavery ; directed by Brian Henry Martin ; Doubleband Films for BBC Northern Ireland
- Annie Oakley, PBS ; produced and directed by Riva Freifeld ; written by Ken Chowder ; co-produced by Amy Brown ; a Riva Productions film for American Experience ; WGBH Boston
- Ted Williams, "the greatest hitter who ever lived", American Masters Pictures ; produced by Nick Davis Productions ; an Albert M. Tapper production in association with WNET's American masters for WNET, Nick Davis Productions, Big Papi Productions and Major League Baseball ; produced & directed by Nick Davis ; producer, Meredith Coleman ; written by Nick Davis
- Muhammad Ali, a film by Ken Burns, Sarah Burns & David McMahon ; a production of Florentine Films and WETA Washington ; directed by Ken Burns, Sarah Burns & David McMahon ; written by David McMahon & Sarah Burns ; produced by Sarah Burns, David McMahon, Stephanie Jenkins & Ken Burns
- Sense & sensibility, by Jane Austen ; screenplay by Andrew Davies ; produced by Anne Pivcevic ; directed by John Alexander ; BBC, WGBH Boston co-production
- All creatures great & small, British Broadcasting Corporation ; 2 Entertain ; a co-production of BBC and Time-Life Films, Inc. ; produced by Bill Sellars, The complete series 3 collection
- Biography, behind the legend, produced by Del Jack & Cress Darwin ; directed by N. Brice Shipley ; written by Bob Waldman ; produced by Millenial Entertainment and Archive Films in association with Arts & Entertainment Networks
- The crown, producer, Andrew Eaton ; creator Peter Morgan ; Sony Pictures Television ; Left Bank Pictures, The complete first season
- John Adams, HBO Films presents a Playtone production ; produced by David Coatsworth, Steven Shareshian ; directed by Tom Hooper
- Carlos, Daniel Leconte presents with the participation of Canal+ in association with Sundance Channel with the participation of ARTE France and the participation of Centre national de la cinématographie and Deutscher Filmförderfonds and of TV5 Monde in co-production with Egoli Tossell Film ; a movie produced by Film En Stock ; un film de Olivier Assayas ; un film produit par Daniel Leconte ; producteur exécutif, Raphael Cohen ; écrit par Olivier Assayas et Dan Franck ; d'après une idèe originale de Daniel Leconte
- Tesla, American Experience Films ; written and produced by David Grubin ; executive producer, Mark Samels ; a David Grubin Productions film for American Experience ; WGBH Educational Foundation
- Zora Neale Hurston, claiming a space, American Experience Films ; produced by Randall MacLowry, Tracy Heather Strain ; written and directed by Tracy Heather Strain ; senior series producer, Susan Bellows ; a Film Posse, Inc. production for American Experience
- Billie Jean King, a production of New Black Films, Media Squared Films PLC and Thirteen American Masters in association with Goldcrest Films International and WNET ; produced by Victoria Gregory ; written, produced and directed by James Erskine
- Percy Julian:Forgotten genius, a Nova production for WGBH Boston ; written by Stephen Lyons & Llewellyn M. Smith ; directed by Llewellyn M. Smith ; produced by Llewellyn M. Smith, Stephen Lyons
- King, an Abby Mann Production in association with Filmways ; written by Abby Mann ; produced by Paul Maslansky ; directed by Abby Mann ; NBC
- Growing up trans, produced, written & directed by Miri Navasky & Karen O'Connor ; a Frontline production with Mead Street Films
- Life with Judy Garland, me & my shadows, an Alliance Atlantis production in co-production with IN-motion AG in association with Storyline Entertainment ; producer, Robert L. Freedman, John Ryan ; teleplay by Robert L. Freedman ; directed by Robert Allan Ackerman
- Thomas Hart Benton, a film by Ken Burns ; produced by Ken Burns and Julie Dunphey ; written by Geoffrey C. Ward
- Custer's last stand, American Experience Films presents ; produced by Amanda Pollak ; written and directed by Stephen Ives ; Insignia Films production
- The flame trees of Thika, Euston Films in association with Consolidate Productions ; produced by John Hawkesworth, Christopher Neame ; screenplay by John Hawkesworth ; directed by Roy Ward Baker
- Hemingway, a film by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick ; a Florentine Films production ; directed by Ken Burns, Lynn Novick ; written by Geoffrey C. Ward ; produced by Sarah Botstein, Lynn Novick, Ken Burns ; co-produced with WETA Washington, D.C.
- 49 up, produced by Claire Lewis, Michael Apted ; directed by Michael Apted ; Granada Television Ltd. ; Granada International
- You don't know Jack, HBO Films presents a Bee Holder production ; a Cine Mosaic production ; a Levinson/Fontana production ; a Barry Levinson film ; produced by Scott Ferguson ; executive producers, Steve Lee Jones [and others] ; written by Adam Mazer ; directed by Barry Levinson
- In the Time of the Butterflies, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer presents ; a Phoenix Pictures/Barnstorm Films production ; in association with Ventanarosa Productions ; in association with Producciones AmArAntA ; producer, Ellen Gordon ; teleplay by Judy Klass & David Klass ; directed by Mariano Barroso
- Vladimir Lenin, voice of revolution, A & E Television Networks
- Temple Grandin, HBO Films presents ; a Ruby Films production ; a Gerson Saines production ; a Mick Jackson film ; produced by Scott Ferguson ; screenplay by Christopher Monger and William Merritt Johnson ; directed by Mick Jackson
- Sammy Davis, Jr., I've gotta be me, produced by Sally Rosenthal and Michael Kantor ; edited by Steven Wechsler ; written by Laurence Maslon directed by Sam Pollard ; a production of Thirteen Productions LLC's American masters for WNET ; in coproduction with ZDF ; in collaboration with ARTE
- Joseph Pulitzer, voice of the people, a production of Oren Rudavsky Productions and Folium Films in association with Thirteen Productions LLC's American masters for WNET ; directed by Oren Rudavsky ; written by Robert Seidman & Oren Rudavsky ; produced by Andrea Miller, Oren Rudavsky, Robert Seidman
- Woody Allen, a documentary, Whyaduck Productions, Rat Entertainment, Mike's Movies, and Insurgent Media in association with THIRTEEN's American Masters present ; a film by Robert B. Weide ; written, directed & produced by Robert B. Weide
- Not for ourselves alone, the story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony, a Florentine Films production ; producer, Ken Burns, Paul Barnes ; writer, Geoffrey C. Ward ; director, Ken Burns
- Crossbones, created by Neil Cross, James V. Hart and Amanda Welles, Season one
- Norman Lear, just another version of you, a production of Loki Films and American Masters Pictures ; a Loki Films, Jonathan D. Lewis and American Masters Pictures production ; directed by Heidi Ewing, Rachel Grady ; producer, Michael Kantor, Suzanne Hillinger, Brent Miller
- My boy Jack, writer, David Haig ; producers, Michael Casey, Douglas Rae ; director, Brian Kirk ; a co-production of Ingenious Broadcasting in association with Octagon Films with the participation of Bord Scannán na hÉireann/Irish Film Board ; in association with Granada International ; an Ecosse Films and WGBH/Boston production
- We need to talk about Cosby, Showtime Documentary Films presents ; a Boardwalk Pictures production ; in association with WKB Industries ; executive producer, W. Kamau Bell [and seven others] ; directed by W. Kamau Bell
- Laura Ingalls Wilder, prairie to page, producers, Atticus Brady, Julie Sacks, Junko Tsunashima, Mary McDonagh Murphy ; writer/director/producer, Mary McDonagh Murphy
- Little Dieter needs to fly, a film by Werner Herzog ; a Werner Herzog Filmproduktion in association with Café Productions for ZDF ; coproduction ZDF, ZDF Enterprises and BBC ; produced, directed and narrated by Werner Herzog ; executive producer, Lucki Stipetić
- John Hus, a journey of no return
- A matter of taste, serving up Paul Liebrandt, Rowe Road Productions ; producer, Sally Rowe [and others] ; directed by Sally Rowe
- Patti Smith, dream of life, Palm Pictures ; a film by Steven Sebring ; a production of Clean Socks and Thirteen/WNET New York
- Hawking, produced by Darlow Smithson Productions for PBS and Channel 4 ; in association with Endemol Worldwide Distribution ; written by Stephen Hawking, Stephen Finnigan, Ben Bowie ; directed, filmed & produced by Stephen Finnigan