84 wins & 129 nominations
- 2004 Winner Banff Rockie Award
- Best History & Biography Program
For episode "Tupperware! (#16.6)". (Screened with American Experience (1988).)
- 1988 Winner Gold Hugo
- Best Documentary
- Ann Tegnell (director)
- Lise Yasui (director)
Segment: A Family Gathering
- 2006 Winner CINE Golden Eagle
- Telecast - Professional Non-Fiction Division: History
For episode "Kinsey (#17.5)". - 2004 Winner CINE Golden Eagle
- Professional Telecast Non-Fiction Division: People & Places
For episode "Mary Pickford (#17.6)". - 1998 Winner CINE Golden Eagle
- History
- David Grubin (producer/screenwriter)
- Allyson Luchak (producer)
- Amanda Pollack (producer)
- Lulie Haddad (producer)
- David Murdock (producer)
- Michael Bacon (music)
- William McCullough (camera)
- James Callanan (camera)
- Roger Phenix (camera/sound)
- Geof Bartz (sound)
For episode "Truman".
- 2018 Nominee C.A.S. Award
- Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing for Television - Non-Fiction, Variety or Music Series or Specials
- John Jenkins (producton mixer)
- Ken Hahn (re-recording mixer)
Episode: "The Great War: Part 3 (2017)" - 2012 Nominee C.A.S. Award
- Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing for Television - Non-Fiction, Variety or Music - Series or Specials
- G. John Garrett (production mixer)
- Rick Angelella (production mixer)
- Everett Wong (production mixer)
- Coll Anderson (re-recording mixer)
Episode: "Triangle Fire (2011)" - 2005 Nominee C.A.S. Award
- Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing for Television - Non-Fiction, Variety or Music - Series or Specials
- Roger Phenix (sound mixer)
- John Jenkins (sound mixer)
- Ken Hahn (re-recording mixer)
- Joe Hettinger (audio mixer)
Episode: "RFK (2004)" - 2004 Nominee C.A.S. Award
- Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing for Television - Non-Fiction, Variety or Music Series or Specials
- Dominick Tavella (re-recording mixer)
- Mark Mandler (re-recording mixer)
- John Zecca (production mixer)
Episode: "New York: Center of the World (2003)"
- 1997 Nominee DGA Award
- Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentary
For episode "Troublesome Creek: A Midwestern (#7.6)". - 1993 Nominee DGA Award
- Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentary/Actuality
For episode "The Donner Party".
- 2016 Nominee Primetime Emmy
- Outstanding Writing for Nonfiction Programming
- Mark Zwonitzer (telescript)
- Sarah Colt (story)
- Tom Jennings (story)
For episode: "Walt Disney". - 2015 Nominee Primetime Emmy
- Outstanding Writing for Nonfiction Programming
- Mark Bailey (written by)
- Keven McAlester (written by)
For episode: "Last Days in Vietnam". - 2014 Winner Primetime Emmy
- Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Special
- Mark Samels (executive producer)
- Sharon Grimberg (senior producer)
- Susan Bellows (produced by)
For episode: "JFK". - 2014 Nominee Primetime Emmy
- Outstanding Writing for Nonfiction Programming
- Mark Zwonitzer (writer)
Episode: "JFK" - 2014 Nominee Primetime Emmy
- Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking
- Mark Samels (executive producer)
- Sharon Grimberg (senior producer)
- Callie T. Wiser (produced by)
For episode "The Amish: Shunned"
- 2004 Winner Grand Jury Award
- Best Documentary Feature
For episode "Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst (#17.11)".
- 1993 Nominee Humanitas Prize
- PBS/Cable Category
- John McGreevey (teleplay by/story by)
- Avon Kirkland (story by)
- Peter Cook (story by)
For episode "Simple Justice".
- 2024 Nominee Image Award
- Outstanding Documentary (Television)
- 2005 Nominee Image Award
- Outstanding Television News, Talk or Information (Series or Special)
For episode "The Murder of Emmett Till (#15.6)". - 2004 Nominee Image Award
- Outstanding TV News, Talk or Information (Series or Special)
For episode "The Murder of Emmett Till (#15.6)". (Shown within American Experience (1988).)
- 2004 Winner Human Rights Award - Special MentionEpisode: Citizen King (2004). Intensely researched by the directors. A portrait of a man who changed history forever. An authentic document of struggle for universal freedom and justice exclusively by means of non-violence.
- 2017 Nominee Emmy
- Outstanding Research
- Rebecca Taylor (primary researcher)
- Peter Cramer (primary researcher)
- Ginger Frere (archival researcher)
- Pamela Gaudiano (archival researcher)
- Casey Herz (archival researcher)
- Shannon Hildebrand (archival researcher)
- Carol Jennings (archival researcher)
- Alistair Mackay (archival researcher)
- Charles Ocheltree (archival researcher)
- Polly Pettit (archival researcher)
- Bonnie Rowan (archival researcher)
- Tyler Sperrazza (archival researcher)
- William Hal Gorby (researcher)
- Andrew Helms (researcher)
- Randall MacLowry (researcher)
- Tracy Heather Strain (researcher)
For episode "The Mine Wars" - 2016 Nominee Emmy
- Outstanding Editing: Documentary and Long Form
- Don Kleszy (editor)
For episode "Last Days in Vietnam"Shared with: Last Days in Vietnam - 2015 Nominee Emmy
- Outstanding Science and Technology Programming
- Rob Rapley (director/producer)
- Sharon Grimberg (senior producer)
- Mark Samels (editorial producer)
- Deborah Clancy Porfido (coordinating producer)
- Kathryn Lord (co-producer)
For episode "The Poisoner's Handbook" - 2013 Nominee Emmy
- Outstanding Historical Programming - Long Form
- Mark Samels (executive producer)
- Sharon Grimberg (senior producer)
- Laurens Grant (producer/director)
- Stanley Nelson (producer)
For episode "Jesse Owens" - 2013 Nominee Emmy
- Outstanding Music and Sound
- Tom Phillips (composer)
- Brian Bracken (sound editor)
- Leslie Bloome (foley artist)
- Benny Mouthon (supervising sound editor/re-recording mixer)
For episode "Jesse Owens"
- 1996 Winner Wise Owl Award
- Independent Films and Videotapes
For episode "Troublesome Creek: A Midwestern (#7.6)".
- 2009 Nominee TCA Award
- Outstanding Achievement in News and Information
For the five-part documentary series "We Shall Remain". - 1999 Nominee TCA Award
- Outstanding Achievement in News and Information
- 1998 Winner TCA Award
- Outstanding Achievement in News and Information
- 1997 Winner TCA Award
- Outstanding Achievement in News and Information
- 1996 Nominee Young Artist Award
- Best Performance by a Young Actress - Voiceover Role
For episode "The Orphan Trains (#8.4)".
- 1993 Winner Bronze Wrangler
- Western Documentary
- Judy Crichton (executive producer)
- Ric Burns (writer/producer/director)
- Lisa Ades (producer)
For episode "The Donner Party".
- 2004 Nominee Black Reel
- Television: Best Original Program
For episode "The Murder of Emmett Till (#15.6)".
- 2005 Winner Erik Barnouw Award
- Winner
- Llewellyn M. Smith (producer/director)
- Elizabeth Deane (series producer/director)
- Patricia Garcia Rios (co-producer/co-director)
Award for "Reconstruction, the Second Civil War"
- 2009 Nominee OFTA Television Award
- Best Informational Program
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