The National Film Award for Best Historical Reconstruction/Compilation Film was one of the National Film Awards presented annually by the Directorate of Film Festivals, the organisation set up by Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, India. It was one of several awards presented for non-feature films.
The award was instituted in 1984, at 32nd National Film Awards and awarded annually for non-feature films produced in the year across the country, in all Indian languages. At the 69th National Film Awards, the award is clubbed with National Film Award for Best Biographical Film, with the new category named as Best Biographical / Historical Reconstruction / Compilation Film.
Awards
Awards legends
Award includes 'Rajat Kamal' (Silver Lotus Award) and cash prize. Following are the award winners over the years:
List of films, showing the year, language(s), producer(s) and director(s) Year Film(s) Language(s) Producer(s) Director(s) 1984 Nehru English Yash Chowdhary Shyam BenegalYuri Aldokhin 1985 No Award 1986 We The People of India English N. S. Thapa Films Division Bhanumurthy Alur 1987 The Story of Delhi English Serbjeet International Films Division Serbjeet Singh 1988 No Award 1989 Chhapakhanar Bangla Haraf Bengali Shreemati ChatterjeeChandrika Bhattacharjee Abhijit Chattopadhyay Kathni Karni Eksi(Jamnalal Bajaj) Hindi M/s Climb Films Bhim Sain 1990 No Award 1991 Anand Bhavan English Yash Chaudhary V. B. Chandra 1992 No Award 1993 No Award 1994 Phalke Children English R. Krishna MohanY. N. Engineer Kamal Swaroop 1995 Bhalji Pendharkar English C. S. NairB. R. Shendge Films Division P. B. Pendharkar Films Division 1996 No Award 1997 Ayyankili: Adhastitharude Vimochakan Malayalam P. SasidharanA. Krishna R. S. Madhu 1998 Anna Vaazhigirar Tamil Tamil Nadu Films Division Tamil Nadu Films Division 1999 No Award 2000 From the land of Buddhism to the Land of Buddha English Kuldip Sinha Films Division Shalini Shah Films Division 2001 No Award 2002 No Award 2003 Vaidyaratnam P. S. Varrier English Kerala State Film Development Corporation T. Krishnan Unni 2004 No Award 2005 Hans Akela: Kumar Gandharva Hindi Films Division Jabbar Patel 2006 No Award 2007 Antardhwani Hindi Films Division Jabbar Patel 2008 The Assassination of Rajiv Gandhi: A Reconstruction English Films Division R. Krishna Mohan 2009 Pancham Unmixed BengaliHindiEnglish Brahmanand S. Siingh Brahmanand S. Siingh 2010 No Award 2011 Vishnupant Damle: Bolpatancha Mook Nayak Marathi Anil Anant Damle Virendra Valsangkar 2012 Celluloid Man EnglishHindiKannadaBengali Shivendra Singh Dungarpur Shivendra Singh Dungarpur 2013 The Last Adieu English Films Division Shabnam Sukhdev 2014 Amar Katha: Story of Binodini Bengali Films Division Tuhinabha Majumder 2015 Life in Metaphors: A Portrait of Girish Kasaravalli EnglishKannada Reelism Film O.P. Shrivastava 2016 Zikr Us Parivaksha: Begum Akhtar English Sangeet Natak Akademi Nirmal Chander 2017 Naachi se Baanchi Films Division of India Biju Toppo Sword of Liberty R. C. Suresh Shiny Jacob Benjamin 2018 No Award 2019 No Award 2020 No Award
References
External links National Film Awards Archives Official Page for Directorate of Film Festivals, India