| The Love Goddesses | Saul J. Turell | United States |
| Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment | Robert Drew | United States |
| Moravian Hellas | Karel Vachek | Czechoslovak Socialist Republic |
| The Yanks Are Coming | Marshall Flaum | United States |
| À St-Henri le cinq septembre | Hubert Aquin | Canada |
| A Man Has Returned from Space | Yekaterina Vermisheva | Soviet Union |
| First Flight to the Stars | Ilya Kopalin, Dmitry Bogolepov, Grigori Kosenko | Soviet Union |
| Manger | Louis Portugais, Gilles Carle | Canada |
| Royal River | Gordon Sparling | Canada |
| The Kurnell Story | Ken G. Hall | Australia |
| Torero | Carlos Velo | Mexico |
| Naked Sea | Allen H. Miner | United States |
| Siam | Ralph Wright | United States |
| The Song of the Rivers | Robert Ménégoz, Joris Ivens, Joop Huisken | East Germany, Germany |
| The Stratford Adventure | Morten Parker | Canada |
| Below the Sahara | Armand Denis | United States |
| The Hoaxters | Herman Hoffman | United States |
| Blooming Ukraine | Mikhail Slutsky | Soviet Union |
| The Golden Twenties | — | United States |
| Day of the victorious country | Ilya Kopalin, Irina Setkina-Nesterova | Soviet Union |
| The Secret Land | Orville O. Dull | United States |
| Theirs Is the Glory | Terence Young, Brian Desmond Hurst | United Kingdom |
| Giorni di gloria | Luchino Visconti, Mario Serandrei, Giuseppe De Santis, Marcello Pagliero | Italy |
| Daily News | — | Soviet Union |
| The Great Victory at Leningrad | Pavel Palley, Valery Solovtsov | Soviet Union |
| When Asia Speaks | Gordon Weisenborn | Canada |
| Desert Victory | David MacDonald, Roy Boulting | United Kingdom |
| Girls at the Front | Turo Kartto | Finland |
| Report from the Aleutians | John Huston | United States |
| Tomorrow's World | — | Canada |
| Ya viene el cortejo... | Carlos Arévalo | Francoist Spain |
| The Cameras of Valentin Vaala | — | Finland |
| Erbkrank | Herbert Gerdes | Nazi Germany |
| Odessa | Jean Lods | Soviet Union |
| Man of Aran | Robert J. Flaherty | United Kingdom |
| Bring 'Em Back Alive | Clyde E. Elliott | United States |
| Country of Nairi | Hamo Beknazarian | Soviet Union |