The Highest Grossing Documentaries of All Time

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Highest Grossing Documentaries 1982-Present

Ranked by total gross. In descending order.

(Last update: November 3, 2009)

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  1. 1.
    Fahrenheit 9/11

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  2. 2.
    March of the Penguins (Widescreen Edition)
    by Luc Jacquet

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  3. 3.
    Earth

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  4. 4.
    Sicko (Special Edition)
    by Michael Moore

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  5. 5.
    An Inconvenient Truth
    by Davis Guggenheim

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  6. 6.
    Bowling for Columbine

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  7. 7.
    Madonna - Truth or Dare
    by Alek Keshishian

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  8. 8.
    Capitalism: A Love Story [Theatrical Release]
    by Michael Moore

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  9. 9.
    Religulous
    by Larry Charles

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  10. 10.
    Winged Migration
    by Jacques Perrin

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  11. 11.
    Super Size Me

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  12. 12.
    Mad Hot Ballroom
    by Marilyn Agrelo

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  14. 14.
    Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed

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  15. 15.
    Tupac - Resurrection (Widescreen Edition)
    by Lauren Lazin

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  16. 16.
    Roger & Me

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  17. 17.
    The Aristocrats

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  18. 18.
    Spellbound
    by Jeffrey Blitz

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  19. 19.
    Shine a Light

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  20. 20.
    Touching the Void
    by Kevin Macdonald

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  21. 21.
    Food, Inc.
    by Robert Kenner

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  23. 24.
    Young@Heart
    by Stephen Walker

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  24. 25.
    Paris Is Burning
    by Jennie Livingston

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  25. 26.
    Imagine (Deluxe Edition)
    by Andrew Solt

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  26. 27.
    Step into Liquid
    by Dana Brown (II)

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  27. 28.
    The September Issue

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  28. 29.
    Born into Brothels

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  29. 30.
    The Corporation (2-Disc Special Edition)
    by Jennifer Abbott

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    Good Hair
    by Jeff Stilson

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  31. 32.
    Rize
    by David LaChapelle

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  32. 33.
    Grizzly Man

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  33. 34.
    Wordplay
    by Patrick Creadon

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  34. 35.
    Capturing the Friedmans
    by Andrew Jarecki

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  36. 37.
    Crumb (Special Edition)
    by Terry Zwigoff

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  37. 38.
    Man on Wire
    by James Marsh

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  38. 39.
    Unzipped
    by Douglas Keeve

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  39. 40.
    When We Were Kings
    by Leon Gast

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  40. 41.
    Comedian
    by Christian Charles

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  41. 42.
    My Architect: A Son's Journey

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  42. 43.
    Freeriders (1998)
    by Brian Sisselman

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  43. 44.
    Control Room
    by Jehane Noujaim

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  44. 45.
    The Endurance - Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition
    by George Butler (II)

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  45. 47.
    A Brief History of Time
    by Errol Morris

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  46. 48.
    Riding Giants (Special Edition)
    by Stacy Peralta

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  47. 49.
    Andy Goldsworthy's Rivers & Tides
    by Thomas Riedelsheimer

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  48. 50.
    The Endless Summer II

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Comments

greenfruit
Augusta

Update — 2 weeks ago

I updated the list according to the list source. There were several new additions and ranking order changes.


Untitled — 34 weeks ago

I just updated this list according to the updates at the list source.


drscience
Amherst

Wrong movie — 1 year ago

91 on this list isn’t The Big Red One, it’s supposed to be The Big One, Michael Moore’s 1997 documentary.