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: February 9, 2010)

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  1. 1.
    Fahrenheit 9/11

  2. 2.
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    March of the Penguins (Widescreen Edition)
    by Luc Jacquet
  3. 3.
    Disney Nature Earth

  4. 4.
    Sicko (Special Edition)
    by Michael Moore
  5. 5.
    An Inconvenient Truth
    by Davis Guggenheim
  6. 6.
    Bowling for Columbine

  7. 7.
    Madonna - Truth or Dare
    by Alek Keshishian
  8. 8.
    Capitalism: A Love Story
    by Michael Moore
  9. 9.
    Religulous
    by Larry Charles
  10. 10.
    Winged Migration (Special Edition)
    by Jacques Perrin
  11. 11.
    Super Size Me

  12. 12.
    Mad Hot Ballroom
    by Marilyn Agrelo
  13. 13.
  14. 14.
    Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed

  16. 16.
    Roger & Me
    by Michael Moore
  17. 17.
    The Aristocrats

  18. 18.
    Spellbound

  19. 19.
    Shine a Light
    by Martin Scorsese
  20. 20.
    Touching the Void
    by Kevin Macdonald
  21. 21.
    Food, Inc.
    by Robert Kenner
  23. 23.
    Good Hair
    by Jeff Stilson
  24. 24.
  25. 25.
    Young@Heart
    by Sally George
  26. 26.
    The September Issue

  27. 27.
    Paris Is Burning
    by Jennie Livingston
  28. 28.
    Imagine (Deluxe Edition)
    by Andrew Solt
  29. 29.
    Step into Liquid

  30. 30.
    Born into Brothels
    by Ross Kauffman
  32. 32.
    Rize
    by David LaChapelle
  33. 33.
    Grizzly Man
    by Werner Herzog
  34. 34.
    Wordplay
    by Patrick Creadon
  35. 35.
    Capturing the Friedmans
    by Andrew Jarecki
  36. 36.
  37. 37.
    Crumb (Special Edition)
    by Terry Zwigoff
  38. 38.
    Man on Wire
    by James Marsh
  39. 39.
    Unzipped
    by Douglas Keeve
  40. 40.
    When We Were Kings
    by Leon Gast
  41. 41.
    Comedian

  42. 42.
    My Architect

  43. 43.
    Freeriders (1998)
    by Brian Sisselman
  44. 44.
    Control Room
    by Jehane Noujaim
  45. 45.
  47. 47.
    A Brief History of Time
    by Errol Morris
  48. 48.
    Riding Giants (Special Edition)
    by Stacy Peralta
  49. 49.
    Andy Goldsworthy's Rivers & Tides
    by Thomas Riedelsheimer
  50. 50.
    The Endless Summer II
    by Bruce Brown

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Created by A L E E M 2.43 on Mar 31, 2006.
 

Comments

sarah

Untitled — 1 year ago

Oh come on – no Fistful of Quarters?

Dec 11, 08:39AM | 0 comments | Reply to this

greenfruit

Update — 2 years ago

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

Nov 03, 03:26PM | 0 comments | Reply to this

honeypants

Untitled — 2 years ago

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

Mar 22, 04:34PM | 0 comments | Reply to this

drscience

Wrong movie — 4 years ago

  1. on this list isn’t The Big Red One, it’s supposed to be The Big One, Michael Moore’s 1997 documentary.
Jan 05, 11:54PM | 0 comments | Reply to this



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