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

  15. 16.
    Roger & Me
    by Michael Moore

  16. 17.
    The Aristocrats

  17. 18.
    Spellbound

  18. 19.
    Shine a Light
    by Martin Scorsese

  19. 20.
    Touching the Void
    by Kevin Macdonald

  20. 21.
    Food, Inc.
    by Robert Kenner

  21. 23.
    Good Hair
    by Jeff Stilson

  22. 24.

  23. 25.
    Young@Heart
    by Sally George

  24. 26.
    The September Issue

  25. 27.
    Paris Is Burning
    by Jennie Livingston

  26. 28.
    Imagine (Deluxe Edition)
    by Andrew Solt

  27. 29.
    Step into Liquid

  28. 30.
    Born into Brothels
    by Ross Kauffman

  29. 32.
    Rize
    by David LaChapelle

  30. 33.
    Grizzly Man
    by Werner Herzog

  31. 34.
    Wordplay
    by Patrick Creadon

  32. 35.
    Capturing the Friedmans
    by Andrew Jarecki

  33. 36.

  34. 37.
    Crumb (Special Edition)
    by Terry Zwigoff

  35. 38.
    Man on Wire
    by James Marsh

  36. 39.
    Unzipped
    by Douglas Keeve

  37. 40.
    When We Were Kings
    by Leon Gast

  38. 41.
    Comedian

  39. 42.
    My Architect

  40. 43.
    Freeriders (1998)
    by Brian Sisselman

  41. 44.
    Control Room
    by Jehane Noujaim

  42. 45.

  43. 47.
    A Brief History of Time
    by Errol Morris

  44. 48.
    Riding Giants (Special Edition)
    by Stacy Peralta

  45. 49.
    Andy Goldsworthy's Rivers & Tides
    by Thomas Riedelsheimer

  46. 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

Untitled — 1 year ago

Oh come on – no Fistful of Quarters?


Update — 2 years ago

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


Untitled — 2 years ago

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


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.



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