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: April 6, 2012)

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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.
    Justin Bieber: Never Say Never
    by John Chu

  4. 4.
    Disney Nature Earth

  5. 5.
    Sicko (Special Edition)
    by Michael Moore

  6. 6.
    An Inconvenient Truth
    by Davis Guggenheim

  7. 7.
    Bowling for Columbine

  8. 8.
    Disneynature: Oceans
    by Jacques Perrin

  9. 9.
    IMAX: Born to Be Wild (+ UltraViolet Digital Copy)
    by David Lickley

  10. 11.
    Madonna - Truth or Dare
    by Alek Keshishian

  11. 12.
    Capitalism: A Love Story
    by Michael Moore

  12. 13.
    Religulous
    by Larry Charles

  13. 14.
    Winged Migration (Special Edition)
    by Jacques Perrin

  14. 15.
    Super Size Me

  15. 16.
    Mad Hot Ballroom
    by Marilyn Agrelo

  16. 17.

  17. 18.
    Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed

  18. 20.
    Babies
    by Thomas Balmes

  19. 21.
    Roger & Me
    by Michael Moore

  20. 22.
    Waiting for "Superman"
    by Davis Guggenheim

  21. 23.
    The Aristocrats

  22. 24.
    Spellbound

  23. 25.
    Shine a Light
    by Martin Scorsese

  24. 26.
    Cave of Forgotten Dreams
    by Werner Herzog

  25. 27.
    Touching the Void
    by Kevin Macdonald

  26. 28.
    Food, Inc.
    by Robert Kenner

  27. 29.
    Inside Job
    by Charles Ferguson

  28. 30.
    That's Dancing!
    by Jr. Jack Haley

  29. 32.
    Good Hair
    by Jeff Stilson

  30. 33.

  31. 34.
    Buck
    by Cindy Meehl

  32. 35.
    Young@Heart
    by Sally George

  33. 36.
    The September Issue

  34. 37.
    Paris Is Burning
    by Jennie Livingston

  35. 38.
    Imagine: John Lennon (Deluxe Edition)
    by Andrew Solt

  36. 39.
    Step into Liquid
    by Dana Brown

  37. 40.
    Born into Brothels
    by Ross Kauffman

  38. 42.
    Pina
    by Wim Wenders

  39. 43.
    Rize
    by David LaChapelle

  40. 44.
    EXIT THROUGH THE GIFT SHOP
    by Banksy

  41. 45.
    Catfish
    by Ariel Schulman Henry Joost

  42. 46.
    Grizzly Man
    by Werner Herzog

  43. 47.
    Wordplay
    by Patrick Creadon

  44. 48.
    Capturing the Friedmans
    by Andrew Jarecki

  45. 49.

  46. 50.
    Crumb (Special Edition)
    by Terry Zwigoff

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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 — 3 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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