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The Highest Grossing Documentaries of All Time

Highest Grossing Documentaries 1982-Present

Ranked by total gross. In descending order.

(Last update: November 3, 2009)

(found at: http://www.boxofficemojo.com/genres/chart/?id=documentary.htm)

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1. Fahrenheit 9/11  
2. March of the Penguins (Widescreen Edition)
by Luc Jacquet
  
3. Earth  
4. Sicko (Special Edition)
by Michael Moore
  
5. An Inconvenient Truth
by Davis Guggenheim
  
6. Bowling for Columbine  
7. Madonna - Truth or Dare
by Alek Keshishian
  
8.
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 Capitalism: A Love Story [Theatrical Release]
by Michael Moore
  
9. Religulous
by Larry Charles
  
10. Winged Migration
by Jacques Perrin
  
11. Super Size Me  
12. Mad Hot Ballroom
by Marilyn Agrelo
  
13. Hoop Dreams - Criterion Collection  
14. Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed  
15. Tupac - Resurrection (Widescreen Edition)
by Lauren Lazin
  
16. Roger & Me  
17. The Aristocrats  
18. Spellbound
by Jeffrey Blitz
  
19.
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 Shine a Light  
20. Touching the Void
by Kevin Macdonald
  
21. Food, Inc.
by Robert Kenner
  
22. The Fog of War - Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara  
23. Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room  
24. Young@Heart
by Stephen Walker
  
25. Paris Is Burning
by Jennie Livingston
  
26. Imagine (Deluxe Edition)
by Andrew Solt
  
27. Step into Liquid
by Dana Brown (II)
  
28. The September Issue  
29. Born into Brothels  
30. The Corporation (2-Disc Special Edition)
by Jennifer Abbott
  
31.
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 Good Hair
by Jeff Stilson
  
32. Rize
by David LaChapelle
  
33. Grizzly Man  
34. Wordplay
by Patrick Creadon
  
35. Capturing the Friedmans
by Andrew Jarecki
  
36. The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill  
37. Crumb (Special Edition)
by Terry Zwigoff
  
38. Man on Wire
by James Marsh
  
39. Unzipped
by Douglas Keeve
  
40. When We Were Kings
by Leon Gast
  
41. Comedian
by Christian Charles
  
42. My Architect: A Son's Journey  
43.
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 Freeriders (1998)
by Brian Sisselman
  
44. Control Room
by Jehane Noujaim
  
45. The Endurance - Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition
by George Butler (II)
  
46. Warren Miller's Snowriders 2: The Journey Continues  
47. A Brief History of Time
by Errol Morris
  
48. Riding Giants (Special Edition)
by Stacy Peralta
  
49. Andy Goldsworthy's Rivers & Tides
by Thomas Riedelsheimer
  
50. The Endless Summer II  
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Created by A L E E M 2.43 on Mar 31, 2006.