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Genres

Documentary

1982-Present
NOTE: Documentary as sub-genre of Non-Fiction.
Large format (ex. Everest), concert (music, ex. Woodstock, and comedy, ex. Raw) , compilation (ex. That's Entertainment) and reality TV movies (ex. Jackass) omitted. Hybrids (ex. Never Say Never) are included.



Rows: #1-100, #101-200, #201-300, #301-400, #401-500, #501-600, #601-700, #701-800, #801-900, #901-1000, #1001-1047
RowRankTitle (click to view)StudioLifetime Gross / TheatersOpening / TheatersDate
1 181 La Danse: Le Ballet de L'Opera de Paris Zipporah Films $567,493 25 $14,000 1 11/4/09
2 356 Crazy Horse Zipporah Films $157,782 14 $7,963 1 1/18/12
3 648 Boxing Gym Zipporah Films $32,476 7 n/a - 10/22/10
4 47 The Corporation Zeitgeist $3,493,516 28 $28,671 2 6/4/04
5 91 Bill Cunningham New York Zeitgeist $1,510,026 34 $33,677 1 3/16/11
6 142 Ballets Russes Zeitgeist $815,848 21 $12,230 1 10/26/05
7 145 Into Great Silence Zeitgeist $790,452 19 $11,355 1 2/28/07
8 148 Up the Yangtze Zeitgeist $783,969 23 $15,851 1 4/25/08
9 191 Trouble the Water Zeitgeist $520,151 15 $28,606 3 8/22/08
10 227 Koch Zeitgeist $342,212 16 $35,196 2 2/1/13
11 254 Last Train Home Zeitgeist $288,328 14 $20,418 1 9/3/10
12 283 A Place Called Chiapas Zeitgeist $252,546 - n/a - 11/4/98
13 293 Manufactured Landscapes Zeitgeist $240,239 12 $9,129 1 6/20/07
14 296 Ram Dass: Fierce Grace Zeitgeist $238,260 6 $3,638 2 2/27/02
15 312 Chris & Don. A Love Story Zeitgeist $216,110 12 $10,337 2 6/13/08
16 336 Chop Suey Zeitgeist $179,914 5 $10,472 1 10/5/01
17 357 Derrida Zeitgeist $157,200 6 $11,473 1 10/23/02
18 360 Horse Boy Zeitgeist $156,612 5 $6,554 3 9/30/09
19 362 The Gleaners and I Zeitgeist $155,320 4 $12,655 2 3/7/01
20 402 Examined Life Zeitgeist $120,712 6 $12,085 1 2/25/09
21 435 Afghan Star Zeitgeist $102,115 5 $3,671 1 6/26/09
22 446 Louise Bourgeois: The Spider, The Mistress and the Tangerine Zeitgeist $95,865 4 $9,220 1 6/25/08
23 452 The Brandon Teena Story Zeitgeist $92,113 2 $11,281 1 9/23/98
24 458 Stranded: I Have Come from a Plane That Crashed on the Mountains Zeitgeist $89,473 7 $3,077 1 10/22/08
25 527 Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters Zeitgeist $60,064 3 $1,492 1 11/2/12
26 536 Divan Zeitgeist $56,214 4 $3,560 1 3/17/04
27 544 Ballot Measure 9 Zeitgeist $53,819 1 $8,143 1 3/31/95
28 551 Women, Art, Revolution Zeitgeist $52,681 4 $5,791 2 6/1/11
29 628 Paul Goodman Changed My Life Zeitgeist $35,671 2 $5,754 1 10/19/11
30 642 My Country, My Country Zeitgeist $33,620 4 $3,546 1 8/4/06
31 643 The Turandot Project Zeitgeist $33,504 3 $7,877 2 8/10/01
32 689 Earth Days Zeitgeist $26,748 5 $2,408 1 8/14/09
33 743 Zizek! Zeitgeist $20,177 1 $7,062 1 11/18/05
34 765 One Track Heart: The Story of Krishna Das Zeitgeist $18,462 2 $11,515 1 5/8/13
35 771 Payback (2012) Zeitgeist $17,979 3 $2,186 1 4/25/12
36 789 A Letter to True Zeitgeist $15,635 1 $4,395 1 9/8/04
37 834 Writer of O Zeitgeist $11,728 1 $2,245 1 5/4/05
38 853 China Heavyweight Zeitgeist $10,550 4 $3,792 1 7/6/12
39 861 Act of God Zeitgeist $9,955 1 $522 1 7/31/09
40 873 Out of the Past (1998) Zeitgeist $9,078 1 $1,671 1 7/31/98
41 887 In the Mirror of Maya Deren Zeitgeist $8,077 2 $3,225 1 1/24/03
42 924 Let It Come Down: The Life of Paul Bowles Zeitgeist $5,869 1 $5,869 1 4/30/99
43 753 Storm Surfers 3D Xlrator Media $19,795 3 $7,299 2 4/26/13
44 816 Rock Bottom Wringing Hands Prods. $12,890 1 $4,017 1 3/2/07
45 633 Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan's Hope Wrekin Hill $34,665 6 $8,203 3 4/6/12
46 403 See What I'm Saying: The Deaf Entertainers Documentary Worldplay $118,206 21 $4,996 1 3/19/10
47 645 Sisters in Law Women Make Movies $33,312 2 $4,895 1 4/12/06
48 177 Tarnation Wellspring $592,014 22 $12,740 1 10/6/04
49 209 In the Realms of the Unreal Wellspring $417,120 13 $15,477 3 12/22/04
50 225 The Source Wellspring $362,649 - n/a - 8/25/99
51 395 Unknown White Male Wellspring $126,836 11 $24,591 4 2/24/06
52 574 On the Ropes Wellspring $46,737 5 $7,431 1 8/18/99
53 621 Girlhood Wellspring $37,977 3 $4,845 2 10/29/03
54 654 Reel Paradise Wellspring $31,918 6 $3,100 1 8/17/05
55 979 Beautopia Wellspring $2,870 1 $1,219 1 3/5/99
56 46 Bully (2012) Weinstein Company $3,495,043 6 $116,472 5 3/30/12
57 111 Shut Up and Sing Weinstein Company $1,215,045 84 $50,103 4 10/27/06
58 143 The Tillman Story Weinstein Company $802,535 28 $52,185 4 8/20/10
59 184 Undefeated (2012) Weinstein Company $562,218 21 $33,165 5 2/17/12
60 217 Where in the World Is Osama Bin Laden? Weinstein Company $384,955 102 $148,698 102 4/18/08
61 460 Pete Seeger: The Power of Song Weinstein Company $88,312 3 $11,945 1 10/26/07
62 326 What Would Jesus Buy? Warrior Poets Releasing $200,010 25 $9,527 1 11/16/07
63 62 Freeriders Warren Miller $2,750,064 30 $264,548 11 10/20/98
64 69 Snowriders 2 Warren Miller $2,287,639 - n/a - 10/15/97
65 74 Snowriders Warren Miller $2,068,490 - n/a - 10/16/96
66 76 Endless Winter Warren Miller $1,966,454 - n/a - 10/20/95
67 77 Vertical Reality Warren Miller $1,951,429 - n/a - 10/19/94
68 84 Black Diamond Rush Warren Miller $1,634,386 47 $161,115 11 10/12/93
69 2 March of the Penguins Warner Independent $77,437,223 2,506 $137,492 4 6/24/05
70 160 The 11th Hour Warner Independent $707,343 111 $60,853 4 8/17/07
71 422 Darfur Now Warner Independent $109,107 24 $23,217 3 11/2/07
72 23 Roger and Me Warner Bros. $6,706,368 265 $80,253 4 12/22/89
73 41 Imagine: John Lennon Warner Bros. $3,753,977 561 $1,412,213 561 10/7/88
74 151 Listen Up: The Lives of Quincy Jones Warner Bros. $776,699 111 $99,740 26 10/5/90
75 179 Elvis On Tour 75th Anniversary Warner Bros. $587,818 - n/a - 7/29/10
76 192 Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser Warner Bros. $518,918 11 $31,842 2 10/1/89
77 218 Into the Arms of Strangers Warner Bros. $382,807 18 $32,037 5 9/15/00
78 572 Collapse Vitagraph $46,964 5 $7,800 1 11/6/09
79 774 Sunset Story Vitagraph $17,508 3 $2,966 1 2/25/05
80 980 Knuckle Vitagraph $2,647 3 $2,647 3 12/9/11
81 210 Sound City Variance Films $412,605 50 $62,842 16 2/1/13
82 389 Until the Light Takes Us Variance Films $130,441 3 $7,246 1 12/4/09
83 451 American: The Bill Hicks Story Variance Films $92,234 11 $5,872 1 4/8/11
84 499 Strange Powers: Stephin Merritt and the Magnetic Fields Variance Films $68,719 5 $4,620 1 10/27/10
85 522 How to Live Forever Variance Films $60,630 4 $3,716 1 5/13/11
86 542 The Lottery Variance Films $54,543 3 $16,435 1 6/11/10
87 607 Addiction Incorporated Variance Films $40,106 5 $1,629 1 12/14/11
88 638 Hit So Hard Variance Films $34,025 4 $6,500 1 4/13/12
89 664 Walking on Dead Fish Variance Films $30,328 4 $10,524 1 9/19/08
90 693 Nursery University Variance Films $26,042 4 $11,307 1 4/24/09
91 806 Head Games Variance Films $14,056 5 $1,152 2 9/21/12
92 842 After the Cup: Sons of Sakhnin United Variance Films $11,538 3 $2,501 1 5/21/10
93 928 Elevate Variance Films $5,580 2 $3,547 1 10/21/11
94 975 The Weird World of Blowfly Variance Films $3,062 1 $1,036 1 9/16/11
95 - General Orders No. 9 Variance Films n/a 1 n/a 1 6/24/11
96 649 Fuel Unknown $32,465 4 $12,386 4 9/18/09
97 951 Twisted: A Balloonamentary Unknown $4,218 2 $2,354 1 5/23/08
98 154 First Descent Universal $750,805 243 $438,615 243 12/2/05
99 163 Inside Deep Throat Universal $691,880 27 $88,709 12 2/11/05
100 10 Bowling for Columbine United Artists $21,576,018 248 $209,148 8 10/11/02
TOTAL (All Movies):$976,967,439----
AVERAGE (All Movies):$955,93747$132,54325-
TOTAL
(Wide Releases Only):		$498,427,158----
AVERAGE
(Wide Releases Only):		$31,151,6971,544$9,246,2991,474-
Rows: #1-100, #101-200, #201-300, #301-400, #401-500, #501-600, #601-700, #701-800, #801-900, #901-1000, #1001-1047


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UPCOMING RELEASES
Title (click to view)StudioRelease Date
Persons of Interest FRun 9/3/04
Muscle Shoals Magn. Summer 2013
We Steal Secrets: The Story of Wikileaks Focus 5/24/13
Triumph of the Wall FRun 5/31/13
Evocateur: The Morton Downey Jr. Movie Magn. 6/7/13
Dirty Wars IFC 6/7/13
Far Out Isn't Far Enough: The Tomi Ungerer Story FRun 6/14/13
20 Feet from Stardom RTWC 6/14/13
Call Me Kuchu Cdgm. 6/14/13
How to Make Money Selling Drugs Trib. 6/26/13
Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me Magn. 7/3/13
Cutie and the Boxer RTWC 8/16/13
Salinger Wein. 9/6/13
Le Joli Mai Icar. 9/13/13
Bears BV 4/18/14