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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
1 950 This Divided State Minority Films $4,255 1 $1,653 1 7/22/05
2 13 Madonna: Truth or Dare Miramax $15,012,935 652 $543,250 51 5/10/91
3 40 Paris is Burning Miramax $3,779,620 91 $310,127 23 8/9/91
4 58 Unzipped Miramax $2,875,086 119 $71,275 2 8/4/95
5 60 Comedian Miramax $2,751,988 244 $60,224 4 10/11/02
6 87 Rhyme & Reason Miramax $1,608,277 280 $853,589 280 3/7/97
7 95 Microcosmos Miramax $1,433,210 43 $35,189 2 10/9/96
8 112 The Thin Blue Line Miramax $1,209,846 23 $17,814 1 8/26/88
9 158 The Big One Miramax $720,074 53 $146,909 33 4/10/98
10 186 Incident at Oglala Miramax $536,848 12 $19,070 3 5/8/92
11 202 The Heart of the Game Miramax $445,374 21 $11,251 3 6/9/06
12 268 American Dream Miramax $269,823 7 $9,291 2 3/18/92
13 375 Once in a Lifetime Miramax $144,601 12 $9,805 1 7/7/06
14 383 Naqoyqatsi Miramax $133,058 9 $17,154 2 10/18/02
15 386 Deep Blue Miramax $132,261 5 $8,373 2 6/3/05
16 733 Small Wonders Miramax $20,819 7 $2,880 1 10/4/96
17 794 Full-Tilt Boogie Miramax $15,313 6 $9,895 6 7/31/98
18 836 My Voyage to Italy Miramax $11,683 1 $7,117 1 10/24/01
19 619 Oh My God? Mitropoulos Films $38,244 7 $8,263 3 11/13/09
20 697 Gotta Dance Mitropoulos Films $25,108 4 $8,576 1 7/31/09
21 967 The Price of Sugar Mitropoulos Films $3,384 1 $3,384 1 9/28/07
22 754 Favela Rising Mochary Films $19,781 2 $7,768 1 6/2/06
23 306 10 Questions for the Dalai Lama Monterey Media, Inc. $224,546 11 n/a - 4/27/07
24 835 One Peace at a Time Monterey Media, Inc. $11,698 2 $4,138 1 12/4/09
25 852 whaledreamers Monterey Media, Inc. $10,584 6 $1,827 6 9/26/08
26 461 The Cartel Moving Pictures Institute $87,763 2 $3,694 2 4/16/10
27 228 Happy People: A Year in the Taiga Music Box Films $337,141 23 $10,481 1 1/25/13
28 465 Marina Abramovic: The Artist is Present Music Box Films $86,637 5 $11,041 2 6/13/12
29 29 Flying Monsters National Geographic Entertainment $5,217,211 27 n/a 6 10/7/11
30 100 Restrepo National Geographic Entertainment $1,330,894 52 $35,581 2 6/25/10
31 134 The Wildest Dream National Geographic Entertainment $898,137 21 $67,848 12 8/6/10
32 170 The Last Lions National Geographic Entertainment $635,325 61 $53,344 4 2/18/11
33 282 Life in a Day National Geographic Entertainment $252,788 19 $45,202 11 7/29/11
34 812 Benda Bilili! National Geographic Entertainment $13,420 3 $1,678 1 9/30/11
35 73 The Endless Summer II New Line $2,155,385 302 $657,292 302 6/3/94
36 188 Wild Man Blues New Line $533,759 25 $54,458 3 4/17/98
37 223 The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years New Line $373,743 21 $45,008 21 6/3/88
38 606 Yiddish Theater: A Love Story New Love Films $40,182 3 $1,886 1 11/21/07
39 61 My Architect New Yorker $2,750,707 39 $37,929 2 11/12/03
40 146 Trembling Before G-d New Yorker $788,896 8 $21,410 1 10/24/01
41 150 To Be and to Have New Yorker $777,129 14 $20,528 3 9/19/03
42 272 Life and Debt New Yorker $263,107 4 $1,494 1 6/16/01
43 411 After Innocence New Yorker $114,264 4 $10,194 1 10/21/05
44 445 Paragraph 175 New Yorker $96,630 2 $25,007 2 9/13/00
45 507 Absolute Wilson New Yorker $66,217 3 $6,879 2 10/27/06
46 598 Sobibor, October 14, 1943, 4PM New Yorker $41,040 2 $7,412 1 10/12/01
47 616 Tsahal New Yorker $38,773 1 $12,195 1 1/27/95
48 874 ABC Africa New Yorker $9,075 1 $559 1 5/3/02
49 - The Sky Turns (El cielo gira) New Yorker n/a 1 n/a 1 2/11/11
50 248 God Grew Tired of Us Newmarket $301,447 10 $21,858 2 1/12/07
51 418 In the Face of Evil: Reagan's War in Word and Deed Non-Fiction Films $110,577 15 $46,975 6 10/1/04
52 516 Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision Ocean Releasing $62,186 6 $2,273 1 10/20/95
53 132 The War Room October $901,668 21 $15,264 1 11/3/93
54 208 The Last Days October $421,432 32 $20,492 3 2/5/99
55 584 Moving the Mountain October $44,536 3 $3,199 1 4/26/95
56 477 Harvest of Empire Onyx Films $79,627 2 n/a - 9/28/12
57 839 Crop Circles: Quest for Truth Open Edge $11,562 1 $5,763 1 8/23/02
58 699 Eat This New York Organic Pictures $24,640 2 $5,847 2 1/30/04
59 981 Risk/Reward Organic Pictures $2,517 1 $2,517 1 2/27/04
60 281 Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey Orion Classics $253,311 11 $8,335 1 8/25/95
61 63 Samsara Oscilloscope Pictures $2,672,413 70 $76,222 2 8/24/12
62 194 Shut Up and Play the Hits Oscilloscope Pictures $510,334 161 n/a - 7/18/12
63 233 A Film Unfinished Oscilloscope Pictures $320,486 16 $34,060 4 8/18/10
64 246 Unmistaken Child Oscilloscope Pictures $306,140 6 $6,293 1 6/3/09
65 377 FLOW: For Love of Water Oscilloscope Pictures $142,569 11 $3,644 1 3/21/08
66 440 No Impact Man Oscilloscope Pictures $100,028 8 $15,215 2 9/11/09
67 518 If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front Oscilloscope Pictures $61,794 5 $5,634 2 6/22/11
68 545 The Other F Word Oscilloscope Pictures $53,714 6 $15,792 2 11/4/11
69 557 Burma VJ Oscilloscope Pictures $51,672 3 $5,554 1 5/20/09
70 559 Gunnin' for That #1 Spot Oscilloscope Pictures $50,804 14 $20,355 14 6/27/08
71 577 William S. Burroughs: A Man Within Oscilloscope Pictures $46,380 4 $6,510 1 11/17/10
72 686 The Garden Oscilloscope Pictures $26,931 4 $4,114 1 4/24/09
73 756 Tchoupitoulas Oscilloscope Pictures $19,375 6 $2,379 1 12/7/12
74 766 Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father Oscilloscope Pictures $18,334 3 $2,886 1 10/31/08
75 795 Only the Young Oscilloscope Pictures $15,312 2 $1,446 1 12/7/12
76 822 Rebirth Oscilloscope Pictures $12,358 4 $2,740 1 8/31/11
77 189 Sex Is... Outsider Films $530,833 6 n/a - 5/7/93
78 1004 'Tis Autumn: The Search for Jackie Paris Outsider Films $1,476 1 $1,476 1 12/7/07
79 14 Capitalism: A Love Story Overture Films $14,363,397 995 $231,964 4 9/23/09
80 147 Bill W. Page 124 Productions $784,333 31 n/a - 5/18/12
81 88 I Am Paladin $1,591,034 74 $10,092 1 2/18/11
82 472 The Whale Paladin $81,881 5 $4,835 2 9/9/11
83 573 Connected Paladin $46,782 7 $13,301 3 9/16/11
84 588 Love Etc. Paladin $43,593 2 $8,781 2 7/1/11
85 627 Mansome Paladin $36,280 20 $18,395 20 5/18/12
86 700 Otter 501 Paladin $24,449 4 $5,444 3 5/11/12
87 772 Great Directors Paladin $17,921 4 $5,440 3 7/2/10
88 482 This is Not a Film Palisades Tartan $77,016 5 $12,608 5 2/29/12
89 174 Gunner Palace Palm $607,844 56 $63,520 8 3/4/05
90 253 Scratch Palm $289,885 7 $29,677 5 2/15/02
91 371 Stoked: The Rise and Fall of Gator Palm $150,268 13 $10,998 1 8/22/03
92 391 Be Here to Love Me: A Film About Townes Van Zandt Palm $129,988 5 $9,098 1 12/2/05
93 394 DIG! Palm $127,067 10 $20,437 2 10/1/04
94 485 The Nomi Song Palm $74,631 3 $14,510 2 2/4/05
95 585 William Eggleston in the Real World Palm $44,435 2 $6,820 1 8/31/05
96 592 Mandela Palm $42,056 8 $8,413 8 3/21/97
97 599 Tom Dowd and the Language of Music Palm $40,919 10 $16,522 10 8/13/04
98 659 Patti Smith: Dream of Life Palm $30,918 1 $9,993 1 8/6/08
99 671 Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Impassioned Eye Palm $29,710 2 $7,235 2 1/13/06
100 682 Who Gets to Call It Art? Palm $27,344 1 $7,520 1 2/1/06
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