| Rank
| Title
| Lifetime Gross | Max Theaters | Opening | Open Th | Release Date | Distributor
|
|---|
| 1 | Happy Feet | $198,000,317 | 3,804 | $41,533,432 | 3,804 | Nov 17, 2006 | Warner Bros. |
| 2 | Ice Age: The Meltdown | $195,330,621 | 3,969 | $68,033,544 | 3,964 | Mar 31, 2006 | Twentieth Century Fox |
| 3 | Ice Age | $176,387,405 | 3,345 | $46,312,454 | 3,316 | Mar 15, 2002 | Twentieth Century Fox |
| 4 | The Polar Express | $162,775,358 | 3,650 | $23,323,463 | 3,650 | Nov 10, 2004 | Warner Bros. |
| 5 | Eight Below | $81,612,565 | 3,122 | $20,188,176 | 3,066 | Feb 17, 2006 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures |
| 6 | Snow Dogs | $81,172,560 | 2,454 | $17,814,259 | 2,302 | Jan 18, 2002 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures |
| 7 | March of the Penguins | $77,437,223 | 2,506 | $137,492 | 4 | Jun 24, 2005 | Warner Independent Pictures (WIP) |
| 8 | Alive | $36,733,909 | 1,337 | $8,624,292 | 1,132 | Jan 15, 1993 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures |
| 9 | White Fang | $34,793,160 | 1,259 | $5,640,712 | 1,108 | Jan 18, 1991 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures |
| 10 | Iron Will | $21,006,361 | 2,036 | $5,313,406 | 1,901 | Jan 14, 1994 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures |
| 11 | The Thing | $19,857,465 | 910 | $3,107,897 | 840 | Jun 25, 1982 | Universal Pictures |
| 12 | Balto | $11,348,324 | 1,433 | $1,519,755 | 1,427 | Dec 22, 1995 | Universal Pictures |
| 13 | The Ice Storm | $8,038,061 | 230 | $75,183 | 3 | Sep 27, 1997 | - |
| 14 | Touching the Void | $4,593,598 | 137 | $96,973 | 5 | Jan 23, 2004 | IFC Films |
| 15 | The Endurance | $2,453,083 | 40 | $18,931 | 3 | Oct 5, 2001 | Cowboy Pictures |
| 16 | Smilla's Sense of Snow | $2,372,903 | 135 | $107,108 | 8 | Feb 28, 1997 | - |
