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Genres

Documentary - Political

1982-Present



Rows: #1-100, #101-127
RankTitle (click to view)StudioLifetime Gross / TheatersOpening / TheatersDate
1 Fahrenheit 9/11 Lions $119,194,771 2,011 $23,920,637 868 6/23/04
2 2016 Obama's America RM $33,449,086 2,017 $31,610 1 7/13/12
3 Sicko LGF $24,540,079 1,117 $68,969 1 6/22/07
4 An Inconvenient Truth ParC $24,146,161 587 $281,330 4 5/24/06
5 Bowling for Columbine UA $21,576,018 248 $209,148 8 10/11/02
6 America (2014) LGF $14,444,502 1,105 $38,608 3 6/27/14
7 Capitalism: A Love Story Over. $14,363,397 995 $231,964 4 9/23/09
8 Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed RM $7,720,487 1,052 $2,970,848 1,052 4/18/08
9 Roger and Me WB $6,706,368 265 $80,253 4 12/22/89
10 Inside Job SPC $4,312,735 250 $39,649 2 10/8/10
11 The Fog of War SPC $4,198,566 261 $41,449 3 12/19/03
12 The Corporation Zeit. $3,493,516 28 $28,671 2 6/4/04
13 Citizenfour RTWC $2,800,870 105 $126,321 5 10/24/14
14 Control Room Magn. $2,589,616 74 $27,125 1 5/21/04
15 Why We Fight SPC $1,439,972 64 $53,571 6 1/20/06
16 No End in Sight Magn. $1,433,319 117 $31,533 2 7/27/07
17 Inequality for All RTWC $1,205,273 103 $140,888 28 9/27/13
18 The U.S. Vs. John Lennon LGF $1,109,146 65 $69,143 6 9/15/06
19 The War Room Oct. $901,668 21 $15,264 1 11/3/93
20 I.O.U.S.A. RAtt. $821,046 358 $61,313 18 8/22/08
21 The Big One Mira. $720,074 53 $146,909 33 4/10/98
22 Going Upriver: The Long War of John Kerry Think $614,138 163 $279,219 163 10/1/04
23 The Weather Underground Shad. $564,632 14 $13,984 1 6/4/03
24 Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry IFC $534,100 37 $41,104 5 7/27/12
25 The Trials of Henry Kissinger FRun $516,726 8 $14,667 1 9/25/02
26 Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism Libre $461,572 18 $77,982 5 8/6/04
27 The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers FRun $453,650 12 $1,114 1 1/29/10
28 I Want Your Money Free $433,588 537 $249,428 537 10/15/10
29 Where in the World Is Osama Bin Laden? Wein. $384,955 102 $148,698 102 4/18/08
30 Dirty Wars IFC $384,473 31 $63,504 4 6/7/13
31 The Hunting of the President Reg. $376,612 20 $23,298 2 6/18/04
32 Koch Zeit. $342,941 16 $35,196 2 2/1/13
33 Grass Una. $313,039 10 $21,578 2 5/31/00
34 For the Bible Tells Me So FRun $312,751 15 $7,412 1 10/5/07
35 The Panama Deception EPr $309,596 11 $6,563 1 7/31/92
36 Power and Terror: Noam Chomsky in Our Times FRun $292,470 4 $9,442 1 11/22/02
37 Outrage Magn. $287,198 18 $32,589 5 5/8/09
38 The Unknown Known RTWC $276,497 80 $64,315 18 4/4/14
39 Taxi to the Dark Side Think $274,661 20 $10,930 2 1/18/08
40 The Yes Men UA $255,364 32 $24,373 3 9/24/04
41 The War Tapes SenA $254,190 9 $12,268 1 6/2/06
42 A Place Called Chiapas Zeit. $252,546 - n/a - 11/4/98
43 Uncovered: The War on Iraq Libre $238,924 22 $31,481 7 8/20/04
44 Call + Response FTrd. $215,185 17 $41,346 12 10/10/08
45 Iraq in Fragments Arab $204,462 12 $24,435 7 11/8/06
46 The Yes Men Fix the World Shad. $194,533 16 $1,242 2 9/25/09
47 Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer Magn. $189,416 17 $16,962 3 11/5/10
48 Bush's Brain Tar. $177,525 9 $11,927 4 8/20/04
49 Chicago 10 RAtt. $177,490 14 $42,724 14 2/29/08
50 Casino Jack and the United States of Money Magn. $176,865 21 $28,234 9 5/7/10
51 An Unreasonable Man IFC $176,647 11 $9,813 1 1/31/07
52 Our Brand Is Crisis Koch $166,750 2 $7,970 1 3/1/06
53 Citizen Koch Vari. $153,908 24 $10,200 1 6/6/14
54 Brothers at War Gold. $153,148 18 $33,142 7 3/13/09
55 FLOW: For Love of Water Osci. $142,569 11 $3,644 1 3/21/08
56 Waco: The Rules of Engagement Som. $142,193 5 n/a - 2/28/97
57 A Perfect Candidate 7Art $134,485 8 n/a - 6/19/96
58 Escape Fire RAtt. $126,238 12 $30,953 12 10/5/12
59 The Last Mountain Da. $122,961 7 $17,570 2 6/3/11
60 Howard Zinn: You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train FRun $122,011 4 n/a - 6/18/04
61 Fidel FRun $121,304 2 $19,320 2 10/18/02
62 The Undefeated (2011) ArcEnt $116,381 14 $65,132 10 7/15/11
63 In the Face of Evil: Reagan's War in Word and Deed NFF $110,577 15 $46,975 6 10/1/04
64 Al Franken: God Spoke Bal. $102,990 10 $10,533 2 9/13/06
65 Celsius 41.11: The Truth Behind the Lies of Fahrenheit 9/11 CitU $93,000 116 $93,000 116 10/22/04
66 The Unforeseen CGld $90,287 3 $2,496 1 2/29/08
67 America: Freedom to Fascism Libre $87,400 10 $61,200 10 7/28/06
68 Hating Breitbart RM $81,432 8 $40,673 4 10/19/12
69 Shoot Down Magic $74,421 21 $49,182 21 1/25/08
70 Body of War FSC $71,716 5 $3,321 1 3/7/08
71 Shake Hands with the Devil: The Journey of Romeo Dallaire CalN $68,249 4 $1,848 1 5/13/05
72 Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story IPos. $60,332 10 $10,939 2 9/26/08
73 Voices of Iraq Magn. $57,999 12 $30,634 12 10/29/04
74 Ballot Measure 9 Zeit. $53,819 1 $8,143 1 3/31/95
75 Occupy Unmasked Magn. $52,768 4 $40,952 4 9/21/12
76 The Yes Men Are Revolting Orch. $50,190 20 $12,462 10 6/12/15
77 Feed OrC $45,488 1 $11,448 1 10/7/92
78 There's No Place Like Utopia RM $45,254 5 $30,710 1 7/18/14
79 Granito: How to Nail a Dictator ICir $43,942 5 $4,330 1 9/14/11
80 Tying the Knot IDP $40,576 8 $24,517 8 10/1/04
81 Can Mr. Smith Get to Washington Anymore? AtRsk $35,397 1 $6,742 1 7/27/06
82 Your Mommy Kills Animals Halo8 $34,000 1 $34,000 1 7/20/07
83 My Country, My Country Zeit. $33,620 4 $3,546 1 8/4/06
84 Weapons of Mass Deception Libre $30,210 4 $4,216 3 12/3/04
85 Earth Days Zeit. $26,748 5 $2,408 1 8/14/09
86 Lake of Fire Think $25,317 9 $2,559 1 10/3/07
87 Giuliani Time Libre $21,967 2 $8,661 1 5/12/06
88 Voices in Wartime Libre $20,702 5 $1,966 2 4/8/05
89 Meeting Resistance ICir $20,616 2 $7,712 2 10/19/07
90 Our Nixon Cdgm. $20,584 5 $6,090 3 8/30/13
91 Orwell Rolls in His Grave SHB $20,389 3 $6,059 1 7/23/04
92 The Ground Truth Focus $20,013 8 $12,207 8 9/15/06
93 Suicide Killers CityL $18,239 1 $10,601 1 8/25/06
94 Ever Again RM $17,304 12 $10,802 12 12/8/06
95 Wall Life $14,541 2 $4,015 1 8/26/05
96 Up for Grabs L/Z $13,931 4 $1,881 2 5/6/05
97 The Great Invisible RTWC $11,428 5 $2,348 3 10/29/14
98 The Last Party Trit $11,156 1 $4,088 1 8/27/93
99 Pay 2 Play: Democracy's High Stakes SFI $11,021 2 $2,233 1 9/5/14
100 Sarah Palin - You Betcha! Free $10,935 6 $6,911 6 9/30/11
TOTAL (All Movies):$304,066,834----
AVERAGE (All Movies):$2,432,535101$246,49328-
TOTAL
(Wide Releases Only):		$213,712,322----
AVERAGE
(Wide Releases Only):		$35,618,7201,383$13,445,743960-
Rows: #1-100, #101-127


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