Adjuster:

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
1 498 An Inconsistent Truth RM $69,394 3 $20,733 1 1/27/12
2 285 Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten IFC $248,362 17 $20,880 2 11/2/07
3 190 A Great Day in Harlem Castle $527,034 8 $21,078 1 2/17/95
4 273 Steep SPC $260,586 23 $21,189 17 12/21/07
5 678 Southpaw: The Francis Barrett Story Shoot. $28,365 19 $21,381 19 4/7/00
6 146 Trembling Before G-d NYer $788,896 8 $21,410 1 10/24/01
7 327 South of the Border Libre $198,600 12 $21,545 1 6/25/10
8 237 Grass Una. $313,039 10 $21,578 2 5/31/00
9 82 Life & Times of Hank Greenberg Cow. $1,712,385 31 $21,675 1 1/12/00
10 275 Mayor of the Sunset Strip First $257,315 18 $21,722 7 3/26/04
11 341 Protocols of Zion Think $178,875 10 $21,733 4 10/21/05
12 79 Valentino: The Last Emperor Truly $1,755,134 38 $21,762 1 3/18/09
13 78 The Story of the Weeping Camel Think $1,763,052 55 $21,767 2 6/4/04
14 248 God Grew Tired of Us NM $301,447 10 $21,858 2 1/12/07
15 649 Living in Emergency Truly $32,208 7 $21,905 7 6/4/10
16 162 56 Up FRun $694,896 33 $22,088 1 1/4/13
17 133 The Imposter IM $898,317 31 $22,379 1 7/13/12
18 430 Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst Magn. $105,054 9 $22,444 4 11/26/04
19 140 Arctic Tale ParV $833,532 227 $22,607 4 7/25/07
20 247 Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey SD $304,052 15 $22,963 1 10/21/11
21 230 The Devil and Daniel Johnston SPC $334,450 17 $23,192 5 3/31/06
22 422 Darfur Now WIP $109,107 24 $23,217 3 11/2/07
23 221 The Hunting of the President Reg. $376,612 20 $23,298 2 6/18/04
24 555 Screamers (2006) Maya $52,034 4 $23,609 4 12/8/06
25 136 Fast, Cheap and Out of Control SPC $878,960 40 $23,665 2 10/3/97
26 207 Porn Star: The Legend of Ron Jeremy Mael. $421,516 7 $23,865 2 11/30/01
27 320 Soul Power SPC $207,121 23 $23,893 6 7/10/09
28 325 Imelda Unco $200,992 6 $24,077 6 6/9/04
29 195 Mr. Death Lions $507,941 28 $24,125 3 12/29/99
30 278 The Yes Men UA $255,364 32 $24,373 3 9/24/04
31 323 Iraq in Fragments Arab $204,462 12 $24,435 7 11/8/06
32 602 Tying the Knot IDP $40,576 8 $24,517 8 10/1/04
33 395 Unknown White Male Wells $126,836 11 $24,591 4 2/24/06
34 471 Better Living Through Circuitry 7Art $82,378 8 $24,970 4 5/26/00
35 445 Paragraph 175 NYer $96,630 2 $25,007 2 9/13/00
36 651 District of Corruption RM $31,954 3 $25,086 3 10/26/12
37 563 Transformation: The Life and Legacy of Werner Erhard ReelD $49,919 1 $25,460 1 7/27/07
38 118 Paper Clips Slow $1,121,744 43 $25,535 5 11/24/04
39 520 Don't Stop Believin': Everyman's Journey Cdgm. $61,018 23 $25,573 23 3/8/13
40 152 The Girl Next Door (2000) Indic. $771,712 5 $25,807 5 4/14/00
41 211 Project Nim RAtt. $411,184 22 $25,820 4 7/8/11
42 321 Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life Strand $205,246 - $26,101 2 2/13/98
43 299 My Kid Could Paint That SPC $231,574 20 $26,290 8 10/5/07
44 103 Anne Frank Remembered SPC $1,310,200 31 $26,697 4 2/23/96
45 99 Baraka Gold. $1,332,110 15 $26,812 2 9/24/93
46 513 Cool It RAtt. $62,713 43 $26,847 41 11/12/10
47 337 Stories We Tell (U.S. only) RAtt. $180,000 23 $27,053 2 5/10/13
48 234 Bukowski: Born Into This Magn. $318,816 8 $27,095 5 5/28/04
49 503 Happy Valley Ston5 $67,665 7 $27,122 7 3/28/08
50 64 Control Room Magn. $2,589,616 74 $27,125 1 5/21/04
51 43 Searching for Sugar Man SPC $3,663,669 157 $27,459 3 7/27/12
52 144 Visions of Light Kino $799,856 13 $27,761 2 2/24/93
53 262 Planet B-Boy Elep. $273,870 14 $27,777 2 3/21/08
54 629 The Year of the Yao FL $35,591 12 $27,823 12 4/15/05
55 178 Powaqqatsi Can. $589,244 22 $27,899 1 4/29/88
56 423 Trumbo Gold. $109,057 6 $28,125 3 6/27/08
57 512 Rock School PicH $64,310 32 $28,136 32 6/3/05
58 388 How to Survive a Plague IFC $132,055 15 $28,250 4 9/21/12
59 342 Monumental: In Search of America's National Treasure AAE $177,729 27 $28,340 6 3/30/12
60 191 Trouble the Water Zeit. $520,151 15 $28,606 3 8/22/08
61 47 The Corporation Zeit. $3,493,516 28 $28,671 2 6/4/04
62 256 American Pimp 7Art $287,724 9 $28,699 5 6/9/00
63 121 Page One: A Year Inside the New York Times Magn. $1,067,028 65 $28,911 2 6/17/11
64 253 Scratch Palm $289,885 7 $29,677 5 2/15/02
65 271 Room 237 IFC $263,411 28 $29,693 2 3/29/13
66 355 Girls Rock! Shad. $159,294 14 $29,917 7 3/7/08
67 231 The Central Park Five IFC $325,653 22 $30,570 3 11/23/12
68 533 Voices of Iraq Magn. $57,999 12 $30,634 12 10/29/04
69 244 This Film Is Not Yet Rated IFC $306,845 18 $30,664 2 9/1/06
70 303 The Agronomist Think $226,189 21 $30,855 7 4/23/04
71 442 Escape Fire RAtt. $99,028 12 $30,953 12 10/5/12
72 266 This Old Cub Emr. $270,014 6 $31,252 6 3/26/04
73 295 Uncovered: The War on Iraq Libre $238,924 22 $31,481 7 8/20/04
74 94 No End in Sight Magn. $1,433,319 117 $31,533 2 7/27/07
75 243 Bigger, Stronger, Faster* Magn. $308,575 26 $31,576 6 5/30/08
76 4 2016 Obama's America RM $33,449,086 2,017 $31,610 1 7/13/12
77 192 Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser WB $518,918 11 $31,842 2 10/1/89
78 436 Freakonomics Magn. $101,270 20 $31,893 20 10/1/10
79 218 Into the Arms of Strangers WB $382,807 18 $32,037 5 9/15/00
80 578 The Hip Hop Project Think $46,208 42 $32,520 42 5/11/07
81 257 Outrage Magn. $287,198 18 $32,589 5 5/8/09
82 347 Youssou N'Dour: I Bring What I Love Shad. $172,225 7 $32,598 3 6/12/09
83 52 Wordplay IFC $3,121,270 154 $32,847 2 6/16/06
84 475 Waking Sleeping Beauty BV $80,741 5 $33,115 5 3/26/10
85 16 Winged Migration SPC $11,689,053 202 $33,128 1 4/18/03
86 365 Brothers at War Gold. $153,148 18 $33,142 7 3/13/09
87 184 Undefeated (2012) Wein. $562,218 21 $33,165 5 2/17/12
88 91 Bill Cunningham New York Zeit. $1,510,026 34 $33,677 1 3/16/11
89 153 For All Mankind Apol. $770,132 9 $33,777 6 11/1/89
90 97 Looking for Richard FoxS $1,408,575 81 $33,843 2 10/11/96
91 639 Your Mommy Kills Animals Halo8 $34,000 1 $34,000 1 7/20/07
92 233 A Film Unfinished Osci. $320,486 16 $34,060 4 8/18/10
93 167 Anvil! The Story of Anvil Abr. $667,911 27 $34,651 3 4/10/09
94 95 Microcosmos Mira. $1,433,210 43 $35,189 2 10/9/96
95 227 Koch Zeit. $340,961 16 $35,196 2 2/1/13
96 462 Exporting Raymond Gold. $87,727 13 $35,292 13 4/29/11
97 164 Wigstock: The Movie Gold. $686,152 30 $35,563 3 6/9/95
98 100 Restrepo NGE $1,330,894 52 $35,581 2 6/25/10
99 372 Cocaine Cowboys Magn. $150,056 14 $36,295 12 10/27/06
100 505 Beyond the Gates (2004) ETr. $67,433 5 $36,412 5 11/5/04
TOTAL (All Movies):$976,846,546----
AVERAGE (All Movies):$955,81947$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