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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, #1001-1048
RowRankTitle (click to view)StudioLifetime Gross / TheatersOpening / TheatersDate
1 221 The Hunting of the President Regent Releasing $376,612 20 $23,298 2 6/18/04
2 367 Show Business Regent Releasing $151,792 9 $8,829 1 5/11/07
3 676 Naked Fame Regent Releasing $29,220 2 $2,837 1 2/18/05
4 763 Saving Marriage Regent Releasing $18,720 2 $8,044 2 10/17/08
5 827 Sex Positive Regent Releasing $12,069 1 $3,408 1 6/12/09
6 889 Eleven Minutes Regent Releasing $7,986 4 $3,670 4 2/20/09
7 - Mr. Leather Regent Releasing n/a - n/a - 12/8/06
8 756 Trying to Get Good: The Jazz Odyssey of Jack Sheldon Reel Source $19,712 1 $4,792 1 5/30/08
9 563 Transformation: The Life and Legacy of Werner Erhard Reel Diva Consultants $49,919 1 $25,460 1 7/27/07
10 437 8: The Mormon Proposition Red Flag Releasing $100,280 16 $42,566 16 6/18/10
11 - We Were Here Red Flag Releasing n/a 1 n/a 1 9/9/11
12 - High Ground Red Flag Releasing n/a - n/a - 11/2/12
13 - The Green Wave Red Flag Releasing n/a - n/a - 8/10/12
14 973 The Prisoner or: How I Planned to Kill Tony Blair Red Envelope Entertainment $3,103 2 $2,194 2 3/23/07
15 - The Art of Flight 3D Red Bull n/a - n/a - 12/7/12
16 856 Let's Get Frank Random Productions $10,440 1 $3,465 1 7/14/04
17 709 Islam: What the West Needs to Know Quixotic Media $22,938 3 $12,184 3 7/7/06
18 183 Hands on a Hard Body Providence $563,482 6 $7,607 1 7/10/98
19 49 Exit Through the Gift Shop Producers Distribution Agency $3,291,250 46 $170,756 8 4/16/10
20 85 Senna Producers Distribution Agency $1,612,430 47 $73,497 2 8/12/11
21 311 Brooklyn Castle Producers Distribution Agency $219,407 13 $18,761 2 10/19/12
22 900 Bel Borba Aqui Producers Distribution Agency $7,426 2 $1,869 1 10/3/12
23 821 America the Beautiful 2: The Thin Commandments PMK*BNC $12,366 3 $5,599 3 10/14/11
24 962 Moog Plexifilm $3,604 1 $2,227 1 9/24/04
25 165 The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters Picturehouse $677,914 58 $51,493 5 8/17/07
26 175 Vince Vaughn's Wild West Comedy Show: 30 Days & 30 Nights - From Hollywood to the Heartland Picturehouse $603,894 962 $464,170 962 2/8/08
27 512 Rock School Picturehouse $64,310 32 $28,136 32 6/3/05
28 810 Who the #$&% Is Jackson Pollock Picturehouse $13,710 2 $5,526 2 11/15/06
29 156 Forks Over Knives Pascack Media $739,561 39 $17,645 1 1/7/11
30 - State 194 Participant Media n/a - n/a - 5/17/13
31 24 Waiting for "Superman" Paramount Vantage $6,417,135 330 $139,033 4 9/24/10
32 27 Shine a Light Paramount Vantage $5,505,267 277 $1,488,081 276 4/4/08
33 128 American Teen Paramount Vantage $942,441 109 $45,589 5 7/25/08
34 140 Arctic Tale Paramount Vantage $833,532 227 $22,607 4 7/25/07
35 9 An Inconvenient Truth Paramount Classics $24,146,161 587 $281,330 4 5/24/06
36 18 Mad Hot Ballroom Paramount Classics $8,117,961 202 $45,348 2 5/13/05
37 236 Trekkies Paramount Classics $318,246 339 $125,636 339 5/21/99
38 3 Justin Bieber: Never Say Never Paramount $73,013,910 3,118 $29,514,054 3,105 2/11/11
39 7 Katy Perry: Part of Me Paramount $25,326,071 2,732 $7,138,266 2,730 7/5/12
40 21 Tupac: Resurrection Paramount $7,718,961 804 $4,632,847 801 11/14/03
41 469 16 Days of Glory Paramount $83,857 - n/a - 3/7/86
42 790 7th Street Paradise Acres $15,629 1 $6,354 1 1/17/03
43 788 People Say I'm Crazy Palo Alto Pictures $15,679 1 $4,820 1 4/30/04
44 174 Gunner Palace Palm $607,844 56 $63,520 8 3/4/05
45 253 Scratch Palm $289,885 7 $29,677 5 2/15/02
46 371 Stoked: The Rise and Fall of Gator Palm $150,268 13 $10,998 1 8/22/03
47 391 Be Here to Love Me: A Film About Townes Van Zandt Palm $129,988 5 $9,098 1 12/2/05
48 394 DIG! Palm $127,067 10 $20,437 2 10/1/04
49 485 The Nomi Song Palm $74,631 3 $14,510 2 2/4/05
50 585 William Eggleston in the Real World Palm $44,435 2 $6,820 1 8/31/05
51 592 Mandela Palm $42,056 8 $8,413 8 3/21/97
52 599 Tom Dowd and the Language of Music Palm $40,919 10 $16,522 10 8/13/04
53 659 Patti Smith: Dream of Life Palm $30,918 1 $9,993 1 8/6/08
54 671 Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Impassioned Eye Palm $29,710 2 $7,235 2 1/13/06
55 683 Who Gets to Call It Art? Palm $27,344 1 $7,520 1 2/1/06
56 819 Freestyle: The Art of Rhyme Palm $12,600 1 $4,842 1 7/16/04
57 894 Kill Your Idols Palm $7,753 2 $3,274 1 7/7/06
58 942 How to Draw a Bunny Palm $4,658 1 $2,706 1 3/12/04
59 988 You're Gonna Miss Me Palm $2,324 1 $1,340 1 6/8/07
60 482 This is Not a Film Palisades Tartan $77,016 5 $12,608 5 2/29/12
61 88 I Am Paladin $1,591,034 74 $10,092 1 2/18/11
62 472 The Whale Paladin $81,881 5 $4,835 2 9/9/11
63 573 Connected Paladin $46,782 7 $13,301 3 9/16/11
64 588 Love Etc. Paladin $43,593 2 $8,781 2 7/1/11
65 628 Mansome Paladin $36,280 20 $18,395 20 5/18/12
66 701 Otter 501 Paladin $24,449 4 $5,444 3 5/11/12
67 772 Great Directors Paladin $17,921 4 $5,440 3 7/2/10
68 147 Bill W. Page 124 Productions $784,333 31 n/a - 5/18/12
69 14 Capitalism: A Love Story Overture Films $14,363,397 995 $231,964 4 9/23/09
70 189 Sex Is... Outsider Films $530,833 6 n/a - 5/7/93
71 1005 'Tis Autumn: The Search for Jackie Paris Outsider Films $1,476 1 $1,476 1 12/7/07
72 63 Samsara Oscilloscope Pictures $2,672,413 70 $76,222 2 8/24/12
73 194 Shut Up and Play the Hits Oscilloscope Pictures $510,334 161 n/a - 7/18/12
74 233 A Film Unfinished Oscilloscope Pictures $320,486 16 $34,060 4 8/18/10
75 246 Unmistaken Child Oscilloscope Pictures $306,140 6 $6,293 1 6/3/09
76 377 FLOW: For Love of Water Oscilloscope Pictures $142,569 11 $3,644 1 3/21/08
77 440 No Impact Man Oscilloscope Pictures $100,028 8 $15,215 2 9/11/09
78 518 If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front Oscilloscope Pictures $61,794 5 $5,634 2 6/22/11
79 545 The Other F Word Oscilloscope Pictures $53,714 6 $15,792 2 11/4/11
80 557 Burma VJ Oscilloscope Pictures $51,672 3 $5,554 1 5/20/09
81 559 Gunnin' for That #1 Spot Oscilloscope Pictures $50,804 14 $20,355 14 6/27/08
82 577 William S. Burroughs: A Man Within Oscilloscope Pictures $46,380 4 $6,510 1 11/17/10
83 687 The Garden Oscilloscope Pictures $26,931 4 $4,114 1 4/24/09
84 757 Tchoupitoulas Oscilloscope Pictures $19,375 6 $2,379 1 12/7/12
85 766 Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father Oscilloscope Pictures $18,334 3 $2,886 1 10/31/08
86 795 Only the Young Oscilloscope Pictures $15,312 2 $1,446 1 12/7/12
87 822 Rebirth Oscilloscope Pictures $12,358 4 $2,740 1 8/31/11
88 281 Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey Orion Classics $253,311 11 $8,335 1 8/25/95
89 700 Eat This New York Organic Pictures $24,640 2 $5,847 2 1/30/04
90 981 Risk/Reward Organic Pictures $2,517 1 $2,517 1 2/27/04
91 839 Crop Circles: Quest for Truth Open Edge $11,562 1 $5,763 1 8/23/02
92 477 Harvest of Empire Onyx Films $79,627 2 n/a - 9/28/12
93 132 The War Room October $901,668 21 $15,264 1 11/3/93
94 208 The Last Days October $421,432 32 $20,492 3 2/5/99
95 584 Moving the Mountain October $44,536 3 $3,199 1 4/26/95
96 516 Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision Ocean Releasing $62,186 6 $2,273 1 10/20/95
97 418 In the Face of Evil: Reagan's War in Word and Deed Non-Fiction Films $110,577 15 $46,975 6 10/1/04
98 248 God Grew Tired of Us Newmarket $301,447 10 $21,858 2 1/12/07
99 61 My Architect New Yorker $2,750,707 39 $37,929 2 11/12/03
100 146 Trembling Before G-d New Yorker $788,896 8 $21,410 1 10/24/01
TOTAL (All Movies):$977,104,901----
AVERAGE (All Movies):$955,13747$132,41225-
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, #1001-1048


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UPCOMING RELEASES
Title (click to view)StudioRelease Date
On the Rumba River FRun 6/6/08
Muscle Shoals Magn. Summer 2013
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