Top Grossing Documentary Films

1 Fahrenheit 9/11 $119,194,771
2 March of the Penguins $77,437,223
3 Sicko $24,540,079
4 An Inconvenient Truth $24,146,161
5 Bowling for Columbine $21,576,018
6 Madonna: Truth or Dare $15,012,935
7 Winged Migration $11,689,053
8 Super Size Me $11,536,423
9 Mad Hot Ballroom $8,117,961
10 Hoop Dreams $7,830,611
11 Tupac: Resurrection $7,718,961
12 Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed $7,499,617
13 Roger and Me $6,706,368
14 The Aristocrats $6,377,461
15 Spellbound (2003) $5,728,581
16 Shine a Light $5,129,873
17 Touching the Void $4,593,598
18 The Fog of War $4,198,566
19 Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
20 Paris is Burning $3,779,620
21 Imagine: John Lennon $3,753,977
22 Step Into Liquid $3,681,803
23 Born Into Brothels $3,515,061
24 The Corporation $3,493,516
25 Rize $3,336,391
26 Grizzly Man $3,178,403
27 Wordplay $3,121,270
28 Capturing the Friedmans $3,119,113
29 The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill $3,058,527
30 Crumb $3,041,083
31 Unzipped $2,875,086
32 When We Were Kings $2,789,985
33 Comedian $2,751,988
34 My Architect $2,750,707
35 Freeriders $2,750,064
36 Control Room $2,589,616
37 The Endurance: Shackleton's Antarctic Adventure $2,453,083
38 Snowriders 2 $2,287,639
39 A Brief History of Time $2,279,692
40 Riding Giants $2,276,368
41 Rivers and Tides $2,200,276
42 The Endless Summer II $2,155,385
43 Snowriders $2,068,490
44 Beyond the Mat $2,053,648
45 Young@Heart $2,005,718
46 Endless Winter $1,966,454
47 Vertical Reality $1,951,429
48 The Story of the Weeping Camel $1,763,052
49 Koyaanisqatsi $1,723,872
50 Life & Times of Hank Greenberg $1,712,385
51 Who Killed the Electric Car? $1,678,874
52 Black Diamond Rush $1,634,386
53 Rhyme & Reason $1,608,277
54 Vincent: The Life and Death of Vincent Van Gogh $1,577,480
55 Murderball $1,531,154
56 Why We Fight $1,439,972
57 The Kid Stays in the Picture $1,439,232
58 No End in Sight $1,433,319
59 Microcosmos $1,433,210
60 Looking for Richard $1,408,575
61 The Celluloid Closet $1,400,591
62 Hearts of Darkness $1,318,449
63 Anne Frank Remembered $1,310,200
64 Brother's Keeper $1,305,915
65 Dogtown and Z-Boys $1,300,682
66 Startup.com $1,283,356
67 Metallica: Some Kind of Monster $1,222,708
68 Shut Up and Sing $1,215,045
69 The Thin Blue Line $1,209,846
70 Festival Express $1,174,079
71 American Movie $1,165,795
72 In the Shadow of the Moon $1,134,358
73 Paper Clips $1,121,744
74 The U.S. Vs. John Lennon $1,109,146
75 Leonard Cohen I'm Your Man $1,044,254
76 The Eyes of Tammy Faye $1,029,591
77 35 Up $922,872
78 Jesus Camp $902,544
79 The War Room $901,668
80 Fast, Cheap and Out of Control $878,960
81 Marlene $852,676
82 Sharkwater $850,920
83 Arctic Tale $833,532
84 Ballets Russes $815,848
85 Visions of Light $799,856
86 Into Great Silence $790,452
87 Trembling Before G-d $788,896
88 To Be and to Have $777,129
89 Listen Up: The Lives of Quincy Jones $776,699
90 The Girl Next Door (2000) $771,712
91 For All Mankind $770,132
92 First Descent $750,805
93 Lost in La Mancha $732,393
94 The Big One $720,074
95 The 11th Hour $707,343
96 Inside Deep Throat $691,880
97 Wigstock: The Movie $686,152
98 The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters $677,914
99 Kurt and Courtney $668,228
100 Dust to Glory $640,013