Box Office Performance for Documentary Movies in 2006

Rank	Movie	Genre	MPAA	2006 Gross	Tickets Sold	Inflation- Adjusted Gross
1	An Inconvenient Truth	Documentary	PG	$24,146,161	3,686,437	$25,362,687
2	Deep Sea 3-D	Documentary	G	$21,973,886	3,354,792	$23,080,969
3	Dave Chappelle's Block Party	Documentary	R	$11,718,595	1,789,098	$12,308,994
4	Magnificent Desolation	Documentary	Not Rated	$10,633,999	1,623,511	$11,169,756
5	Roving Mars	Documentary	G	$5,482,822	837,072	$5,759,055
6	Wild Safari 3D	Documentary	Not Rated	$4,974,943	759,533	$5,225,587
7	Wordplay	Documentary	PG	$3,121,270	476,530	$3,278,526
8	Why We Fight	Documentary	PG-13	$1,880,863	287,155	$1,975,626
9	Who Killed the Electric Car?	Documentary	PG	$1,678,874	256,317	$1,763,461
10	Bugs!	Documentary	Not Rated	$1,619,294	247,220	$1,700,874
11	Aliens of the Deep	Documentary	G	$1,206,247	184,160	$1,267,021
12	Galapagos	Documentary	Not Rated	$1,132,540	172,907	$1,189,600
13	Shut Up and Sing	Documentary	R	$1,120,005	170,993	$1,176,432
14	The U.S. vs John Lennon	Documentary	PG-13	$1,109,146	169,335	$1,165,025
15	Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man	Documentary	PG-13	$1,044,254	159,428	$1,096,865
16	Space Station	Documentary	Not Rated	$1,031,820	157,530	$1,083,806
17	Jesus Camp	Documentary	PG-13	$872,124	133,149	$916,065
18	The Heart of the Game	Documentary	PG-13	$444,687	67,891	$467,090
19	Sketches of Frank Gehry	Documentary		$439,309	67,070	$461,442
20	Ballets Russes	Documentary	Not Rated	$364,725	55,683	$383,099
21	The Devil and Daniel Johnston	Documentary	PG-13	$334,450	51,061	$351,300
22	This Film is Not Yet Rated	Documentary	Not Rated	$306,845	46,847	$322,307
23	The Boys of Baraka	Documentary	R	$276,318	42,186	$290,240
24	American Hardcore	Documentary	R	$265,992	40,609	$279,390
25	The War Tapes	Documentary	Not Rated	$254,190	38,808	$266,999
26	49 Up	Documentary		$238,073	36,347	$250,067
27	Pulse: A Stomp Odyssey	Documentary	Not Rated	$226,500	34,580	$237,910
28	The Beauty Academy of Kabul	Documentary		$225,448	34,420	$236,810
29	Deliver Us From Evil	Documentary		$201,275	30,729	$211,416
30	Our Brand is Crisis	Documentary		$166,750	25,458	$175,151
31	Gay Sex in the 70's	Documentary	Not Rated	$163,940	25,029	$172,200
32	Cocaine Cowboys	Documentary		$163,000	24,885	$171,209
33	Once in a Lifetime: the Extraordinary Story of the New York Cosmos	Documentary	PG-13	$144,601	22,076	$151,883
34	What the Bleep?: Down the Rabbit Hole	Documentary		$135,706	20,718	$142,540
35	Stolen	Documentary		$132,596	20,244	$139,279
36	Unknown White Male	Documentary	PG-13	$126,836	19,364	$133,224
37	Sir! No Sir!	Documentary		$116,944	17,854	$122,836
38	Darwin's Nightmare	Documentary	Not Rated	$106,132	16,203	$111,477
39	Al Franken: God Spoke	Documentary		$102,990	15,724	$108,181
40	America: Freedom to Fascism	Documentary		$87,400	13,344	$91,807
41	After Innocence	Documentary	Not Rated	$78,260	11,948	$82,202
42	Crossing the Bridge: The Sound of Istanbul	Documentary		$70,685	10,792	$74,249
43	Be Here to Love Me: A Film About Townes van Zandt	Documentary		$67,315	10,277	$70,706
44	Iraq in Fragments	Documentary		$64,116	9,789	$67,348
45	Absolute Wilson	Documentary		$53,170	8,118	$55,852
46	Screamers	Documentary		$52,034	7,944	$54,655
47	Shakespeare Behind Bars	Documentary		$48,594	7,419	$51,043
48	Tibet: A Buddhist Trilogy	Documentary		$47,243	7,213	$49,625
49	New York Doll	Documentary	PG-13	$43,616	6,659	$45,814
50	Touch the Sound	Documentary	Not Rated	$40,004	6,107	$42,016
51	Rape of the Soul	Documentary		$39,975	6,103	$41,989
52	Been Rich All My Life	Documentary		$36,406	5,558	$38,239
53	Paper Dolls	Documentary		$36,089	5,510	$37,909
54	My Country My Country	Documentary		$33,620	5,133	$35,315
55	Sisters in Law	Documentary		$33,312	5,086	$34,992
56	The Untold story of Emmett Till	Documentary	Not Rated	$33,040	5,044	$34,703
57	Excellent Cadavers	Documentary		$30,296	4,625	$31,820
58	Who Gets to Call It Art?	Documentary		$27,344	4,175	$28,724
59	Trudell	Documentary		$26,756	4,085	$28,105
60	Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Impassioned Eye	Documentary		$25,347	3,870	$26,626
61	Wrestling with Angels	Documentary		$24,729	3,775	$25,972
62	Islam: What the West Needs to Know	Documentary	Not Rated	$22,938	3,502	$24,094
63	*Fck**	Documentary	Not Rated	$22,359	3,414	$23,488
64	Giuliani Time	Documentary		$21,967	3,354	$23,076
65	The Last Dispatch	Documentary		$20,684	3,158	$21,727
66	The Ground Truth: After the Killing Ends	Documentary	R	$20,013	3,055	$21,018
67	Suicide Killers	Documentary		$18,239	2,785	$19,161
68	Protocols of Zion	Documentary	Not Rated	$17,558	2,681	$18,445
69	The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill	Documentary	G	$16,936	2,586	$17,792
70	So Much So Fast	Documentary		$16,411	2,505	$17,234
71	Through the Fire	Documentary		$14,769	2,255	$15,514
72	Devil's Miner	Documentary		$14,289	2,182	$15,012
73	Who the #$^% is Jackson Pollock?	Documentary		$13,710	2,093	$14,400
74	I Trust You To Kill Me	Documentary		$12,854	1,962	$13,499
75	Words of My Perfect Teacher	Documentary		$12,653	1,932	$13,292
76	Music from the Inside Out	Documentary	Not Rated	$11,901	1,817	$12,501
77	Abduction: The Megumi Yokota Story	Documentary		$11,509	1,757	$12,088
78	Favela Rising	Documentary		$10,565	1,613	$11,097
79	So Goes the Nation	Documentary		$10,337	1,578	$10,857
80	Searching for Wrong-Eyed Jesus	Documentary	Not Rated	$9,608	1,467	$10,093
81	Adrenaline Rush: The Science of Risk	Documentary	Not Rated	$8,750	1,336	$9,192
82	Kill Your Idols	Documentary		$7,753	1,184	$8,146
83	The Cult of the Suicide Bomber	Documentary		$7,451	1,138	$7,829
84	Saint of 9/11	Documentary		$7,137	1,090	$7,499
85	The Case of the Grinning Cat	Documentary		$7,033	1,074	$7,389
86	Romántico	Documentary		$6,635	1,013	$6,969
87	The Goebbels Experiment	Documentary	Not Rated	$6,400	977	$6,722
88	Bullrider	Documentary		$5,800	885	$6,089
89	King Leopold's Ghost	Documentary		$5,194	793	$5,456
90	Street Fight	Documentary		$4,779	730	$5,022
91	The Fall of Fujimori	Documentary		$4,630	707	$4,864
92	Cowboy Del Amor	Documentary		$4,438	678	$4,665
93	Out of Place: Memories of Edward Said	Documentary		$3,897	595	$4,094
94	Commune	Documentary	Not Rated	$3,458	528	$3,633
95	95 Miles to Go	Documentary		$3,195	488	$3,357
96	39 Pounds of Love	Documentary	Not Rated	$2,658	406	$2,793
97	Mardi Gras: Made in China	Documentary		$2,500	382	$2,628
98	Herbie Hancock: Possibilities	Documentary		$2,493	381	$2,621
99	Rank	Documentary		$2,485	379	$2,608
100	Blossoms of Fire	Documentary		$2,390	365	$2,511
101	The Big Question	Documentary	PG-13	$2,248	343	$2,360
102	Workingman's Death	Documentary		$2,214	338	$2,325
103	Reel Paradise	Documentary	R	$1,515	231	$1,589
104	The Ister	Documentary		$1,124	172	$1,183
105	The Empire in Africa	Documentary		$1,088	166	$1,142
106	Aristide and the Endless Revolution	Documentary	Not Rated	$772	118	$812
Total Gross of All Movies				$101,090,838
Total Tickets Sold					15,433,720
Total Gross of All Movies at 2008 ticket prices						$106,183,994

Note: This chart ranks movies by the amount they earned during 2006. It includes movies released in previous years that earned money during 2006. For example, a movie released over Thanksgiving in 2005 will most likely earn money in 2005 and 2006. Click on the individual movie to see its total gross over all the years in which it played.

Each box office year ends on the first Sunday of the following year. The next year starts the following day (Monday). For example, the "2004 box office year" ended on Sunday, January 2, 2005.

Inflation-adjusted figures are based ticket sale estimates, and may not be precise due to rounding errors.