Box Office Performance for Documentary Movies in 1999

Rank	Movie	Release Date	Theatrical Distributor	MPAA Rating	1999 Gross	Tickets Sold
1	Everest	3/6/1998	MacGillivray Freeman Films	PG-13	$18,064,450	3,555,994
2	Africa's Elephant Kingdom	5/8/1998	Discovery/IMAX	Not Rated	$7,049,211	1,387,640
3	Buena Vista Social Club	6/4/1999	Artisan	G	$6,918,494	1,361,908
4	Extreme	3/23/1999	IMAX Films	Not Rated	$6,892,475	1,356,786
5	Island of the Sharks	4/30/1999	IMAX Films	Not Rated	$5,206,926	1,024,985
6	Thrill Ride: The Science of Fun	7/11/1997	Sony Pictures Classics	G	$3,441,911	677,542
7	Fifty	10/29/1999	Warren Miller Entertainment	Not Rated	$3,328,240	655,165
8	Wolves	2/26/1999	Primesco	Not Rated	$2,852,213	561,459
9	Siegfried & Roy: Masters of the Impossible	10/1/1999	IMAX Films	PG	$2,162,167	425,623
10	Wildfire: Feel The Heat	3/12/1999	Primesco	Not Rated	$1,512,930	297,821
11	Galapagos	10/29/1999	IMAX Films	Not Rated	$806,245	158,710
12	Mark Twain's America 3D	7/3/1998	Sony Pictures Classics	G	$671,617	132,208
13	Trekkies	5/21/1999	Paramount Pictures	PG	$617,172	121,491
14	American Movie: The Making of Northwestern	11/5/1999	Sony Pictures Classics	R	$459,537	90,460
15	Get Bruce	9/17/1999	Miramax	R	$43,155	8,495
16	Genghis Blues	7/9/1999	Roxie Releasing	Not Rated	$32,606	6,419
17	Mein Liebster Feind	11/5/1999	New Yorker	PG-13	$31,298	6,161
18	42: Forty Two Up	11/17/1999	First Run Features	Not Rated	$14,576	2,869
19	Beyond the Mat	10/22/1999	Universal	R	$9,532	1,876
20	Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life	2/13/1998	Strand	Not Rated	$4,737	932
Total Gross of All Movies					$60,119,492
Total Tickets Sold						11,834,544

Note: This chart ranks movies by the amount they earned during 1999. It includes movies released in previous years that earned money during 1999. For example, a movie released over Thanksgiving in 2010 will most likely earn money in 2010 and 2011. 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.