Box Office Performance for Based on Real Life Events Movies in 2006

Rank	Movie	Genre	MPAA	2006 Gross	Tickets Sold	Inflation- Adjusted Gross
1	The Pursuit of Happyness	Drama	PG-13	$98,411,670	15,024,682	$103,369,812
2	World Trade Center	Drama	PG-13	$70,278,893	10,729,602	$73,819,662
3	Invincible	Drama	PG	$57,806,952	8,825,489	$60,719,364
4	Glory Road	Drama	PG	$42,647,449	6,511,061	$44,796,100
5	Gridiron Gang	Drama	PG-13	$38,432,823	5,867,607	$40,369,136
6	The Good Shepherd	Drama	R	$35,066,495	5,353,663	$36,833,201
7	Take the Lead	Drama	PG-13	$34,742,066	5,304,132	$36,492,428
8	Munich	Drama	R	$33,108,545	5,054,740	$34,776,611
9	United 93	Drama	R	$31,567,134	4,819,410	$33,157,541
10	The Queen	Drama	PG-13	$28,196,606	4,304,825	$29,617,196
11	Walk the Line	Drama	PG-13	$27,776,963	4,240,758	$29,176,415
12	We Are... Marshall	Drama	PG	$25,128,312	3,836,384	$26,394,322
13	Jet Li's Fearless	Drama	PG-13	$24,633,730	3,760,875	$25,874,820
14	An Inconvenient Truth	Documentary	PG	$24,146,161	3,686,437	$25,362,687
15	Deep Sea 3-D	Documentary	G	$21,973,886	3,354,792	$23,080,969
16	Hollywoodland	Drama	R	$14,426,251	2,202,481	$15,153,069
17	Flyboys	Drama	PG-13	$13,090,630	1,998,569	$13,750,155
18	Dave Chappelle's Block Party	Documentary	R	$11,718,595	1,789,098	$12,308,994
19	Bobby	Drama	R	$11,034,972	1,684,729	$11,590,936
20	Magnificent Desolation	Documentary	Not Rated	$10,633,999	1,623,511	$11,169,756
21	Good Night and Good Luck	Drama	PG	$7,924,184	1,209,799	$8,323,417
22	The Night Listener	Drama	R	$7,836,393	1,196,396	$8,231,204
23	Roving Mars	Documentary	G	$5,482,822	837,072	$5,759,055
24	The World's Fastest Indian	Drama	PG-13	$5,128,124	782,920	$5,386,490
25	Wild Safari 3D	Documentary	Not Rated	$4,974,943	759,533	$5,225,587
26	Catch a Fire	Thriller/Suspense	PG-13	$4,299,773	656,454	$4,516,404
27	Wolf Creek	Horror	R	$4,029,778	615,233	$4,232,803
28	Wordplay	Documentary	PG	$3,121,270	476,530	$3,278,526
29	The Squid and the Whale	Drama	R	$2,235,957	341,367	$2,348,605
30	Why We Fight	Documentary	PG-13	$1,880,863	287,155	$1,975,626
31	Neil Young: Heart of Gold	Concert/Performance	PG	$1,828,069	279,095	$1,920,174
32	Who Killed the Electric Car?	Documentary	PG	$1,678,874	256,317	$1,763,461
33	Bugs!	Documentary	Not Rated	$1,619,294	247,220	$1,700,874
34	The Notorious Bettie Page	Drama	R	$1,415,082	216,043	$1,486,376
35	Aliens of the Deep	Documentary	G	$1,206,247	184,160	$1,267,021
36	Find Me Guilty	Drama	R	$1,173,673	179,187	$1,232,807
37	Galapagos	Documentary	Not Rated	$1,132,540	172,907	$1,189,600
38	Shut Up and Sing	Documentary	R	$1,120,005	170,993	$1,176,432
39	The U.S. vs John Lennon	Documentary	PG-13	$1,109,146	169,335	$1,165,025
40	Merry Christmas	Drama	PG-13	$1,054,361	160,971	$1,107,480
41	Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man	Documentary	PG-13	$1,044,254	159,428	$1,096,865
42	Space Station	Documentary	Not Rated	$1,031,820	157,530	$1,083,806
43	Jesus Camp	Documentary	PG-13	$872,124	133,149	$916,065
44	Sophie Scholl	Drama	Not Rated	$680,331	103,867	$714,605
45	The Heart of the Game	Documentary	PG-13	$444,687	67,891	$467,090
46	Sketches of Frank Gehry	Documentary		$439,309	67,070	$461,442
47	Ballets Russes	Documentary	Not Rated	$364,725	55,683	$383,099
48	Copying Beethoven	Drama	PG-13	$355,968	54,346	$373,900
49	The Devil and Daniel Johnston	Documentary	PG-13	$334,450	51,061	$351,300
50	The Road to Guantanamo	Drama	R	$326,876	49,905	$343,346
51	Don't Trip, He Ain't Through With Me Yet	Concert/Performance		$319,088	48,716	$335,166
52	Letters from Iwo Jima	Drama	R	$316,369	48,301	$332,311
53	This Film is Not Yet Rated	Documentary	Not Rated	$306,845	46,847	$322,307
54	The Boys of Baraka	Documentary	R	$276,318	42,186	$290,240
55	American Hardcore	Documentary	R	$265,992	40,609	$279,390
56	The War Tapes	Documentary	Not Rated	$254,190	38,808	$266,999
57	49 Up	Documentary		$238,073	36,347	$250,067
58	Pulse: A Stomp Odyssey	Documentary	Not Rated	$226,500	34,580	$237,910
59	The Beauty Academy of Kabul	Documentary		$225,448	34,420	$236,810
60	Deliver Us From Evil	Documentary		$201,275	30,729	$211,416
61	Fateless	Drama	R	$196,857	30,055	$206,778
62	Our Brand is Crisis	Documentary		$166,750	25,458	$175,151
63	Gay Sex in the 70's	Documentary	Not Rated	$163,940	25,029	$172,200
64	Cocaine Cowboys	Documentary		$163,000	24,885	$171,209
65	Awesome: I F%!#in' Shot That	Concert/Performance	R	$162,538	24,815	$170,727
66	Once in a Lifetime: the Extraordinary Story of the New York Cosmos	Documentary	PG-13	$144,601	22,076	$151,883
67	Mountain Patrol: Kekexili	Drama	PG-13	$143,383	21,891	$150,610
68	Stolen	Documentary		$132,596	20,244	$139,279
69	Unknown White Male	Documentary	PG-13	$126,836	19,364	$133,224
70	Sir! No Sir!	Documentary		$116,944	17,854	$122,836
71	Darwin's Nightmare	Documentary	Not Rated	$106,132	16,203	$111,477
72	Al Franken: God Spoke	Documentary		$102,990	15,724	$108,181
73	America: Freedom to Fascism	Documentary		$87,400	13,344	$91,807
74	After Innocence	Documentary	Not Rated	$78,260	11,948	$82,202
75	Crossing the Bridge: The Sound of Istanbul	Documentary		$70,685	10,792	$74,249
76	Be Here to Love Me: A Film About Townes van Zandt	Documentary		$67,315	10,277	$70,706
77	Iraq in Fragments	Documentary		$64,116	9,789	$67,348
78	North Country	Drama	R	$62,041	9,472	$65,167
79	10th & Wolf	Drama		$54,702	8,351	$57,455
80	Absolute Wilson	Documentary		$53,170	8,118	$55,852
81	Screamers	Documentary		$52,034	7,944	$54,655
82	Encounter in the Third Dimension	Drama	Not Rated	$48,877	7,462	$51,339
83	Tibet: A Buddhist Trilogy	Documentary		$47,243	7,213	$49,625
84	New York Doll	Documentary	PG-13	$43,616	6,659	$45,814
85	Rape of the Soul	Documentary		$39,975	6,103	$41,989
86	Been Rich All My Life	Documentary		$36,406	5,558	$38,239
87	Paper Dolls	Documentary		$36,089	5,510	$37,909
88	Loggerheads	Drama	PG-13	$34,358	5,245	$36,086
89	My Country My Country	Documentary		$33,620	5,133	$35,315
90	Sisters in Law	Documentary		$33,312	5,086	$34,992
91	Excellent Cadavers	Documentary		$30,296	4,625	$31,820
92	Trudell	Documentary		$26,756	4,085	$28,105
93	Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Impassioned Eye	Documentary		$25,347	3,870	$26,626
94	Wrestling with Angels	Documentary		$24,729	3,775	$25,972
95	Islam: What the West Needs to Know	Documentary	Not Rated	$22,938	3,502	$24,094
96	*Fck**	Documentary	Not Rated	$22,359	3,414	$23,488
97	Giuliani Time	Documentary		$21,967	3,354	$23,076
98	The Last Dispatch	Documentary		$20,684	3,158	$21,727
99	The Ground Truth: After the Killing Ends	Documentary	R	$20,013	3,055	$21,018
100	Suicide Killers	Documentary		$18,239	2,785	$19,161
101	The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill	Documentary	G	$16,936	2,586	$17,792
102	So Much So Fast	Documentary		$16,411	2,505	$17,234
103	The Aristocrats	Comedy	Not Rated	$16,091	2,457	$16,904
104	Through the Fire	Documentary		$14,769	2,255	$15,514
105	Devil's Miner	Documentary		$14,289	2,182	$15,012
106	Who the #$^% is Jackson Pollock?	Documentary		$13,710	2,093	$14,400
107	I Trust You To Kill Me	Documentary		$12,854	1,962	$13,499
108	Words of My Perfect Teacher	Documentary		$12,653	1,932	$13,292
109	Music from the Inside Out	Documentary	Not Rated	$11,901	1,817	$12,501
110	Abduction: The Megumi Yokota Story	Documentary		$11,509	1,757	$12,088
111	Favela Rising	Documentary		$10,565	1,613	$11,097
112	So Goes the Nation	Documentary		$10,337	1,578	$10,857
113	Miss Potter	Drama	PG	$9,653	1,474	$10,141
114	Adrenaline Rush: The Science of Risk	Documentary	Not Rated	$8,750	1,336	$9,192
115	Kill Your Idols	Documentary		$7,753	1,184	$8,146
116	The Cult of the Suicide Bomber	Documentary		$7,451	1,138	$7,829
117	Saint of 9/11	Documentary		$7,137	1,090	$7,499
118	The Case of the Grinning Cat	Documentary		$7,033	1,074	$7,389
119	Romántico	Documentary		$6,635	1,013	$6,969
120	Bullrider	Documentary		$5,800	885	$6,089
121	King Leopold's Ghost	Documentary		$5,194	793	$5,456
122	Street Fight	Documentary		$4,779	730	$5,022
123	The Fall of Fujimori	Documentary		$4,630	707	$4,864
124	Cowboy Del Amor	Documentary		$4,438	678	$4,665
125	Out of Place: Memories of Edward Said	Documentary		$3,897	595	$4,094
126	Commune	Documentary	Not Rated	$3,458	528	$3,633
127	95 Miles to Go	Documentary		$3,195	488	$3,357
128	Edvard Munch	Drama	Not Rated	$2,955	451	$3,103
129	39 Pounds of Love	Documentary	Not Rated	$2,658	406	$2,793
130	Mardi Gras: Made in China	Documentary		$2,500	382	$2,628
131	Herbie Hancock: Possibilities	Documentary		$2,493	381	$2,621
132	Rank	Documentary		$2,485	379	$2,608
133	Blossoms of Fire	Documentary		$2,390	365	$2,511
134	The Big Question	Documentary	PG-13	$2,248	343	$2,360
135	Workingman's Death	Documentary		$2,214	338	$2,325
136	Reel Paradise	Documentary	R	$1,515	231	$1,589
137	Therese	Drama	PG	$1,204	184	$1,266
138	The Ister	Documentary		$1,124	172	$1,183
139	The Empire in Africa	Documentary		$1,088	166	$1,142
140	Aristide and the Endless Revolution	Documentary	Not Rated	$772	118	$812
Total Gross of All Movies				$726,778,760
Total Tickets Sold					110,958,596
Total Gross of All Movies at 2008 ticket prices						$763,395,140

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.