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	$23,814,997	3,635,877	$26,105,597
2	Deep Sea 3-D	Documentary	G	$21,973,886	3,354,792	$24,087,407
3	Dave Chappelle's Block Party	Documentary	R	$11,694,528	1,785,424	$12,819,344
4	Magnificent Desolation	Documentary	Not Rated	$10,605,930	1,619,226	$11,626,043
5	Wild Safari 3D	Documentary	Not Rated	$5,790,595	884,060	$6,347,551
6	Roving Mars	Documentary	G	$5,488,881	837,997	$6,016,818
7	Wordplay	Documentary	PG	$3,119,555	476,268	$3,419,604
8	Why We Fight	Documentary	PG-13	$1,880,863	287,155	$2,061,773
9	Who Killed the Electric Car?	Documentary	PG	$1,678,874	256,317	$1,840,356
10	Bugs!	Documentary	Not Rated	$1,619,294	247,220	$1,775,040
11	Aliens of the Deep	Documentary	G	$1,205,006	183,970	$1,320,905
12	Galapagos	Documentary	Not Rated	$1,131,289	172,716	$1,240,101
13	Shut Up and Sing	Documentary	R	$1,120,005	170,993	$1,227,730
14	The U.S. vs John Lennon	Documentary	PG-13	$1,109,146	169,335	$1,215,825
15	Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man	Documentary	PG-13	$1,044,254	159,428	$1,144,693
16	Space Station	Documentary	Not Rated	$1,029,457	157,169	$1,128,473
17	Jesus Camp	Documentary	PG-13	$872,899	133,267	$956,857
18	The Heart of the Game	Documentary	PG-13	$444,687	67,891	$487,457
19	Sketches of Frank Gehry	Documentary	PG-13	$439,309	67,070	$481,563
20	Ballets Russes	Documentary	Not Rated	$360,435	55,028	$395,101
21	The Devil and Daniel Johnston	Documentary	PG-13	$334,450	51,061	$366,618
22	This Film is Not Yet Rated	Documentary	Not Rated	$306,845	46,847	$336,361
23	The Boys of Baraka	Documentary	R	$273,819	41,804	$300,153
24	American Hardcore	Documentary	R	$265,992	40,609	$291,573
25	The War Tapes	Documentary	Not Rated	$254,190	38,808	$278,641
26	49 Up	Documentary	Not Rated	$240,215	36,674	$263,319
27	The Beauty Academy of Kabul	Documentary	Not Rated	$225,448	34,420	$247,136
28	Deliver Us From Evil	Documentary	Not Rated	$201,275	30,729	$220,634
29	Our Brand is Crisis	Documentary	Not Rated	$166,750	25,458	$182,788
30	Gay Sex in the 70's	Documentary	Not Rated	$156,979	23,966	$172,076
31	Cocaine Cowboys	Documentary	R	$150,056	22,909	$164,487
32	Once in a Lifetime: the Extraordinary Story of the New York Cosmos	Documentary	PG-13	$144,601	22,076	$158,506
33	What the Bleep?: Down the Rabbit Hole	Documentary	Not Rated	$135,706	20,718	$148,755
34	Stolen	Documentary	Not Rated	$132,596	20,244	$145,352
35	Unknown White Male	Documentary	PG-13	$124,414	18,995	$136,384
36	Sir! No Sir!	Documentary	Not Rated	$116,944	17,854	$128,192
37	Darwin's Nightmare	Documentary	Not Rated	$106,032	16,188	$116,230
38	Al Franken: God Spoke	Documentary	Not Rated	$102,990	15,724	$112,898
39	America: Freedom to Fascism	Documentary	Not Rated	$87,400	13,344	$95,810
40	After Innocence	Documentary	Not Rated	$78,076	11,920	$85,586
41	Crossing the Bridge: The Sound of Istanbul	Documentary	Not Rated	$70,685	10,792	$77,487
42	Iraq in Fragments	Documentary	Not Rated	$68,223	10,416	$74,787
43	Be Here to Love Me: A Film About Townes van Zandt	Documentary	Not Rated	$66,827	10,203	$73,258
44	Absolute Wilson	Documentary	Not Rated	$54,176	8,271	$59,386
45	Plagues and Pleasures on the Salton Sea	Documentary	Not Rated	$53,471	8,164	$58,618
46	Screamers	Documentary		$52,034	7,944	$57,038
47	Shakespeare Behind Bars	Documentary	Not Rated	$48,594	7,419	$53,268
48	Tibet: A Buddhist Trilogy	Documentary	Not Rated	$45,171	6,896	$49,513
49	New York Doll	Documentary	PG-13	$43,405	6,627	$47,582
50	Touch the Sound	Documentary	Not Rated	$40,004	6,107	$43,848
51	Rape of the Soul	Documentary	R	$39,975	6,103	$43,820
52	Been Rich All My Life	Documentary	Not Rated	$36,406	5,558	$39,906
53	Paper Dolls	Documentary	Not Rated	$36,089	5,510	$39,562
54	My Country My Country	Documentary	Not Rated	$33,620	5,133	$36,855
55	Sisters in Law	Documentary	Not Rated	$33,312	5,086	$36,517
56	The Untold story of Emmett Till	Documentary	Not Rated	$30,565	4,666	$33,502
57	Excellent Cadavers	Documentary	Not Rated	$30,296	4,625	$33,208
58	Who Gets to Call It Art?	Documentary	Not Rated	$27,344	4,175	$29,977
59	Trudell	Documentary	Not Rated	$25,645	3,915	$28,110
60	Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Impassioned Eye	Documentary	Not Rated	$25,347	3,870	$27,787
61	Wrestling with Angels	Documentary	Not Rated	$24,729	3,775	$27,105
62	Islam: What the West Needs to Know	Documentary	Not Rated	$22,938	3,502	$25,144
63	*Fck**	Documentary	Not Rated	$22,359	3,414	$24,513
64	Giuliani Time	Documentary	Not Rated	$21,967	3,354	$24,082
65	The Ground Truth: After the Killing Ends	Documentary	R	$20,013	3,055	$21,935
66	Suicide Killers	Documentary	Not Rated	$18,239	2,785	$19,996
67	The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill	Documentary	G	$16,638	2,540	$18,237
68	So Much So Fast	Documentary	Not Rated	$16,411	2,505	$17,986
69	Protocols of Zion	Documentary	Not Rated	$16,303	2,489	$17,871
70	Through the Fire	Documentary	Not Rated	$14,769	2,255	$16,191
71	Who the #$^% is Jackson Pollock?	Documentary	Not Rated	$13,710	2,093	$15,028
72	Devil's Miner	Documentary	Not Rated	$13,677	2,088	$14,992
73	I Trust You To Kill Me	Documentary	R	$12,854	1,962	$14,087
74	Words of My Perfect Teacher	Documentary	Not Rated	$12,653	1,932	$13,872
75	Music from the Inside Out	Documentary	Not Rated	$11,901	1,817	$13,046
76	Abduction: The Megumi Yokota Story	Documentary	Not Rated	$11,836	1,807	$12,974
77	So Goes the Nation	Documentary	Not Rated	$10,337	1,578	$11,330
78	Rom�ntico	Documentary	Not Rated	$9,598	1,465	$10,519
79	Salvadore Allende	Documentary	Not Rated	$7,820	1,194	$8,573
80	Favela Rising	Documentary	Not Rated	$7,768	1,186	$8,515
81	Kill Your Idols	Documentary	Not Rated	$7,753	1,184	$8,501
82	Saint of 9/11	Documentary	Not Rated	$7,137	1,090	$7,826
83	The Case of the Grinning Cat	Documentary	Not Rated	$7,033	1,074	$7,711
84	Searching for Wrong-Eyed Jesus	Documentary	Not Rated	$6,907	1,055	$7,575
85	The Goebbels Experiment	Documentary	Not Rated	$6,400	977	$7,015
86	Bullrider	Documentary		$5,800	885	$6,354
87	King Leopold's Ghost	Documentary	PG-13	$5,194	793	$5,694
88	Matthew Barney: No Restraint	Documentary	Not Rated	$5,057	772	$5,543
89	Street Fight	Documentary	Not Rated	$4,779	730	$5,241
90	The Fall of Fujimori	Documentary	Not Rated	$4,630	707	$5,076
91	Cowboy Del Amor	Documentary	Not Rated	$4,438	678	$4,868
92	Out of Place: Memories of Edward Said	Documentary	Not Rated	$3,897	595	$4,272
93	The Cult of the Suicide Bomber	Documentary	Not Rated	$3,609	551	$3,956
94	39 Pounds of Love	Documentary	Not Rated	$2,658	406	$2,915
95	Mardi Gras: Made in China	Documentary	Not Rated	$2,500	382	$2,743
96	Rank	Documentary		$2,485	379	$2,721
97	Blossoms of Fire	Documentary	Not Rated	$2,390	365	$2,621
98	Workingman's Death	Documentary	Not Rated	$2,214	338	$2,427
99	95 Miles to Go	Documentary	R	$2,203	336	$2,412
100	Commune	Documentary	Not Rated	$2,055	314	$2,255
101	Herbie Hancock: Possibilities	Documentary	Not Rated	$1,772	271	$1,946
102	The Big Question	Documentary	PG-13	$1,609	246	$1,766
103	Reel Paradise	Documentary	R	$1,515	231	$1,659
104	The Ister	Documentary	Not Rated	$1,124	172	$1,235
105	The Empire in Africa	Documentary	Not Rated	$1,088	166	$1,192
106	Aristide and the Endless Revolution	Documentary	Not Rated	$772	118	$847
Total Gross of All Movies				$101,293,396
Total Tickets Sold					15,464,642
Total Gross of All Movies at 2008 ticket prices						$111,036,130

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.