Box Office Performance for Factual Movies in 2006

Rank	Movie	Genre	MPAA	2006 Gross	Tickets Sold	Inflation- Adjusted Gross
1	Jackass: Number Two	Comedy	R	$72,778,712	11,111,254	$76,445,428
2	An Inconvenient Truth	Documentary	PG	$24,146,161	3,686,437	$25,362,687
3	Deep Sea 3-D	Documentary	G	$21,973,886	3,354,792	$23,080,969
4	Dave Chappelle's Block Party	Documentary	R	$11,718,595	1,789,098	$12,308,994
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	Neil Young: Heart of Gold	Concert/Performance	PG	$1,828,069	279,095	$1,920,174
10	Who Killed the Electric Car?	Documentary	PG	$1,678,874	256,317	$1,763,461
11	Bugs!	Documentary	Not Rated	$1,619,294	247,220	$1,700,874
12	Aliens of the Deep	Documentary	G	$1,206,247	184,160	$1,267,021
13	Galapagos	Documentary	Not Rated	$1,132,540	172,907	$1,189,600
14	Shut Up and Sing	Documentary	R	$1,120,005	170,993	$1,176,432
15	The U.S. vs John Lennon	Documentary	PG-13	$1,109,146	169,335	$1,165,025
16	Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man	Documentary	PG-13	$1,044,254	159,428	$1,096,865
17	Space Station	Documentary	Not Rated	$1,031,820	157,530	$1,083,806
18	Jesus Camp	Documentary	PG-13	$872,124	133,149	$916,065
19	The Heart of the Game	Documentary	PG-13	$444,687	67,891	$467,090
20	Sketches of Frank Gehry	Documentary		$439,309	67,070	$461,442
21	Ballets Russes	Documentary	Not Rated	$364,725	55,683	$383,099
22	The Devil and Daniel Johnston	Documentary	PG-13	$334,450	51,061	$351,300
23	Don't Trip, He Ain't Through With Me Yet	Concert/Performance		$319,088	48,716	$335,166
24	This Film is Not Yet Rated	Documentary	Not Rated	$306,845	46,847	$322,307
25	The Boys of Baraka	Documentary	R	$276,318	42,186	$290,240
26	American Hardcore	Documentary	R	$265,992	40,609	$279,390
27	The War Tapes	Documentary	Not Rated	$254,190	38,808	$266,999
28	49 Up	Documentary		$238,073	36,347	$250,067
29	Pulse: A Stomp Odyssey	Documentary	Not Rated	$226,500	34,580	$237,910
30	Deliver Us From Evil	Documentary		$201,275	30,729	$211,416
31	Sarah Silverman: Jesus is Magic	Concert/Performance	Not Rated	$174,914	26,704	$183,724
32	Our Brand is Crisis	Documentary		$166,750	25,458	$175,151
33	Gay Sex in the 70's	Documentary	Not Rated	$163,940	25,029	$172,200
34	Cocaine Cowboys	Documentary		$163,000	24,885	$171,209
35	Awesome: I F%!#in' Shot That	Concert/Performance	R	$162,538	24,815	$170,727
36	Once in a Lifetime: the Extraordinary Story of the New York Cosmos	Documentary	PG-13	$144,601	22,076	$151,883
37	What the Bleep?: Down the Rabbit Hole	Documentary		$135,706	20,718	$142,540
38	Stolen	Documentary		$132,596	20,244	$139,279
39	Unknown White Male	Documentary	PG-13	$126,836	19,364	$133,224
40	Sir! No Sir!	Documentary		$116,944	17,854	$122,836
41	Darwin's Nightmare	Documentary	Not Rated	$106,132	16,203	$111,477
42	Al Franken: God Spoke	Documentary		$102,990	15,724	$108,181
43	America: Freedom to Fascism	Documentary		$87,400	13,344	$91,807
44	After Innocence	Documentary	Not Rated	$78,260	11,948	$82,202
45	Crossing the Bridge: The Sound of Istanbul	Documentary		$70,685	10,792	$74,249
46	Be Here to Love Me: A Film About Townes van Zandt	Documentary		$67,315	10,277	$70,706
47	Iraq in Fragments	Documentary		$64,116	9,789	$67,348
48	Absolute Wilson	Documentary		$53,170	8,118	$55,852
49	Screamers	Documentary		$52,034	7,944	$54,655
50	Encounter in the Third Dimension	Drama	Not Rated	$48,877	7,462	$51,339
51	Tibet: A Buddhist Trilogy	Documentary		$47,243	7,213	$49,625
52	New York Doll	Documentary	PG-13	$43,616	6,659	$45,814
53	Touch the Sound	Documentary	Not Rated	$40,004	6,107	$42,016
54	Been Rich All My Life	Documentary		$36,406	5,558	$38,239
55	Paper Dolls	Documentary		$36,089	5,510	$37,909
56	My Country My Country	Documentary		$33,620	5,133	$35,315
57	Sisters in Law	Documentary		$33,312	5,086	$34,992
58	The Untold story of Emmett Till	Documentary	Not Rated	$33,040	5,044	$34,703
59	Excellent Cadavers	Documentary		$30,296	4,625	$31,820
60	Who Gets to Call It Art?	Documentary		$27,344	4,175	$28,724
61	Trudell	Documentary		$26,756	4,085	$28,105
62	Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Impassioned Eye	Documentary		$25,347	3,870	$26,626
63	Wrestling with Angels	Documentary		$24,729	3,775	$25,972
64	Islam: What the West Needs to Know	Documentary	Not Rated	$22,938	3,502	$24,094
65	*Fck**	Documentary	Not Rated	$22,359	3,414	$23,488
66	Giuliani Time	Documentary		$21,967	3,354	$23,076
67	The Last Dispatch	Documentary		$20,684	3,158	$21,727
68	The Ground Truth: After the Killing Ends	Documentary	R	$20,013	3,055	$21,018
69	Suicide Killers	Documentary		$18,239	2,785	$19,161
70	Protocols of Zion	Documentary	Not Rated	$17,558	2,681	$18,445
71	The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill	Documentary	G	$16,936	2,586	$17,792
72	So Much So Fast	Documentary		$16,411	2,505	$17,234
73	The Aristocrats	Comedy	Not Rated	$16,091	2,457	$16,904
74	Through the Fire	Documentary		$14,769	2,255	$15,514
75	Devil's Miner	Documentary		$14,289	2,182	$15,012
76	Who the #$^% is Jackson Pollock?	Documentary		$13,710	2,093	$14,400
77	I Trust You To Kill Me	Documentary		$12,854	1,962	$13,499
78	Words of My Perfect Teacher	Documentary		$12,653	1,932	$13,292
79	Music from the Inside Out	Documentary	Not Rated	$11,901	1,817	$12,501
80	Abduction: The Megumi Yokota Story	Documentary		$11,509	1,757	$12,088
81	Favela Rising	Documentary		$10,565	1,613	$11,097
82	So Goes the Nation	Documentary		$10,337	1,578	$10,857
83	Searching for Wrong-Eyed Jesus	Documentary	Not Rated	$9,608	1,467	$10,093
84	Adrenaline Rush: The Science of Risk	Documentary	Not Rated	$8,750	1,336	$9,192
85	Kill Your Idols	Documentary		$7,753	1,184	$8,146
86	The Cult of the Suicide Bomber	Documentary		$7,451	1,138	$7,829
87	Saint of 9/11	Documentary		$7,137	1,090	$7,499
88	The Case of the Grinning Cat	Documentary		$7,033	1,074	$7,389
89	Romántico	Documentary		$6,635	1,013	$6,969
90	The Goebbels Experiment	Documentary	Not Rated	$6,400	977	$6,722
91	Bullrider	Documentary		$5,800	885	$6,089
92	King Leopold's Ghost	Documentary		$5,194	793	$5,456
93	Street Fight	Documentary		$4,779	730	$5,022
94	The Fall of Fujimori	Documentary		$4,630	707	$4,864
95	Cowboy Del Amor	Documentary		$4,438	678	$4,665
96	Out of Place: Memories of Edward Said	Documentary		$3,897	595	$4,094
97	Commune	Documentary	Not Rated	$3,458	528	$3,633
98	95 Miles to Go	Documentary		$3,195	488	$3,357
99	39 Pounds of Love	Documentary	Not Rated	$2,658	406	$2,793
100	Mardi Gras: Made in China	Documentary		$2,500	382	$2,628
101	Herbie Hancock: Possibilities	Documentary		$2,493	381	$2,621
102	Rank	Documentary		$2,485	379	$2,608
103	Blossoms of Fire	Documentary		$2,390	365	$2,511
104	The Big Question	Documentary	PG-13	$2,248	343	$2,360
105	Workingman's Death	Documentary		$2,214	338	$2,325
106	Reel Paradise	Documentary	R	$1,515	231	$1,589
107	The Ister	Documentary		$1,124	172	$1,183
108	The Empire in Africa	Documentary		$1,088	166	$1,142
109	Aristide and the Endless Revolution	Documentary	Not Rated	$772	118	$812
Total Gross of All Movies				$165,471,111
Total Tickets Sold					25,262,770
Total Gross of All Movies at 2008 ticket prices						$173,807,858

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.