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	$87,667,794
2	An Inconvenient Truth	Documentary	PG	$23,814,997	3,635,877	$28,687,070
3	Deep Sea 3-D	Documentary	G	$21,973,886	3,354,792	$26,469,309
4	Dave Chappelle's Block Party	Documentary	R	$11,694,528	1,785,424	$14,086,995
5	Wild Safari 3D	Documentary	Not Rated	$5,790,595	884,060	$6,975,233
6	Roving Mars	Documentary	G	$5,488,881	837,997	$6,611,796
7	Wordplay	Documentary	PG	$3,119,555	476,268	$3,757,755
8	Why We Fight	Documentary	PG-13	$1,880,863	287,155	$2,265,653
9	Neil Young: Heart of Gold	Concert/Performance	PG	$1,827,544	279,014	$2,201,420
10	Who Killed the Electric Car?	Documentary	PG	$1,678,874	256,317	$2,022,341
11	Bugs!	Documentary	Not Rated	$1,619,294	247,220	$1,950,566
12	Aliens of the Deep	Documentary	G	$1,205,006	183,970	$1,451,523
13	Galapagos	Documentary	Not Rated	$1,131,289	172,716	$1,362,729
14	Shut Up and Sing	Documentary	R	$1,120,005	170,993	$1,349,135
15	The U.S. vs John Lennon	Documentary	PG-13	$1,109,146	169,335	$1,336,053
16	Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man	Documentary	PG-13	$1,044,254	159,428	$1,257,887
17	Space Station	Documentary	Not Rated	$1,029,457	157,169	$1,240,063
18	Jesus Camp	Documentary	PG-13	$872,899	133,267	$1,051,477
19	The Heart of the Game	Documentary	PG-13	$444,687	67,891	$535,660
20	Sketches of Frank Gehry	Documentary	PG-13	$439,309	67,070	$529,182
21	Ballets Russes	Documentary	Not Rated	$360,435	55,028	$434,171
22	The Devil and Daniel Johnston	Documentary	PG-13	$334,450	51,061	$402,871
23	Don't Trip, He Ain't Through With Me Yet	Concert/Performance	Not Rated	$319,088	48,716	$384,369
24	This Film is Not Yet Rated	Documentary	Not Rated	$306,845	46,847	$369,623
25	The Boys of Baraka	Documentary	R	$273,819	41,804	$329,834
26	American Hardcore	Documentary	R	$265,992	40,609	$320,405
27	The War Tapes	Documentary	Not Rated	$254,190	38,808	$306,195
28	49 Up	Documentary	Not Rated	$240,215	36,674	$289,358
29	Deliver Us From Evil	Documentary	Not Rated	$201,275	30,729	$242,452
30	Our Brand is Crisis	Documentary	Not Rated	$166,750	25,458	$200,864
31	Awesome: I F%!#in' Shot That	Concert/Performance	R	$161,351	24,634	$194,362
32	Sarah Silverman: Jesus is Magic	Concert/Performance	Not Rated	$160,486	24,502	$193,321
33	Gay Sex in the 70's	Documentary	Not Rated	$156,979	23,966	$189,092
34	Cocaine Cowboys	Documentary	R	$150,056	22,909	$180,752
35	Once in a Lifetime: the Extraordinary Story of the New York Cosmos	Documentary	PG-13	$144,601	22,076	$174,180
36	What the Bleep?: Down the Rabbit Hole	Documentary	Not Rated	$135,706	20,718	$163,465
37	Stolen	Documentary	Not Rated	$132,596	20,244	$159,725
38	Unknown White Male	Documentary	PG-13	$124,414	18,995	$149,871
39	Sir! No Sir!	Documentary	Not Rated	$116,944	17,854	$140,868
40	Darwin's Nightmare	Documentary	Not Rated	$106,032	16,188	$127,723
41	Al Franken: God Spoke	Documentary	Not Rated	$102,990	15,724	$124,062
42	America: Freedom to Fascism	Documentary	Not Rated	$87,400	13,344	$105,284
43	51 Birch Street	Documentary	Not Rated	$84,689	12,930	$102,018
44	After Innocence	Documentary	Not Rated	$78,076	11,920	$94,049
45	Crossing the Bridge: The Sound of Istanbul	Documentary	Not Rated	$70,685	10,792	$85,149
46	Iraq in Fragments	Documentary	Not Rated	$68,223	10,416	$82,182
47	Be Here to Love Me: A Film About Townes van Zandt	Documentary	Not Rated	$66,827	10,203	$80,502
48	Absolute Wilson	Documentary	Not Rated	$54,176	8,271	$65,258
49	Screamers	Documentary		$52,034	7,944	$62,678
50	Encounter in the Third Dimension	Drama	Not Rated	$48,877	7,462	$58,875
51	Tibet: A Buddhist Trilogy	Documentary	Not Rated	$45,171	6,896	$54,409
52	New York Doll	Documentary	PG-13	$43,405	6,627	$52,287
53	Touch the Sound	Documentary	Not Rated	$40,004	6,107	$48,184
54	Been Rich All My Life	Documentary	Not Rated	$36,406	5,558	$43,853
55	Bubot Niyar	Documentary	Not Rated	$36,089	5,510	$43,474
56	My Country My Country	Documentary	Not Rated	$33,620	5,133	$40,499
57	Sisters in Law	Documentary	Not Rated	$33,312	5,086	$40,129
58	The Untold story of Emmett Till	Documentary	Not Rated	$30,565	4,666	$36,815
59	Excellent Cadavers	Documentary	Not Rated	$30,296	4,625	$36,491
60	Who Gets to Call It Art?	Documentary	Not Rated	$27,344	4,175	$32,941
61	Trudell	Documentary	Not Rated	$25,645	3,915	$30,889
62	Henri Cartier-Bresson - Biographie eines Blicks	Documentary	Not Rated	$25,347	3,870	$30,534
63	Wrestling with Angels	Documentary	Not Rated	$24,729	3,775	$29,785
64	Islam: What the West Needs to Know	Documentary	Not Rated	$22,938	3,502	$27,631
65	*Fck**	Documentary	Not Rated	$22,359	3,414	$26,936
66	Giuliani Time	Documentary	Not Rated	$21,967	3,354	$26,463
67	The Ground Truth: After the Killing Ends	Documentary	R	$20,013	3,055	$24,104
68	Suicide Killers	Documentary	Not Rated	$18,239	2,785	$21,974
69	The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill	Documentary	G	$16,638	2,540	$20,041
70	So Much So Fast	Documentary	Not Rated	$16,411	2,505	$19,764
71	Protocols of Zion	Documentary	Not Rated	$16,303	2,489	$19,638
72	The Aristocrats	Comedy	Not Rated	$15,685	2,395	$18,897
73	Through the Fire	Documentary	Not Rated	$14,769	2,255	$17,792
74	Who the #$^% is Jackson Pollock?	Documentary	Not Rated	$13,710	2,093	$16,514
75	Devil's Miner	Documentary	Not Rated	$13,677	2,088	$16,474
76	I Trust You To Kill Me	Documentary	R	$12,854	1,962	$15,480
77	Words of My Perfect Teacher	Documentary	Not Rated	$12,653	1,932	$15,243
78	Cottonfields and Crossroads	Documentary		$12,000	1,832	$14,454
79	Music from the Inside Out	Documentary	Not Rated	$11,901	1,817	$14,336
80	Abduction: The Megumi Yokota Story	Documentary	Not Rated	$11,836	1,807	$14,257
81	So Goes the Nation	Documentary	Not Rated	$10,337	1,578	$12,450
82	Rom�ntico	Documentary	Not Rated	$9,598	1,465	$11,559
83	Salvadore Allende	Documentary	Not Rated	$7,820	1,194	$9,421
84	Favela Rising	Documentary	Not Rated	$7,768	1,186	$9,358
85	Kill Your Idols	Documentary	Not Rated	$7,753	1,184	$9,342
86	Saint of 9/11	Documentary	Not Rated	$7,137	1,090	$8,600
87	The Case of the Grinning Cat	Documentary	Not Rated	$7,033	1,074	$8,474
88	Searching for Wrong-Eyed Jesus	Documentary	Not Rated	$6,907	1,055	$8,324
89	Das Goebbels-Experiment	Documentary	Not Rated	$6,400	977	$7,709
90	Bullrider	Documentary		$5,800	885	$6,983
91	King Leopold's Ghost	Documentary	PG-13	$5,194	793	$6,257
92	Matthew Barney: No Restraint	Documentary	Not Rated	$5,057	772	$6,091
93	Street Fight	Documentary	Not Rated	$4,779	730	$5,760
94	The Fall of Fujimori	Documentary	Not Rated	$4,630	707	$5,578
95	Cowboy Del Amor	Documentary	Not Rated	$4,438	678	$5,349
96	Out of Place: Memories of Edward Said	Documentary	Not Rated	$3,897	595	$4,695
97	The Cult of the Suicide Bomber	Documentary	Not Rated	$3,609	551	$4,347
98	39 Pounds of Love	Documentary	Not Rated	$2,658	406	$3,203
99	Mardi Gras: Made in China	Documentary	Not Rated	$2,500	382	$3,014
100	Rank	Documentary		$2,485	379	$2,990
101	Blossoms of Fire	Documentary	Not Rated	$2,390	365	$2,880
102	Workingman's Death	Documentary	Not Rated	$2,214	338	$2,667
103	95 Miles to Go	Documentary	R	$2,203	336	$2,651
104	Commune	Documentary	Not Rated	$2,055	314	$2,477
105	Herbie Hancock: Possibilities	Documentary	Not Rated	$1,772	271	$2,138
106	The Big Question	Documentary	PG-13	$1,609	246	$1,941
107	Reel Paradise	Documentary	R	$1,515	231	$1,823
108	The Ister	Documentary	Not Rated	$1,124	172	$1,357
109	The Empire in Africa	Documentary	Not Rated	$1,088	166	$1,310
110	Aristide and the Endless Revolution	Documentary	Not Rated	$772	118	$931
Total Gross of All Movies				$165,728,410
Total Tickets Sold					25,302,049
Total Gross of All Movies at 2008 ticket prices						$199,633,167

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.