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	$79,778,804
2	An Inconvenient Truth	Documentary	PG	$23,814,997	3,635,877	$26,105,597
3	Deep Sea 3-D	Documentary	G	$21,973,886	3,354,792	$24,087,407
4	Dave Chappelle's Block Party	Documentary	R	$11,694,528	1,785,424	$12,819,344
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	Neil Young: Heart of Gold	Concert/Performance	PG	$1,827,544	279,014	$2,003,321
10	Who Killed the Electric Car?	Documentary	PG	$1,678,874	256,317	$1,840,356
11	Bugs!	Documentary	Not Rated	$1,619,294	247,220	$1,775,040
12	Aliens of the Deep	Documentary	G	$1,205,006	183,970	$1,320,905
13	Galapagos	Documentary	Not Rated	$1,131,289	172,716	$1,240,101
14	Shut Up and Sing	Documentary	R	$1,120,005	170,993	$1,227,730
15	The U.S. vs John Lennon	Documentary	PG-13	$1,109,146	169,335	$1,215,825
16	Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man	Documentary	PG-13	$1,044,254	159,428	$1,144,693
17	Space Station	Documentary	Not Rated	$1,029,457	157,169	$1,128,473
18	Jesus Camp	Documentary	PG-13	$872,899	133,267	$956,857
19	The Heart of the Game	Documentary	PG-13	$444,687	67,891	$487,457
20	Sketches of Frank Gehry	Documentary	PG-13	$439,309	67,070	$481,563
21	Ballets Russes	Documentary	Not Rated	$360,435	55,028	$395,101
22	The Devil and Daniel Johnston	Documentary	PG-13	$334,450	51,061	$366,618
23	Don't Trip, He Ain't Through With Me Yet	Concert/Performance	Not Rated	$319,088	48,716	$349,781
24	This Film is Not Yet Rated	Documentary	Not Rated	$306,845	46,847	$336,361
25	The Boys of Baraka	Documentary	R	$273,819	41,804	$300,153
26	American Hardcore	Documentary	R	$265,992	40,609	$291,573
27	The War Tapes	Documentary	Not Rated	$254,190	38,808	$278,641
28	49 Up	Documentary	Not Rated	$240,215	36,674	$263,319
29	Deliver Us From Evil	Documentary	Not Rated	$201,275	30,729	$220,634
30	Our Brand is Crisis	Documentary	Not Rated	$166,750	25,458	$182,788
31	Awesome: I F%!#in' Shot That	Concert/Performance	R	$161,351	24,634	$176,872
32	Sarah Silverman: Jesus is Magic	Concert/Performance	Not Rated	$160,486	24,502	$175,924
33	Gay Sex in the 70's	Documentary	Not Rated	$156,979	23,966	$172,076
34	Cocaine Cowboys	Documentary	R	$150,056	22,909	$164,487
35	Once in a Lifetime: the Extraordinary Story of the New York Cosmos	Documentary	PG-13	$144,601	22,076	$158,506
36	What the Bleep?: Down the Rabbit Hole	Documentary	Not Rated	$135,706	20,718	$148,755
37	Stolen	Documentary	Not Rated	$132,596	20,244	$145,352
38	Unknown White Male	Documentary	PG-13	$124,414	18,995	$136,384
39	Sir! No Sir!	Documentary	Not Rated	$116,944	17,854	$128,192
40	Darwin's Nightmare	Documentary	Not Rated	$106,032	16,188	$116,230
41	Al Franken: God Spoke	Documentary	Not Rated	$102,990	15,724	$112,898
42	America: Freedom to Fascism	Documentary	Not Rated	$87,400	13,344	$95,810
43	After Innocence	Documentary	Not Rated	$78,076	11,920	$85,586
44	Crossing the Bridge: The Sound of Istanbul	Documentary	Not Rated	$70,685	10,792	$77,487
45	Iraq in Fragments	Documentary	Not Rated	$68,223	10,416	$74,787
46	Be Here to Love Me: A Film About Townes van Zandt	Documentary	Not Rated	$66,827	10,203	$73,258
47	Absolute Wilson	Documentary	Not Rated	$54,176	8,271	$59,386
48	Screamers	Documentary		$52,034	7,944	$57,038
49	Encounter in the Third Dimension	Drama	Not Rated	$48,877	7,462	$53,577
50	Tibet: A Buddhist Trilogy	Documentary	Not Rated	$45,171	6,896	$49,513
51	New York Doll	Documentary	PG-13	$43,405	6,627	$47,582
52	Touch the Sound	Documentary	Not Rated	$40,004	6,107	$43,848
53	Been Rich All My Life	Documentary	Not Rated	$36,406	5,558	$39,906
54	Paper Dolls	Documentary	Not Rated	$36,089	5,510	$39,562
55	My Country My Country	Documentary	Not Rated	$33,620	5,133	$36,855
56	Sisters in Law	Documentary	Not Rated	$33,312	5,086	$36,517
57	The Untold story of Emmett Till	Documentary	Not Rated	$30,565	4,666	$33,502
58	Excellent Cadavers	Documentary	Not Rated	$30,296	4,625	$33,208
59	Who Gets to Call It Art?	Documentary	Not Rated	$27,344	4,175	$29,977
60	Trudell	Documentary	Not Rated	$25,645	3,915	$28,110
61	Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Impassioned Eye	Documentary	Not Rated	$25,347	3,870	$27,787
62	Wrestling with Angels	Documentary	Not Rated	$24,729	3,775	$27,105
63	Islam: What the West Needs to Know	Documentary	Not Rated	$22,938	3,502	$25,144
64	*Fck**	Documentary	Not Rated	$22,359	3,414	$24,513
65	Giuliani Time	Documentary	Not Rated	$21,967	3,354	$24,082
66	The Ground Truth: After the Killing Ends	Documentary	R	$20,013	3,055	$21,935
67	Suicide Killers	Documentary	Not Rated	$18,239	2,785	$19,996
68	The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill	Documentary	G	$16,638	2,540	$18,237
69	So Much So Fast	Documentary	Not Rated	$16,411	2,505	$17,986
70	Protocols of Zion	Documentary	Not Rated	$16,303	2,489	$17,871
71	The Aristocrats	Comedy	Not Rated	$15,685	2,395	$17,196
72	Through the Fire	Documentary	Not Rated	$14,769	2,255	$16,191
73	Who the #$^% is Jackson Pollock?	Documentary	Not Rated	$13,710	2,093	$15,028
74	Devil's Miner	Documentary	Not Rated	$13,677	2,088	$14,992
75	I Trust You To Kill Me	Documentary	R	$12,854	1,962	$14,087
76	Words of My Perfect Teacher	Documentary	Not Rated	$12,653	1,932	$13,872
77	Music from the Inside Out	Documentary	Not Rated	$11,901	1,817	$13,046
78	Abduction: The Megumi Yokota Story	Documentary	Not Rated	$11,836	1,807	$12,974
79	So Goes the Nation	Documentary	Not Rated	$10,337	1,578	$11,330
80	Rom�ntico	Documentary	Not Rated	$9,598	1,465	$10,519
81	Salvadore Allende	Documentary	Not Rated	$7,820	1,194	$8,573
82	Favela Rising	Documentary	Not Rated	$7,768	1,186	$8,515
83	Kill Your Idols	Documentary	Not Rated	$7,753	1,184	$8,501
84	Saint of 9/11	Documentary	Not Rated	$7,137	1,090	$7,826
85	The Case of the Grinning Cat	Documentary	Not Rated	$7,033	1,074	$7,711
86	Searching for Wrong-Eyed Jesus	Documentary	Not Rated	$6,907	1,055	$7,575
87	The Goebbels Experiment	Documentary	Not Rated	$6,400	977	$7,015
88	Bullrider	Documentary		$5,800	885	$6,354
89	King Leopold's Ghost	Documentary	PG-13	$5,194	793	$5,694
90	Matthew Barney: No Restraint	Documentary	Not Rated	$5,057	772	$5,543
91	Street Fight	Documentary	Not Rated	$4,779	730	$5,241
92	The Fall of Fujimori	Documentary	Not Rated	$4,630	707	$5,076
93	Cowboy Del Amor	Documentary	Not Rated	$4,438	678	$4,868
94	Out of Place: Memories of Edward Said	Documentary	Not Rated	$3,897	595	$4,272
95	The Cult of the Suicide Bomber	Documentary	Not Rated	$3,609	551	$3,956
96	39 Pounds of Love	Documentary	Not Rated	$2,658	406	$2,915
97	Mardi Gras: Made in China	Documentary	Not Rated	$2,500	382	$2,743
98	Rank	Documentary		$2,485	379	$2,721
99	Blossoms of Fire	Documentary	Not Rated	$2,390	365	$2,621
100	Workingman's Death	Documentary	Not Rated	$2,214	338	$2,427
101	95 Miles to Go	Documentary	R	$2,203	336	$2,412
102	Commune	Documentary	Not Rated	$2,055	314	$2,255
103	Herbie Hancock: Possibilities	Documentary	Not Rated	$1,772	271	$1,946
104	The Big Question	Documentary	PG-13	$1,609	246	$1,766
105	Reel Paradise	Documentary	R	$1,515	231	$1,659
106	The Ister	Documentary	Not Rated	$1,124	172	$1,235
107	The Empire in Africa	Documentary	Not Rated	$1,088	166	$1,192
108	Aristide and the Endless Revolution	Documentary	Not Rated	$772	118	$847
Total Gross of All Movies				$165,631,721
Total Tickets Sold					25,287,287
Total Gross of All Movies at 2008 ticket prices						$181,562,721

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.