Box Office Performance for Zeitgeist Movies in 2009

Rank	Movie	Genre	MPAA	2009 Gross	Tickets Sold	Inflation- Adjusted Gross
1	Tulpan	Comedy	Not Rated	$158,741	21,165	$166,992
2	The Horse Boy	Documentary		$137,495	18,333	$144,647
3	Fados	Drama	Not Rated	$129,150	17,220	$135,866
4	Examined Life	Documentary	Not Rated	$120,712	16,095	$126,990
5	Afghan Star	Documentary		$102,115	13,615	$107,422
6	Three Monkeys		Not Rated	$41,343	5,512	$43,490
7	Trouble the Water	Documentary	Not Rated	$33,569	4,476	$35,316
8	Earth Days	Documentary		$26,748	3,566	$28,136
9	Stranded: I've Come from a Plane that Crashed on the Mountains	Documentary	Not Rated	$25,473	3,396	$26,794
10	A Town Called Panic	Comedy		$17,542	2,339	$18,455
11	Act of God			$9,955	1,327	$10,470
12	Louise Bourgeois	Documentary	Not Rated	$7,868	1,049	$8,277
Total Gross of All Movies				$810,711
Total Tickets Sold					108,093
Total Gross of All Movies at 2008 ticket prices						$852,854

Note: This chart ranks movies by the amount they earned during 2009. It includes movies released in previous years that earned money during 2009. For example, a movie released over Thanksgiving in 2008 will most likely earn money in 2008 and 2009. 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.