Box Office Performance for Documentary Movies in 2011

Rank	Movie	Genre	MPAA	2011 Gross	Tickets Sold	Inflation- Adjusted Gross
1	African Cats	Documentary	G	$15,428,747	1,945,618	$15,350,926
2	Born to be Wild 3D	Documentary	G	$15,183,665	1,914,712	$15,107,078
3	Hubble 3D	Documentary	G	$9,936,258	1,252,996	$9,886,138
4	Cave of Forgotten Dreams	Documentary	G	$5,304,920	668,968	$5,278,158
5	Under the Sea 3D	Documentary	G	$4,948,586	624,034	$4,923,628
6	Buck	Documentary	PG	$4,036,175	508,975	$4,015,813
7	Space Station	Documentary	Not Rated	$2,167,258	273,299	$2,156,329
8	Senna	Documentary	R	$1,612,430	203,333	$1,604,297
9	I Am	Documentary		$1,591,034	200,635	$1,583,010
10	Bill Cunningham New York	Documentary		$1,510,026	190,419	$1,502,406
11	Flying Monsters 3D	Documentary		$1,249,730	157,595	$1,243,425
12	Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels of a Tribe Called Quest	Documentary	R	$1,200,046	151,330	$1,193,994
13	Sholem Aleichem: Laughing in the Darkness	Documentary		$1,131,261	142,656	$1,125,556
14	Page One: Inside the New York Times	Documentary	R	$1,067,028	134,556	$1,061,647
15	Inside Job	Documentary	PG-13	$859,817	108,426	$855,481
16	Tabloid!	Documentary	R	$696,921	87,884	$693,405
17	POM Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold	Documentary	PG-13	$638,476	80,514	$635,255
18	The Last Lions	Documentary	PG	$635,325	80,117	$632,123
19	Deep Sea 3-D	Documentary	G	$524,144	66,096	$521,497
20	Pearl Jam Twenty	Documentary		$471,334	59,437	$468,958
21	Project Nim	Documentary	PG-13	$411,184	51,852	$409,112
22	Turtle: The Incredible Journey	Documentary	G	$391,942	49,425	$389,963
23	L'Amour Fou	Documentary		$312,494	39,407	$310,921
24	The Black Power Mixtape: 1967-1975	Documentary		$273,749	34,521	$272,371
25	Conan O'Brien Can't Stop	Documentary	R	$267,965	33,791	$266,611
26	Phil Ochs	Documentary		$263,723	33,256	$262,390
27	Sea Monsters: A Prehistoric Adventure	Documentary	Not Rated	$262,465	33,098	$261,143
28	PASSIONE: A Musical Adventure	Documentary		$258,222	32,563	$256,922
29	Life in a Day	Documentary	PG	$252,788	31,877	$251,510
30	My Perestroika	Documentary		$242,706	30,606	$241,481
31	The Interrupters	Documentary		$236,957	29,881	$235,761
32	Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey	Documentary	PG	$236,939	29,879	$235,745
33	Pina	Documentary	PG	$228,992	28,877	$227,840
34	Into the Abyss	Documentary	PG-13	$223,340	28,164	$222,214
35	The Wildest Dream	Documentary	PG	$203,839	25,705	$202,812
36	Queen of the Sun	Documentary		$203,100	25,612	$202,079
37	El Bulli: Cooking in Progress	Documentary		$196,127	24,732	$195,135
38	JIG	Documentary	PG	$183,790	23,177	$182,867
39	American: The Bill Hicks Story	Documentary		$174,796	22,042	$173,911
40	The Man Nobody Knew: In Search of My Father, CIA Spymaster William Colby	Documentary		$170,888	21,550	$170,030
41	Magic Trip	Documentary	R	$154,521	19,486	$153,745
42	Revenge of the Electric Car	Documentary	PG-13	$150,886	19,027	$150,123
43	Thunder Soul	Documentary	PG	$143,986	18,157	$143,259
44	Nostalgia de la luz	Documentary		$142,285	17,943	$141,570
45	Eames: The Architect and the Painter	Documentary		$139,813	17,631	$139,109
46	The Last Mountain	Documentary	PG	$122,959	15,506	$122,342
47	Blank City	Documentary		$116,037	14,633	$115,454
48	Rejoice and Shout	Documentary	PG	$100,237	12,640	$99,730
49	The Undefeated	Documentary	PG-13	$100,085	12,621	$99,580
50	Exporting Raymond	Documentary	PG	$87,727	11,063	$87,287
51	Vidal Sassoon: The Movie	Documentary	PG	$85,974	10,842	$85,543
52	Waste Land	Documentary		$85,262	10,752	$84,833
53	Circo	Documentary		$77,466	9,769	$77,077
54	Kings of Pastry	Documentary		$71,904	9,067	$71,539
55	Bhutto	Documentary		$65,239	8,227	$64,911
56	The Whale	Documentary	G	$61,120	7,707	$60,808
57	How to Live Forever	Documentary		$60,630	7,646	$60,327
58	Limelight	Documentary		$60,335	7,608	$60,027
59	Crime after Crime	Documentary		$60,291	7,603	$59,988
60	Finding Joe	Documentary		$55,518	7,001	$55,238
61	Into Eternity	Documentary		$55,366	6,982	$55,088
62	The Other F Word	Documentary		$53,714	6,774	$53,447
63	Farmageddon	Documentary		$53,256	6,716	$52,989
64	!Women, Art, Revolution	Documentary		$52,681	6,643	$52,413
65	My Reincarnation	Documentary		$51,742	6,525	$51,482
66	Orgasm Inc.	Documentary		$49,001	6,179	$48,752
67	Marwencol	Documentary		$48,744	6,147	$48,500
68	Pianomania	Documentary		$47,328	5,968	$47,088
69	Connected: An Autobiography about Love, Death & Technology	Documentary		$46,782	5,899	$46,543
70	The Woodmans	Documentary		$46,623	5,879	$46,385
71	Crazy Wisdom	Documentary		$43,742	5,516	$43,521
72	Love Etc.	Documentary		$43,593	5,497	$43,371
73	Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow	Documentary		$43,214	5,449	$42,993
74	Public Speaking	Documentary		$43,184	5,446	$42,969
75	People v. The State of Illusion	Documentary		$42,202	5,322	$41,991
76	Louder Than A Bomb	Documentary		$40,362	5,090	$40,160
77	Where Soldiers Come From	Documentary		$38,151	4,811	$37,959
78	Granito: How to Nail a Dictator	Documentary		$36,738	4,633	$36,554
79	Hell and Back Again	Documentary		$34,637	4,368	$34,464
80	Making the Boys	Documentary		$33,833	4,266	$33,659
81	American Teacher	Documentary		$33,144	4,180	$32,980
82	HEY, BOO: Harper Lee and To Kill a Mockingbird	Documentary		$31,135	3,926	$30,976
83	Topp Twins Untouchable Girls	Documentary		$29,200	3,682	$29,051
84	Chasing Madoff	Documentary		$28,850	3,638	$28,704
85	Khodorkovsky	Documentary		$27,718	3,495	$27,576
86	Autobiografia lui Nicolae Ceausescu	Documentary		$27,556	3,475	$27,418
87	Enemies of the People	Documentary		$26,708	3,368	$26,574
88	Paul Goodman Changed My Life	Documentary		$25,020	3,155	$24,893
89	Shut Up Little Man! An Audio Misadventure	Documentary		$23,901	3,014	$23,780
90	Jane's Journey	Documentary		$23,746	2,994	$23,623
91	Garbo: El esp�a	Documentary		$22,233	2,804	$22,124
92	Incendiary: The Willingham Case	Documentary		$21,882	2,759	$21,769
93	The Arbor	Documentary		$21,610	2,725	$21,500
94	Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff	Documentary		$20,840	2,628	$20,735
95	Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles	Documentary		$20,726	2,614	$20,624
96	Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer	Documentary	R	$18,587	2,344	$18,494
97	Battle for Brooklyn	Documentary		$17,981	2,267	$17,887
98	Dumbstruck	Documentary	PG	$15,378	1,939	$15,299
99	Strange Powers: Stephin Merritt and the Magnetic Fields	Documentary		$14,567	1,837	$14,494
100	Armadillo	Documentary		$14,566	1,837	$14,494
101	William S. Burroughs: A Man Within	Documentary		$13,772	1,737	$13,705
102	Benda Bilili!	Documentary	PG-13	$13,420	1,692	$13,350
103	Beautiful Darling	Documentary		$13,400	1,690	$13,334
104	Charlotte Rampling: The Look	Documentary		$13,171	1,661	$13,105
105	Under the Boardwalk: The MONOPOLY Story	Documentary	G	$13,080	1,649	$13,011
106	Nenette	Documentary		$12,559	1,584	$12,498
107	America the Beautiful II: The Thin Commandments	Documentary		$12,366	1,559	$12,301
108	Rebirth	Documentary		$12,358	1,558	$12,293
109	Back Door Channels: The Price of Peace	Documentary		$12,139	1,531	$12,080
110	Sarah Palin: You Betcha!	Documentary		$10,935	1,379	$10,880
111	Die Frau mit den 5 Elefanten	Documentary		$9,256	1,167	$9,208
112	Boxing Gym	Documentary		$6,898	870	$6,864
113	Addiction Incorporated	Documentary	PG-13	$6,442	812	$6,407
114	Florent: Queen of the Meat Market	Documentary		$6,282	792	$6,249
115	Saint Misbehavin': The Wavy Gravy Movie	Documentary		$6,007	757	$5,973
116	Elevate	Documentary	PG	$5,580	704	$5,555
117	Sons of Perdition	Documentary	R	$5,401	681	$5,373
118	Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould	Documentary		$5,386	679	$5,357
119	Shoah	Documentary		$4,533	572	$4,513
120	Building Hope	Documentary		$4,000	504	$3,977
121	The Harvest/La Cosecha	Documentary		$3,709	468	$3,693
122	The Sons of Tennessee Williams	Documentary		$3,242	409	$3,227
123	The Swell Season	Documentary		$3,178	401	$3,164
124	Plastic Planet	Documentary		$3,164	399	$3,148
125	The Weird World of Blowfly	Documentary		$3,062	386	$3,046
126	Corman's World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel	Documentary	R	$3,050	385	$3,038
127	Protektor	Documentary		$2,968	374	$2,951
128	Raw Faith	Documentary		$2,711	342	$2,698
129	Forks Over Knives	Documentary	PG	$2,700	340	$2,683
130	Det rode kapel	Documentary		$2,657	335	$2,643
131	Brutal Beauty: Tales of the Rose City Rollers	Documentary		$2,647	334	$2,635
132	Knuckle	Documentary	R	$2,647	334	$2,635
133	American Grindhouse	Documentary		$1,931	244	$1,925
134	Henri-Georges Clouzot's Inferno	Documentary		$1,161	146	$1,152
135	Picture Me: A Model's Diary	Documentary		$160	20	$158
Total Gross of All Movies				$78,727,675
Total Tickets Sold					9,927,830
Total Gross of All Movies at 2008 ticket prices						$78,330,579

Note: This chart ranks movies by the amount they earned during 2011. It includes movies released in previous years that earned money during 2011. For example, a movie released over Thanksgiving in 2010 will most likely earn money in 2010 and 2011. 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.