Box Office History for Genre - Documentary

Ticket Sales and Market Share History

	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011

Top Grossing Movies 1977 - 2011, Adjusted for Ticket Price Inflation

	Movie	Distributor	Release Date	Total Gross	Inflation-Adjusted Gross
1	The Dream is Alive	IMAX Films	12/31/1985	$125,900,000	$279,817,185
2	Fahrenheit 9/11	Lionsgate	6/23/2004	$119,114,517	$151,292,841
3	Everest	MacGillivray Freeman Films	3/6/1998	$87,178,599	$125,785,867
4	The Living Sea	MacGillivray Freeman Films	12/31/1995	$64,800,000	$117,533,795
5	Space Station	IMAX Films	4/19/2002	$84,830,955	$106,533,857
6	To the Limit	MacGillivray Freeman Films	12/31/1989	$53,000,000	$104,804,511
7	La marche de l'empereur	Warner Independent	6/24/2005	$77,437,223	$95,286,851
8	Beyond and Back	Sunn Classics Pictures	1/1/1978	$23,800,000	$80,248,717
9	Dolphins	MacGillivray Freeman Films	10/20/2000	$54,000,000	$79,046,383
10	Michael Jackson's This Is It	Sony Pictures	10/28/2009	$72,091,016	$75,839,745
11	Mysteries of Egypt	Sony Pictures	7/16/1998	$40,593,286	$68,290,199
12	Deep Sea 3-D	Warner Bros.	3/3/2006	$44,492,773	$51,299,178
13	Magnificent Desolation	IMAX Films	9/23/2005	$40,144,533	$45,666,649
14	earth	Walt Disney Pictures	4/22/2009	$32,011,576	$33,676,177
15	Under the Sea 3-D	Warner Bros.	2/13/2009	$30,459,267	$31,188,168
16	Thrill Ride: The Science of Fun	Sony Pictures Classics	7/11/1997	$18,798,682	$30,241,423
17	Hubble 3D	Warner Bros.	3/19/2010	$30,797,187	$29,998,711
18	Bowling for Columbine	MGM	10/11/2002	$21,576,018	$28,984,507
19	Dirt	American Cinema Releasing	3/1/1979	$9,200,000	$28,919,525
20	An Inconvenient Truth	Paramount Vantage	5/24/2006	$24,146,161	$28,687,070
21	Sicko	Lionsgate	6/22/2007	$24,538,513	$28,131,653
22	NASCAR: The IMAX Experience	Warner Bros.	3/12/2004	$21,550,235	$27,301,286
23	Galapagos	IMAX Films	10/29/1999	$18,079,965	$27,151,928
24	Michael Jordan to the MAX	Giant Screen Films	5/5/2000	$18,642,318	$26,989,189
25	Sea Monsters: A Prehistoric Adventure	National Geographic Entertainment	10/5/2007	$23,746,066	$26,153,606
Complete List

Year by Year Market Share

Year	Movies in Release	Market Share	Gross	Tickets Sold	Inflation- Adjusted Gross	Top-Grossing Movie	Gross that Year
1995	9	1.55%	$81,796,269	18,803,739	$129,369,724	The Living Sea	$64,800,000
1996	6	.16%	$8,923,476	2,018,886	$13,889,936	When We Were Kings	$2,666,118
1997	6	.12%	$7,950,971	1,732,238	$11,917,797	Thrill Ride: The Science of Fun	$2,570,742
1998	12	1.71%	$115,718,746	24,673,506	$169,753,721	Everest	$56,145,919
1999	21	.82%	$60,123,550	11,835,343	$81,427,160	Everest	$18,064,450
2000	37	1.51%	$112,946,062	20,954,744	$144,168,639	Dolphins	$54,000,000
2001	19	.26%	$20,841,339	3,682,216	$25,333,646	Shackleton's Antarctic Adventure	$6,443,686
2002	26	1.08%	$98,926,619	17,026,956	$117,145,457	Space Station	$29,820,971
2003	45	.95%	$89,169,139	14,787,585	$101,738,585	Space Station	$16,352,556
2004	85	2.34%	$217,098,868	34,959,559	$240,521,766	Fahrenheit 9/11	$119,078,393
2005	97	1.74%	$155,673,323	24,286,012	$167,087,763	La marche de l'empereur	$77,413,017
2006	108	1.10%	$101,390,085	15,479,404	$106,498,300	An Inconvenient Truth	$23,814,997
2007	108	.74%	$71,658,525	10,415,486	$71,658,544	Sicko	$24,530,513
2008	125	.89%	$87,974,176	12,252,671	$84,298,376	Sea Monsters: A Prehistoric Adventure	$14,710,283
2009	86	1.82%	$194,238,821	25,898,510	$178,181,749	Michael Jackson's This Is It	$72,091,016
2010	103	.82%	$85,709,112	10,863,009	$74,737,502	Hubble 3D	$20,149,829
2011	135	.76%	$77,917,111	9,788,588	$67,345,485	African Cats	$15,428,747

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