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

Top Grossing Movies 1977 - 2010, 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	$265,985,918
2	Fahrenheit 9/11	Lionsgate	6/23/2004	$119,114,517	$143,814,488
3	Everest	MacGillivray Freeman Films	3/6/1998	$87,178,599	$119,568,315
4	The Living Sea	MacGillivray Freeman Films	12/31/1995	$64,800,000	$111,724,140
5	To the Limit	MacGillivray Freeman Films	12/31/1989	$53,000,000	$99,624,060
6	Space Station	IMAX Films	4/19/2002	$80,838,925	$97,642,860
7	March of the Penguins	Warner Independent	6/24/2005	$77,437,223	$90,576,855
8	Beyond and Back		1/1/1978	$23,800,000	$76,282,050
9	Dolphins	MacGillivray Freeman Films	10/20/2000	$54,000,000	$75,139,148
10	Michael Jackson's This Is It	Sony Pictures	10/28/2009	$71,844,424	$71,844,428
11	Mysteries of Egypt	Sony Pictures	7/16/1998	$40,593,286	$64,914,638
12	Deep Sea 3-D	Warner Bros.	3/3/2006	$42,843,438	$47,212,620
13	Magnificent Desolation	IMAX Films	9/23/2005	$31,792,745	$43,409,363
14	earth	Buena Vista	4/22/2009	$32,011,576	$32,011,575
15	Thrill Ride: The Science of Fun	Sony Pictures Classics	7/11/1997	$18,798,682	$28,746,600
16	Bowling for Columbine	MGM	10/11/2002	$21,576,018	$27,551,813
17	Dirt		3/1/1979	$9,200,000	$27,490,043
18	An Inconvenient Truth	Paramount Vantage	5/24/2006	$24,146,161	$27,269,078
19	Sicko	Lionsgate	6/22/2007	$24,538,513	$26,741,115
20	NASCAR: The IMAX Experience	Warner Bros.	3/12/2004	$21,550,235	$25,951,793
21	Galapagos	IMAX Films	10/29/1999	$17,654,682	$25,809,818
22	Michael Jordan to the MAX	Giant Screen Films	5/5/2000	$18,642,318	$25,655,123
23	Sea Monsters: A Prehistoric Adventure	National Geographic Entertainment	10/5/2007	$22,816,920	$23,985,495
24	Bugs!	SK Films	3/14/2003	$19,084,280	$22,906,313
25	Adrenaline Rush: The Science of Risk	Giant Screen Films	10/18/2002	$16,933,791	$21,859,455
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	25	1.07%	$98,604,667	16,971,543	$116,764,216	Space Station	$29,820,971
2003	44	.93%	$86,914,139	14,413,621	$99,165,712	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	March of the Penguins	$77,413,017
2006	106	1.09%	$101,293,396	15,464,642	$106,396,737	An Inconvenient Truth	$23,814,997
2007	108	.74%	$71,655,352	10,415,024	$71,655,365	Sicko	$24,530,513
2008	125	.88%	$87,932,344	12,246,845	$84,258,294	Sea Monsters: A Prehistoric Adventure	$14,710,283
2009	80	1.79%	$192,830,081	25,710,677	$176,889,458	Michael Jackson's This Is It	$71,844,424
2010	13	.11%	$963,611	128,482	$883,956	Under the Sea 3-D	$433,919

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