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Friday, September 5, 2008

Box Office History for Documentary Movies

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Released    Movie Name    1st Weekend    US Gross    Worldwide Gross    Budget   
10/7/1957 Le mystère Picasso $19,143 $50,253 - -
6/28/1971 The Hellstrom Chronicle - - - -
1/1/1974 Hearts and Minds - $28,287 - -
1/1/1978 Beyond and Back - $23,800,000 - -
12/13/1978 The Secret Life of Plants - - - -
2/1/1979 The Glacier Fox - $3,500,000 - -
3/1/1979 Dirt - $9,200,000 - -
6/30/1979 Dolphin $14,000 $14,000 - $170,000
4/10/1981 This is Elvis $429,146 $429,146 - -
4/10/1981 From Mao to Mozart - - - -
3/5/1982 Weavers: Wasn't That a Time - - - -
10/29/1982 It Came From Hollywood $1,095,003 $2,091,037 - -
5/3/1985 Pumping Iron 2: The Women - - - -
11/8/1985 Bring on the Night $1,132,112 $1,675,689 - -
12/31/1985 The Dream is Alive - $125,900,000 - -
1/31/1986 A.K.: The Making of Ran - - - -
1/31/1986 Stripper $14,155 $39,065 - -
10/7/1988 Imagine: John Lennon $1,412,213 $3,753,977 - -
12/20/1989 Roger & Me $84,232 $6,706,368 - $140,000
12/31/1989 To the Limit - $53,000,000 - -
6/3/1994 The Endless Summer 2 $657,292 $2,155,385 - -
10/14/1994 Hoop Dreams - $7,768,371 $11,768,371 $700,000
10/19/1994 Vertical Reality - $1,619,747 - -
4/21/1995 Crumb - $3,041,083 - -
6/9/1995 Wigstock: The Movie $35,563 $686,152 - -
8/4/1995 Unzipped $71,275 $2,833,010 - -
8/25/1995 Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey - $99,459 - -
8/25/1995 The Show $1,482,892 $2,702,000 - -
9/22/1995 Tie-died: Rock 'n Roll's Most Deadicated Fans - $107,528 - -
10/20/1995 Endless Winter $192,700 $1,966,454 - -
12/31/1995 The Living Sea - $64,800,000 - -
2/22/1996 Anne Frank Remembered - $606,713 - -
3/15/1996 The Celluloid Closet $95,047 $1,310,167 - -
10/11/1996 Looking for Richard $190,123 $1,266,417 - -
10/11/1996 Microcosmos - $1,573,842 $6,973,842 -
10/18/1996 Snowriders $158,661 $2,035,470 - -
10/25/1996 When We Were Kings $ $2,666,118 - -
3/5/1997 Rhyme & Reason $853,589 $1,591,687 - -
7/9/1997 4 Little Girls $13,528 $218,444 - -
7/11/1997 Thrill Ride: The Science of Fun $56,951 $18,798,682 $31,279,211 -
10/3/1997 Fast, Cheap & Out of Control $23,665 $848,801 - -
10/15/1997 Snowriders 2 - $2,287,639 - -
1/9/1998 Arguing the World $14,545 $47,044 - -
2/13/1998 Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life $26,101 $209,244 - -
3/6/1998 Everest $364,244 $87,178,599 $125,700,000 -
4/10/1998 The Big One $146,909 $720,074 - -
5/8/1998 Africa's Elephant Kingdom - $13,485,455 - -
7/3/1998 Mark Twain's America 3D $28,668 $2,992,106 - -
7/10/1998 Hands on a Hardbody - $909,650 - -
7/16/1998 Mysteries of Egypt - $40,593,286 $90,000,000 -
9/25/1998 The Brandon Teena Story - $43,506 - -
10/21/1998 Freeriders $264,548 $2,750,064 - -
2/26/1999 Wolves - $5,361,306 - -
3/12/1999 Wildfire: Feel The Heat - $2,378,388 - -
3/23/1999 Extreme - $12,456,958 - -
4/30/1999 Island of the Sharks $19,344 $10,658,756 - -
5/21/1999 Trekkies $125,636 $617,172 - $375,000
6/4/1999 Buena Vista Social Club $127,370 $6,997,620 $22,997,620 -
6/25/1999 And Baby Makes 2 $4,058 $4,058 - -
7/9/1999 Genghis Blues $17,998 $3,599,174 - -
9/17/1999 Get Bruce $19,736 $43,155 - -
10/1/1999 Siegfried & Roy: Masters of the Impossible $24,637 $5,231,283 - -
10/22/1999 Beyond the Mat $9,532 $2,047,570 - $500,000
10/29/1999 Fifty - $3,328,240 - -
10/29/1999 Galapagos - $17,472,613 $25,991,944 -
11/5/1999 American Movie: The Making of Northwestern $20,260 $1,160,426 - -
11/5/1999 Mein Liebster Feind $7,677 $95,958 $574,490 -
11/17/1999 42: Forty Two Up $11,599 $300,680 - -
1/12/2000 The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg $21,675 $1,703,901 - -
2/11/2000 Sex: The Annabel Chong Story $12,489 $233,076 - -
3/17/2000 Black Tar Heroin: The Dark End of the Street $6,851 $6,851 - -
3/29/2000 The Filth and the Fury $13,305 $612,192 - -
4/14/2000 The Girl Next Door $8,412 $769,472 - -
5/5/2000 Michael Jordan to the MAX $578,141 $18,642,318 - $7,000,000
5/26/2000 Better Living Through Circuitry $24,970 $80,739 - -
6/9/2000 The Children of Chabannes $6,430 $33,413 - -
6/9/2000 American Pimp $28,699 $287,724 - -
7/21/2000 The Eyes of Tammy Faye $14,070 $1,029,591 - -
7/21/2000 Benjamin Smoke $6,183 $36,807 - -
8/16/2000 The Ballad of Ramblin' Jack $6,776 $221,893 - -
8/25/2000 Bittersweet Motel $38,454 $380,927 - -
9/6/2000 Backstage $496,226 $1,184,727 - -
9/15/2000 Into the Arms of Strangers $32,037 $374,555 - -
9/29/2000 Barenaked in America $27,714 $45,170 - -
10/6/2000 Live Nude Girls Unite - $84,706 - -
10/8/2000 Ride (2000) - $3,176,650 - -
10/20/2000 Dolphins - $54,000,000 $69,600,000 -
10/20/2000 Calle 54 $8,702 $183,140 - -
11/10/2000 Angel's Ladies - - - -
12/8/2000 The Art of Amália $6,900 $26,609 - -
2/9/2001 Shackleton's Antarctic Adventure - $15,553,324 - -
5/11/2001 Startup.com $16,118 $1,280,975 - -
9/7/2001 Bounce: Behind the Velvet Rope $7,502 $8,285 - -
9/7/2001 Always a Bridesmaid - - - -
10/5/2001 Chop Suey $10,472 $179,914 - -
10/5/2001 The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition $18,931 $2,452,566 - -
10/26/2001 Trembling Before G-D $21,410 $763,755 - -
2/22/2002 Sex with Strangers $11,478 $247,740 - $1,100,000
4/16/2002 Caravaggio - $3,151 - -
4/19/2002 Space Station $439,488 $76,352,983 $107,976,324 -
4/26/2002 Dogtown and Z-Boys $103,355 $1,293,295 $1,600,566 -
5/3/2002 ABC Africa $1,857 $8,886 - -
5/10/2002 ESPN's Ultimate X - The Movie $613,670 $4,197,175 - -
5/10/2002 Hybrid $1,094 $162,605 - $200,000
6/28/2002 Rivers and Tides - $2,200,276 $2,846,816 -
7/19/2002 Ayurveda: Art of Being $1,938 $16,892 $2,066,892 $300,000
7/26/2002 The Kid Stays in the Picture $89,087 $1,434,436 - -
9/27/2002 Biggie and Tupac $16,239 $54,834 - -
9/27/2002 Shanghai Ghetto $10,356 $712,446 - -
10/11/2002 Bowling for Columbine $209,148 $21,576,018 $58,576,018 $3,000,000
10/11/2002 Comedian $60,224 $2,744,253 - -
10/11/2002 Pulse: A Stomp Odyssey - $10,086,514 $15,384,390 -
10/18/2002 Adrenaline Rush: The Science of Risk - $16,933,791 $23,970,431 -
11/15/2002 Standing in the Shadows of Motown $114,442 $1,615,732 - -
1/17/2003 7th Street $6,354 $15,629 - -
1/24/2003 Im Toten Winkel - Hitlers Sekretärin $9,216 $376,886 - -
1/31/2003 Lost in La Mancha $63,303 $727,733 - -
2/11/2003 Ocean Wonderland - - $26,000,000 -
2/19/2003 The Ballad of Bering Strait $1,232 $1,440 - -
2/21/2003 Amandla! A Revolution in Four Part Harmony $14,181 $398,981 - -
3/14/2003 Bugs! - $19,084,280 $29,196,944 -
3/28/2003 Stevie $9,383 $97,044 - -
4/2/2003 Fellini: I’m a Born Liar (Fellini: Sono un Gran Bugiardo) $8,981 $106,080 - -
4/11/2003 Ghosts of the Abyss $1,408,474 $17,093,668 $28,780,668 -
4/18/2003 Winged Migration $33,128 $10,762,178 $32,262,178 -
4/25/2003 The Real Cancun $2,108,796 $3,816,594 - $4,000,000
4/25/2003 A Decade Under the Influence $2,320 $34,514 - -
4/30/2003 Spellbound (2003) $17,508 $5,728,581 $7,457,710 -
5/2/2003 Afghan Stories - - - -
5/9/2003 Only the Strong Survive $22,035 $57,322 - -
5/9/2003 Beyond Vanilla - $27,396 - -
5/16/2003 Cinemania $3,948 $11,305 - -
5/23/2003 Gigantic: A Tale of Two Johns $5,116 $160,621 - -
5/30/2003 Capturing the Friedmans $65,154 $3,117,985 $4,063,057 -
6/6/2003 Weather Underground $13,984 $564,632 - -
6/20/2003 Bonhoeffer $10,099 $296,181 - -
7/25/2003 Balseros - - - -
8/8/2003 Step Into Liquid $135,985 $3,681,803 $4,075,641 -
8/22/2003 Venus Boyz $5,045 $18,401 $54,394 -
8/29/2003 The Backyard - $3,200 - -
9/17/2003 To Be and To Have $20,528 $7,610,471 $22,183,435 -
9/19/2003 Tibet - Cry of the Snow Lion $9,482 $577,841 - -
10/8/2003 Ônibus 174 $8,625 $216,158 - -
10/31/2003 Girlhood $4,845 $37,827 - -
11/7/2003 Billabong Odyssey $54,000 $155,500 - -
11/7/2003 American Storytellers $2,974 $24,082 - -
11/14/2003 Tupac Resurrection $4,632,847 $7,718,961 $7,743,626 -
11/14/2003 My Architect $37,929 $2,822,522 $3,441,648 -
12/19/2003 The Fog of War $41,449 $4,198,566 $5,038,841 -
1/7/2004 Yves St. Laurent $15,385 $97,092 - -
1/9/2004 Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer $16,158 $85,992 $118,973 -
1/16/2004 Cuba: Island of Music $5,071 $8,806 - -
1/17/2004 The Corporation - $1,879,301 $6,379,301 -
1/23/2004 Touching the Void $96,973 $4,593,598 $13,885,802 -
2/6/2004 Hiding and Seeking $6,423 $51,091 - -
2/6/2004 What the #$'! Do We Know $61,033 $10,941,801 - $4,000,000
2/20/2004 Lost Boys of Sudan $7,485 $182,839 - -
3/5/2004 Carlos Castaneda: Enigma of a Sorcerer $4,236 $96,638 $97,447 -
3/12/2004 Power Trip $585 $38,593 - -
3/12/2004 Maestro - $25,315 - -
3/12/2004 NASCAR: The IMAX Experience $1,467,406 $21,550,235 $22,215,235 -
3/19/2004 Divan $3,560 $56,214 - -
3/26/2004 This Old Cub $31,252 $253,531 - -
3/26/2004 Mayor of Sunset Strip $21,722 $257,315 - -
3/26/2004 I'll Sing for You $1,225 $8,798 - -
4/9/2004 Los rubios - - - -
4/21/2004 This So-Called Disaster $8,435 $45,195 - -
4/23/2004 Faster $13,995 $16,265 - -
4/23/2004 The Agronomist $30,855 $226,189 $254,346 -
4/30/2004 People Say I'm Crazy $4,820 $15,679 - -
5/7/2004 Super Size Me $516,641 $11,529,368 $29,529,368 $65,000
5/7/2004 Still, We Believe: The Boston Red Sox Movie $91,388 $396,803 - -
5/14/2004 With All Deliberate Speed $4,920 $4,920 - -
5/19/2004 S-21: The Khmer Rouge Death Machine $7,302 $21,678 - -
5/21/2004 Control Room $27,125 $2,589,616 $2,724,826 -
5/28/2004 Bukowski: Born Into This $27,095 $311,431 - -
5/28/2004 Word Wars $7,559 $76,481 - -
5/28/2004 The Five Obstructions $8,940 $150,966 $262,413 -
6/4/2004 The Story of the Weeping Camel $21,767 $1,751,698 $3,982,419 -
6/11/2004 The Hunting of the President - $376,552 - -
6/11/2004 Imelda $24,077 $200,992 $500,992 -
6/11/2004 Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There $16,524 $353,580 - -
6/18/2004 Saints and Sinners $2,167 $3,826 - -
6/18/2004 Howard Zinn $4,658 $120,250 - -
6/23/2004 Fahrenheit 9/11 $23,920,637 $119,114,517 $222,414,517 $6,000,000
7/2/2004 America's Heart and Soul $134,939 $314,000 - -
7/9/2004 Riding Giants $134,400 $2,276,368 $3,216,111 $2,600,000
7/9/2004 Metallica: Some Kind of Monster $46,359 $1,222,708 $1,929,585 -
7/14/2004 Let's Get Frank $3,465 $9,386 - -
7/16/2004 Freestyle: The Art of Rhyme $4,842 $11,255 - -
7/23/2004 Orwell Rolls in His Grave $6,059 $19,257 - -
7/30/2004 Proteus - $62,673 - -
8/6/2004 Outfoxed - Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism $78,054 $405,900 - -
8/13/2004 Tom Dowd and the Language of Music $16,522 $40,238 - -
8/13/2004 Uncovered: The Whole Truth About the Iraq War - $190,424 - -
8/20/2004 Bush's Brain $11,927 $176,610 - -
8/20/2004 End of the Century: The Story of the Ramones $18,422 $391,950 - -
8/20/2004 The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg $1,475 $2,668 - -
8/27/2004 Brothers in Arms $658 $3,270 - -
8/27/2004 Bright Leaves $4,485 $77,888 - -
9/8/2004 A Letter to True $4,395 $13,835 - -
9/17/2004 Incident at Loch Ness $13,313 $36,830 - -
9/24/2004 Yes Men $24,373 $198,975 $233,975 -
9/24/2004 Moog $2,227 $2,227 - -
10/1/2004 Celsius 41.11: The Temperature at Which the Brain... Begins to Die - - - -
10/1/2004 Tying the Knot $24,517 $37,464 - -
10/1/2004 Going Upriver: The Long War of John Kerry $279,219 $613,252 - -
10/1/2004 In the Face of Evil - $110,577 - -
10/1/2004 Dig $20,437 $127,067 $195,767 -
10/6/2004 Tarnation $12,740 $592,014 $1,162,014 $218
10/22/2004 Short Cut to Nirvana: Kumbh Mela $3,263 $381,225 - $200,000
10/22/2004 Lightning in a Bottle $5,300 $201,574 - -
10/29/2004 Voices From Iraq $30,634 $57,102 - -
11/5/2004 Fade to Black $449,331 $728,802 - -
11/5/2004 Beyond the Gates of Splendor $36,412 $36,412 - -
11/5/2004 Still, the Children are Here $2,210 $2,210 - -
11/10/2004 Overnight - - $15,577 -
11/24/2004 Paperclips $21,148 $1,121,744 - -
11/26/2004 Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst $22,444 $101,439 - -
12/3/2004 Jesus, You Know $604 $604 - -
12/3/2004 Game Over: Kasparov and the Machine - - - -
12/3/2004 WMD: Weapons of Mass Deception $4,216 $27,301 - -
12/8/2004 Born Into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kids $10,580 $3,430,117 - -
12/24/2004 In the Realms of the Unreal $15,477 $413,708 - -
1/19/2005 With God on Our Side $563 $1,806 - -
1/21/2005 Two by Scorsese $3,845 $3,845 - -
1/21/2005 Watermarks $4,837 $245,845 - -
1/28/2005 Aliens of the Deep $479,368 $8,968,684 $12,765,684 -
1/28/2005 Sharks 3D - $8,500,000 $14,000,000 -
1/28/2005 Peace, Propaganda and the Promised Land $1,735 $4,930 - $70,000
2/4/2005 The Nomi Song $14,510 $74,216 - -
2/9/2005 The Letter: An American Town and the 'Somali Invasion' $789 $1,058 - -
2/11/2005 Inside Deep Throat $88,709 $691,880 - $2,000,000
2/11/2005 The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill $36,731 $3,058,527 $3,218,709 -
2/18/2005 Naked Fame $2,837 $213,621 - -
2/18/2005 Mystery of the Nile - - - -
2/25/2005 Sunset Story - $8,802 - -
3/4/2005 Gunner Palace $63,520 $607,502 - -
3/23/2005 Mondovino $9,840 $209,618 $356,398 -
3/25/2005 Lipstick & Dynamite $4,046 $26,073 - -
4/1/2005 Dust to Glory $15,757 $639,990 - -
4/8/2005 Wild Safari 3D - $16,620,705 $32,446,225 -
4/15/2005 The Year of Yao $27,823 $34,699 - -
4/15/2005 Voices in Wartime $10,500 $20,702 - -
4/22/2005 Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room $76,639 $4,071,700 $4,854,164 -
4/22/2005 Music from the Inside Out $13,444 $136,594 - -
5/6/2005 Writer of O $2,245 $8,127 - -
5/6/2005 Up For Grabs $1,881 $13,931 - -
5/13/2005 Shake Hands with the Devil: The Journey of Romeo Dallaire $1,848 $68,249 - -
5/13/2005 Tell Them Who You Are $4,060 $39,075 - -
5/13/2005 Mad Hot Ballroom $45,348 $8,117,961 $9,079,042 $500,000
5/20/2005 Stolen Childhoods $2,996 $2,996 - -
5/27/2005 A League of Ordinary Gentlemen $3,600 $18,326 - -
5/27/2005 Genesis $4,891 $16,413 - -
6/3/2005 Deep Blue $8,373 $129,854 $19,329,854 -
6/3/2005 Rock School $28,136 $58,241 $75,188 -
6/10/2005 McLibel $1,821 $4,337 - -
6/24/2005 Rize $1,574,787 $3,278,611 $4,462,763 $700,000
6/24/2005 La marche de l'empereur $137,492 $77,437,223 $129,437,223 $3,400,000
6/24/2005 The Last Mogul: Life and Times of Lew Wasserman $4,965 $15,655 - -
6/29/2005 A Decent Factory $1,500 $6,395 - -
7/1/2005 Twist of Faith $2,085 $8,129 - -
7/8/2005 Murderball $57,286 $1,531,154 $1,722,277 $350,000
7/13/2005 Searching for Wrong-Eyed Jesus $4,095 $79,916 - -
7/13/2005 Return to the Land of Wonders $357 $1,338 - $5,000
7/22/2005 Monumental: David Broners Fight for Wild America $842 $1,430 - -
7/22/2005 Making Grace $456 $1,496 - -
7/22/2005 This Divided State - $3,724 - -
7/27/2005 The 3 Rooms of Melancholia $5,025 $16,080 - -
7/29/2005 The Last Dispatch $2,554 $20,684 - -
8/3/2005 Darwin's Nightmare $8,072 $203,746 - -
8/5/2005 My Date With Drew $85,222 $181,041 - $1,100
8/12/2005 A State of Mind $5,515 $41,468 - -
8/12/2005 Das Goebbels-Experiment $6,769 $47,211 - -
8/12/2005 Grizzly Man $269,131 $3,178,403 $3,550,032 -
8/19/2005 Reel Paradise $3,100 $31,235 - -
8/19/2005 The Untold story of Emmett Till $8,230 $204,956 - -
8/26/2005 Wall $4,015 $13,913 - -
9/2/2005 William Eggleston in the Real World $6,820 $44,435 - -
9/7/2005 Touch the Sound $8,435 $176,051 - -
9/9/2005 Answering the Call: Ground Zero's Volunteers - - - -
9/14/2005 The Future of Food $8,721 $81,280 - -
9/16/2005 One Bright Shining Moment $2,876 $15,504 - -
9/23/2005 Occupation: Dreamland $8,018 $8,018 - -
9/23/2005 Magnificent Desolation $503,253 $25,653,561 $30,866,148 -
10/7/2005 Sacred Stage $3,724 $4,410 - -
10/7/2005 The Aggressives $3,769 $3,769 - -
10/21/2005 Three of Hearts $4,482 $21,429 - -
10/21/2005 The Optimists $2,377 $2,377 - -
10/21/2005 Congo: White King, Red Rubber, Black Death $3,238 $3,238 - -
10/21/2005 Emmanuel's Gift $14,642 $23,578 - -
10/21/2005 After Innocence $10,194 $114,264 - -
10/21/2005 Protocols of Zion $21,733 $178,875 - -
10/28/2005 New York Doll $17,583 $219,672 - -
10/28/2005 Ballets Russes $12,230 $815,848 $1,188,468 -
11/4/2005 Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Prices - - - -
11/4/2005 Gay Sex in the 70's $17,357 $249,565 - -
11/9/2005 Swenkas $2,790 $3,875 - -
11/18/2005 Zizek! $7,062 $20,117 - -
11/23/2005 39 Pounds of Love $4,217 $28,125 - -
11/24/2005 Aristide and the Endless Revolution $2,552 $6,998 - -
12/2/2005 Little Man (2005) - - - -
12/2/2005 The Boys of Baraka $9,705 $323,860 - -
12/2/2005 Be Here to Love Me: A Film About Townes van Zandt $9,098 $129,424 - -
12/2/2005 First Descent $438,615 $739,690 - -
12/16/2005 The Grace Lee Project $4,225 $5,965 - -
1/13/2006 Henri Cartier-Bresson - Biographie eines Blicks $7,235 $25,347 - -
1/20/2006 Why We Fight $53,571 $1,880,863 - -
1/27/2006 Roving Mars $412,337 $9,568,730 $10,409,730 -
2/3/2006 Who Gets to Call It Art? $7,520 $27,344 - -
2/3/2006 What the Bleep?: Down the Rabbit Hole $24,195 $135,706 - -
2/3/2006 Trudell $1,592 $26,756 - -
2/3/2006 Blossoms of Fire $2,390 $2,390 - -
2/10/2006 Through the Fire $14,769 $14,769 - -
2/10/2006 Cowboy Del Amor $4,438