Box Office Records > Domestic > All Movies > Genres > Top Documentary Domestic
All Time Domestic Box Office for Documentary Movies (Rank 401-500)
See also: Top Documentary International - Top Documentary Worldwide - Top Documentary Weekend Domestic
Other Domestic Genres records: Top Adventure Domestic - Top Action Domestic - Top Comedy Domestic - Top Drama Domestic - Top Thriller/Suspense Domestic - Top Horror Domestic - Top Romantic Comedy Domestic - Top Musical Domestic
This chart contains the top 100 Documentary movies based on the cumulative domestic box office.
See our Documentary Theatrical Market Charts for more overviews regarding the domestic theatrical box office performance of Documentary movies.
| Rank | Released | Movie | Domestic Box Office |
International Box Office |
Worldwide Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 401 | 1981 | This is Elvis | $429,146 | $429,146 | |
| 402 | 2007 | The Singing Revolution | $426,855 | $426,855 | |
| 403 | 2015 | Listen to Me Marlon | $426,130 | $91,663 | $517,793 |
| 404 | 2019 | Hail Satan? | $424,284 | $43,011 | $467,295 |
| 405 | 2014 | She's Beautiful When She's Angry | $423,143 | $423,143 | |
| 406 | 2013 | Sound City | $422,853 | $98,328 | $521,181 |
| 407 | 2015 | Heart of a Dog | $420,813 | $29,609 | $450,422 |
| 408 | 1999 | The Last Days | $419,762 | $419,762 | |
| 409 | 2001 | Porn Star: The Legend of Ron Jeremy | $419,597 | $419,597 | |
| 410 | 2013 | Watermark | $417,215 | $417,215 | |
| 411 | 2004 | In the Realms of the Unreal | $413,708 | $413,708 | |
| 412 | 2016 | Embrace | $412,340 | $1,199,252 | $1,611,592 |
| 413 | 2011 | Project Nim | $411,184 | $1,172,349 | $1,583,533 |
| 414 | 2015 | Janis: Little Girl Blue | $410,465 | $1,994,001 | $2,404,466 |
| 415 | 2015 | Unbranded | $410,185 | $230,609 | $640,794 |
| 416 | 2010 | I'm Still Here | $408,983 | $328,662 | $737,645 |
| 417 | 2019 | Die Unsichtbaren | $408,397 | $231,729 | $640,126 |
| 418 | 2017 | Chasing Trane: The John Coltrane Documentary | $406,284 | $406,284 | |
| 419 | 2015 | The Hunting Ground | $405,917 | $5,198 | $411,115 |
| 420 | 2004 | Outfoxed - Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism | $405,900 | $43,587 | $449,487 |
| 421 | 2022 | Facing Nolan | $405,797 | $405,797 | |
| 422 | 2003 | Amandla! A Revolution in Four Part Harmony | $405,331 | $70,592 | $475,923 |
| 423 | 2018 | The Gospel According to Andre | $400,713 | $54,409 | $455,122 |
| 424 | 2018 | Leaning into the Wind | $400,530 | $51,842 | $452,372 |
| 425 | 2021 | Julia | $399,811 | $95,185 | $494,996 |
| 426 | 2022 | Superspreader | $399,370 | $399,370 | |
| 427 | 2004 | Still, We Believe: The Boston Red Sox Movie | $396,803 | $396,803 | |
| 428 | 2007 | Manufactured Landscapes | $395,623 | $395,623 | |
| 429 | 2004 | End of the Century: The Story of the Ramones | $391,950 | $86,859 | $478,809 |
| 430 | 2011 | Turtle: The Incredible Journey | $391,942 | $966,898 | $1,358,840 |
| 431 | 2012 | Detropia | $390,024 | $146 | $390,170 |
| 432 | 2008 | Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden? | $384,955 | $384,955 | |
| 433 | 2000 | Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kind… | $382,807 | $88,145 | $470,952 |
| 434 | 2013 | The Armstrong Lie | $381,703 | $262,182 | $643,885 |
| 435 | 2004 | Short Cut to Nirvana: Kumbh Mela | $381,225 | $58,426 | $439,651 |
| 436 | 2000 | Bittersweet Motel | $380,927 | $380,927 | |
| 437 | 2003 | Im Toten Winkel - Hitlers Sekretärin | $376,886 | $376,886 | |
| 438 | 2004 | The Hunting of the President | $376,552 | $28,920 | $405,472 |
| 439 | 2018 | Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami | $375,208 | $363,429 | $738,637 |
| 440 | 2013 | Dirty Wars | $371,245 | $43,314 | $414,559 |
| 441 | 2013 | Hava Nagila: The Movie | $368,724 | $368,724 | |
| 442 | 2013 | When Comedy Went to School | $365,548 | $365,548 | |
| 443 | 2014 | Glen Campbell: I'll Be Me | $365,522 | $365,522 | |
| 444 | 2018 | Mountain | $364,429 | $633,224 | $997,653 |
| 445 | 1999 | The Source | $362,357 | $1,594,465 | $1,956,822 |
| 446 | 2018 | Kusama: Infinity | $360,931 | $180,290 | $541,221 |
| 447 | 2016 | Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words | $355,074 | $10,466 | $365,540 |
| 448 | 2004 | Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who We… | $353,580 | $38,138 | $391,718 |
| 449 | 2017 | Long Strange Trip: The Untold Story of the Grat… | $351,957 | $351,957 | |
| 450 | 2013 | Koch | $342,941 | $342,941 | |
| 451 | 2021 | Flee | $339,754 | $1,722,419 | $2,062,173 |
| 452 | 2011 | Happy People: A Year in the Taiga | $338,987 | $338,987 | |
| 453 | 2010 | Kings of Pastry | $336,386 | $336,386 | |
| 454 | 2017 | Letters from Baghdad | $336,223 | $143,428 | $479,651 |
| 455 | 2022 | Turn Every Page: The Adventures of Robert Caro … | $335,417 | $335,417 | |
| 456 | 2006 | The Devil and Daniel Johnston | $334,450 | $118,887 | $453,337 |
| 457 | 2015 | Ballet 422 | $333,554 | $333,554 | |
| 458 | 2014 | Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me | $330,083 | $330,083 | |
| 459 | 2023 | Wild Life | $325,936 | $325,936 | |
| 460 | 2012 | The Central Park Five | $325,653 | $325,653 | |
| 461 | 2005 | The Boys of Baraka | $323,860 | $323,860 | |
| 462 | 2015 | Taxi | $321,642 | $10,913,305 | $11,234,947 |
| 463 | 2010 | A Film Unfinished | $320,486 | $320,486 | |
| 464 | 2022 | Meet Me in the Bathroom | $319,880 | $230,139 | $550,019 |
| 465 | 2022 | Waterman | $316,848 | $19,991 | $336,839 |
| 466 | 2004 | America's Heart and Soul | $314,000 | $314,000 | |
| 467 | 2017 | Citizen Jane: Battle for the City | $313,411 | $34,944 | $348,355 |
| 468 | 2017 | Obit | $312,777 | $312,777 | |
| 469 | 2007 | For the Bible Tells Me So | $312,751 | $5,833 | $318,584 |
| 470 | 2014 | The Hornet’s Nest | $312,706 | $312,706 | |
| 471 | 2011 | L'Amour Fou | $312,494 | $774,086 | $1,086,580 |
| 472 | 2004 | Bukowski: Born Into This | $311,431 | $17,467 | $328,898 |
| 473 | 2012 | West of Memphis | $309,864 | $97,653 | $407,517 |
| 474 | 2021 | Final Account | $308,976 | $44,108 | $353,084 |
| 475 | 2008 | Bigger, Stronger, Faster* | $308,575 | $118 | $308,693 |
| 476 | 2006 | This Film is Not Yet Rated | $306,845 | $34,923 | $341,768 |
| 477 | 2012 | Whores’ Glory | $306,151 | $324,390 | $630,541 |
| 478 | 2015 | Hitchcock/Truffaut | $304,899 | $352,132 | $657,031 |
| 479 | 2011 | Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey | $303,791 | $28,644 | $332,435 |
| 480 | 2007 | God Grew Tired of Us: The Story of Lost Boys of… | $301,447 | $301,447 | |
| 481 | 2019 | Aquarela | $301,429 | $385,223 | $686,652 |
| 482 | 2007 | Crazy Love | $301,027 | $301,027 | |
| 483 | 2014 | I Am Eleven | $300,968 | $300,968 | |
| 484 | 1999 | 42 Up | $300,680 | $300,680 | |
| 485 | 2019 | Ask Dr. Ruth | $297,195 | $21,895 | $319,090 |
| 486 | 2003 | Bonhoeffer | $296,181 | $296,181 | |
| 487 | 2002 | Power & Terror: Noam Chomsky in Our Times | $291,789 | $291,789 | |
| 488 | 2002 | Scratch | $289,885 | $289,885 | |
| 489 | 2014 | Antarctica: A Year on Ice | $288,757 | $288,757 | |
| 490 | 2015 | Above and Beyond | $288,751 | $288,751 | |
| 491 | 2012 | Something From Nothing: The Art of Rap | $288,738 | $45,388 | $334,126 |
| 492 | 2010 | Last Train Home | $288,328 | $288,328 | |
| 493 | 2000 | American Pimp | $287,724 | $287,724 | |
| 494 | 2009 | Outrage | $287,198 | $287,198 | |
| 495 | 2019 | Free Spirit | $284,229 | $24,711 | $308,940 |
| 496 | 2020 | Created Equal: Clarence Thomas in His Own Words | $282,149 | $282,149 | |
| 497 | 2019 | Mike Wallace is Here | $281,245 | $281,245 | |
| 498 | 2006 | American Hardcore | $279,665 | $8,322 | $287,987 |
| 499 | 2014 | 20,000 Days on Earth | $279,558 | $1,700,215 | $1,979,773 |
| 500 | 2018 | Science Fair | $278,350 | $1,141 | $279,491 |
The Domestic Market is defined as the North American movie territory (consisting of the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico and Guam).
This table is updated daily to reflect the latest studio reports.
Note: This chart is not adjusted for inflation.