....Left-leaning flicks in bold. :)http://www.boxofficemojo.com/genres/chart/?id=documentary.htm1 Fahrenheit 9/11 Lions $119,194,771 2,011 $23,920,637 868 6/23/04 2 March of the Penguins WIP $77,437,223 2,506 $137,492 4 6/24/05
3 Sicko LGF $24,540,079 1,117 $68,969 1 6/22/07
4 An Inconvenient Truth ParC $24,146,161 587 $281,330 4 5/24/06
5 Bowling for Columbine UA $21,576,018 248 $209,148 8 10/11/02 6 Madonna: Truth or Dare Mira. $15,012,935 652 $543,250 51 5/10/91
7 Winged Migration SPC $11,689,053 202 $33,128 1 4/18/03
8 Super Size Me IDP $11,536,423 230 $516,641 41 5/7/04 9 Mad Hot Ballroom ParC $8,117,961 202 $45,348 2 5/13/05
10 Hoop Dreams FL $7,830,611 262 $18,396 3 10/14/94
11 Tupac: Resurrection Par. $7,718,961 804 $4,632,847 801 11/14/03
12 Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed RM $7,396,927 1,052 $2,970,848 1,052 4/18/08
13 Roger and Me WB $6,706,368 265 $80,253 4 12/22/89 14 The Aristocrats Think $6,377,461 234 $243,796 4 7/29/05
15 Spellbound (2003) Think $5,728,581 117 $17,508 1 4/30/03
16 Shine a Light ParV $5,058,442 277 $1,488,081 276 4/4/08
17 Touching the Void IFC $4,593,598 137 $96,973 5 1/23/04
18 The Fog of War SPC $4,198,566 261 $41,449 3 12/19/03
19 Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room Magn. $4,071,700 151 $76,639 3 4/22/05
20 Paris is Burning Mira. $3,779,620 91 $310,127 23 8/9/91
21 Imagine: John Lennon WB $3,753,977 561 $1,412,213 561 10/7/88 22 Step Into Liquid Art. $3,681,803 91 $135,985 5 8/8/03
23 Born Into Brothels Think $3,515,061 127 $14,605 1 12/8/04
24 The Corporation Zeit. $3,493,516 28 $28,671 2 6/4/04 25 Rize Lions $3,336,391 352 $1,574,787 352 6/24/05
26 Grizzly Man Lions $3,178,403 105 $269,131 29 8/12/05
27 Wordplay IFC $3,121,270 154 $32,847 2 6/16/06
28 Capturing the Friedmans Magn. $3,119,113 78 $65,154 3 5/30/03
29 The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill Shad. $3,058,527 67 $36,731 5 2/9/05
30 Crumb Sony $3,041,083 56 $19,859 1 4/21/95
31 Unzipped Mira. $2,875,086 119 $71,275 2 8/4/95
32 When We Were Kings Gram. $2,789,985 92 $12,479 2 10/25/96
33 Comedian Mira. $2,751,988 244 $60,224 4 10/11/02
34 My Architect NYer $2,750,707 39 $37,929 2 11/12/03
35 Freeriders WM $2,750,064 30 $264,548 11 10/20/98
36 Control Room Magn. $2,589,616 74 $27,125 1 5/21/04 37 The Endurance: Shackleton's Antarctic Adventure Cow. $2,453,083 40 $18,931 3 10/5/01
38 Snowriders 2 WM $2,287,639 - n/a - 10/15/97
39 A Brief History of Time Trit $2,279,692 45 $84,025 5 8/21/92 40 Riding Giants SPC $2,276,368 64 $134,400 26 7/9/04
41 Rivers and Tides Roxie $2,200,276 15 $12,256 1 6/26/02
42 The Endless Summer II NL $2,155,385 302 $657,292 302 6/3/94
43 Snowriders WM $2,068,490 - n/a - 10/16/96
44 Beyond the Mat Lions $2,053,648 298 $9,532 1 10/22/99
45 Endless Winter WM $1,966,454 - n/a - 10/20/95
46 Vertical Reality WM $1,951,429 - n/a - 10/19/94
47 The Story of the Weeping Camel Think $1,763,052 55 $21,767 2 6/4/04
48 Koyaanisqatsi IsAl $1,723,872 - n/a - 4/27/83 49 Life & Times of Hank Greenberg Cow. $1,712,385 31 $21,675 1 1/12/00
50 Who Killed the Electric Car? SPC $1,678,874 74 $45,138 8 6/28/06