Box Office Records > Worldwide > All Movies > Genres > Top Documentary Worldwide
All Time Worldwide Box Office for Documentary Movies (Rank 1,001-1,100)
See also: Top Documentary Domestic - Top Documentary International
Other Worldwide Genres records: Top Adventure Worldwide - Top Action Worldwide - Top Comedy Worldwide - Top Drama Worldwide - Top Thriller/Suspense Worldwide - Top Horror Worldwide - Top Romantic Comedy Worldwide - Top Musical Worldwide
This chart contains the top 100 Documentary movies based on the cumulative worldwide box office.
See our Documentary Theatrical Market Charts for more overviews regarding the domestic theatrical box office performance of Documentary movies.
| Rank | Released | Movie | Worldwide Box Office |
Domestic Box Office |
International Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1,001 | 2017 | British Museum Presents: Hokusai | $225,122 | $225,122 | |
| 1,002 | 2015 | Jeremy Scott: The People’s Designer | $225,000 | $225,000 | |
| 1,003 | 2015 | Journey to Space 3D | $224,454 | $224,454 | |
| 1,004 | 1979 | ABBA: The Movie | $223,413 | $223,413 | |
| 1,005 | 2003 | Ônibus 174 | $223,016 | $216,158 | $6,858 |
| 1,006 | 2023 | Invisible Summit (看不见的顶峰) | $222,765 | $222,765 | |
| 1,007 | 2015 | Indio, la película | $222,429 | $222,429 | |
| 1,008 | 2000 | The Ballad of Ramblin' Jack | $221,893 | $221,893 | |
| 1,009 | 2017 | All for One | $221,048 | $221,048 | |
| 1,010 | 2013 | Titans of the Ice Age | $221,034 | $221,034 | |
| 1,011 | 2018 | Midnight Oil 1984 | $220,961 | $220,961 | |
| 1,012 | 2002 | The Cockettes | $220,077 | $220,077 | |
| 1,013 | 2021 | Sui Yue Zai Zhe’er | $220,000 | $220,000 | |
| 1,014 | 2016 | She jian shang de xin nian | $220,000 | $220,000 | |
| 1,015 | 2015 | Tiny Giants | $219,774 | $219,774 | |
| 1,016 | 2019 | Le regard de Charles | $219,742 | $219,742 | |
| 1,017 | 2012 | Brooklyn Castle | $219,407 | $219,407 | |
| 1,018 | 1997 | 4 Little Girls | $218,444 | $218,444 | |
| 1,019 | 2019 | Australia: The Wild Top End | $218,433 | $218,433 | |
| 1,020 | 2018 | Dark Money | $217,932 | $217,932 | |
| 1,021 | 2022 | CatVideoFest 2022 | $217,330 | $217,330 | |
| 1,022 | 2015 | Le grand jour | $216,702 | $216,702 | |
| 1,023 | 2008 | Chris and Don: A Love Story | $216,110 | $216,110 | |
| 1,024 | 2006 | Once in a Lifetime: the Extraordinary Story of … | $215,559 | $144,601 | $70,958 |
| 1,025 | 2014 | Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon | $215,245 | $212,701 | $2,544 |
| 1,026 | 1983 | Nostalghia | $214,730 | $214,730 | |
| 1,027 | 2021 | Ailey | $214,325 | $204,512 | $9,813 |
| 1,028 | 2019 | Trabantem tam a zase zpátky | $213,990 | $213,990 | |
| 1,029 | 2023 | Michael Monroe - Dokumenttielokuva | $213,733 | $213,733 | |
| 1,030 | 2005 | Naked Fame | $213,621 | $213,621 | |
| 1,031 | 2021 | Marx può aspettare | $213,348 | $213,348 | |
| 1,032 | 2022 | Franklin | $213,334 | $213,334 | |
| 1,033 | 2012 | Somewhere Between | $213,299 | $213,299 | |
| 1,034 | 2004 | Lightning in a Bottle | $213,091 | $201,574 | $11,517 |
| 1,035 | 2008 | Call+Response | $212,989 | $212,989 | |
| 1,036 | 2015 | The Ground We Won | $212,842 | $212,842 | |
| 1,037 | 2010 | Winston Churchill: Walking with Destiny | $212,601 | $212,601 | |
| 1,038 | 2017 | Exhibition On Screen: Michelangelo: Love and Death | $211,855 | $211,855 | |
| 1,039 | 2020 | Zappa | $211,552 | $15,502 | $196,050 |
| 1,040 | 2017 | City of Ghosts | $210,847 | $128,015 | $82,832 |
| 1,041 | 2012 | The House I Live In | $210,752 | $210,752 | |
| 1,042 | 1998 | Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life | $209,244 | $209,244 | |
| 1,043 | 2017 | Ex Libris: The New York Public Library | $208,993 | $163,364 | $45,629 |
| 1,044 | 2021 | Hakgyo ganeun gil | $208,901 | $208,901 | |
| 1,045 | 2015 | Humpback Whales 3D | $207,473 | $207,473 | |
| 1,046 | 2010 | Sweetgrass | $207,473 | $207,473 | |
| 1,047 | 2023 | River of Freedom | $206,273 | $206,273 | |
| 1,048 | 2018 | Blue Planet II: One Ocean and The Deep | $205,531 | $205,531 | |
| 1,049 | 2023 | Jope Ite | $205,367 | $205,367 | |
| 1,050 | 2017 | Fatima: El Ultimo Misterio | $205,337 | $205,337 | |
| 1,051 | 2005 | The Untold story of Emmett Louis Till | $204,956 | $204,956 | |
| 1,052 | 2013 | Cutie and the Boxer | $204,934 | $199,274 | $5,660 |
| 1,053 | 2019 | Hesburgh | $204,709 | $204,709 | |
| 1,054 | 2024 | It’s Only Life After All | $204,031 | $204,031 | |
| 1,055 | 2005 | Darwin's Nightmare | $203,746 | $203,746 | |
| 1,056 | 2015 | I bambini sanno | $203,674 | $203,674 | |
| 1,057 | 2017 | It Was 50 Years Ago Today! The Beatles: Sgt. Pe… | $203,505 | $203,505 | |
| 1,058 | 2020 | Oeconomia | $203,253 | $203,253 | |
| 1,059 | 2022 | Elizabeth: A Portrait in Part(s) | $203,135 | $203,135 | |
| 1,060 | 2016 | Poveda | $203,124 | $203,124 | |
| 1,061 | 2017 | Exhibition On Screen: Canaletto and the Art of … | $202,473 | $202,473 | |
| 1,062 | 2016 | Jheronimus Bosch, Touched by the Devil | $201,907 | $172,533 | $29,374 |
| 1,063 | 2007 | A Man Named Pearl | $201,603 | $201,603 | |
| 1,064 | 2006 | Deliver Us From Evil | $201,275 | $201,275 | |
| 1,065 | 2005 | Höllentour | $200,927 | $200,927 | |
| 1,066 | 2020 | Colectiv | $200,816 | $200,816 | |
| 1,067 | 2021 | Aalto | $200,577 | $200,577 | |
| 1,068 | 2015 | Merchants of Doubt | $200,562 | $192,362 | $8,200 |
| 1,069 | 2017 | California Typewriter | $200,379 | $200,379 | |
| 1,070 | 2013 | No Place on Earth | $200,238 | $200,238 | |
| 1,071 | 2019 | Suzi Q | $199,774 | $199,774 | |
| 1,072 | 2024 | High & Low — John Galliano | $199,487 | $66,511 | $132,976 |
| 1,073 | 2017 | My Year With Helen | $199,226 | $199,226 | |
| 1,074 | 2017 | Still Tomorrow | $198,798 | $198,798 | |
| 1,075 | 2019 | Daettongryeongeui 7 Sigan | $198,424 | $198,424 | |
| 1,076 | 2015 | pawoolbol | $197,293 | $197,293 | |
| 1,077 | 2020 | Oliver Sacks: His Own Life | $196,926 | $196,926 | |
| 1,078 | 2013 | Wild Africa 3D | $196,637 | $196,637 | |
| 1,079 | 2013 | Lygon Street — Si parla Italiano | $196,633 | $196,633 | |
| 1,080 | 2017 | Go With Your Gut | $196,403 | $196,403 | |
| 1,081 | 2018 | Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-M… | $195,179 | $166,616 | $28,563 |
| 1,082 | 2009 | The Yes Men Fix the World | $195,037 | $195,037 | |
| 1,083 | 2009 | Herb & Dorothy | $194,721 | $194,721 | |
| 1,084 | 2020 | Ottolenghi and the Cakes of Versailles | $194,149 | $4,962 | $189,187 |
| 1,085 | 2019 | Toni Kroos | $193,703 | $193,703 | |
| 1,086 | 2022 | End To End | $193,473 | $193,473 | |
| 1,087 | 2016 | Painting the Modern Garden: Monet to Matisse | $193,326 | $193,326 | |
| 1,088 | 2018 | Be Natural: The Untold Story Of Alice Guy-Blaché | $193,283 | $115,705 | $77,578 |
| 1,089 | 2017 | Take Every Wave: The Life of Laird Hamilton | $192,407 | $176,160 | $16,247 |
| 1,090 | 2020 | MEKY | $192,059 | $192,059 | |
| 1,091 | 2004 | Uncovered: The Whole Truth About the Iraq War | $190,424 | $190,424 | |
| 1,092 | 2022 | Love around the world | $190,303 | $190,303 | |
| 1,093 | 2014 | Code Black | $190,229 | $190,229 | |
| 1,094 | 2017 | Dark States: Heroin Town | $190,115 | $190,115 | |
| 1,095 | 2022 | Burning Ice (冰上时刻) | $190,000 | $190,000 | |
| 1,096 | 2022 | Ren jian shi (人间世) | $190,000 | $190,000 | |
| 1,097 | 2020 | Gipnoz | $189,912 | $189,912 | |
| 1,098 | 2012 | The Green Wave | $189,709 | $189,709 | |
| 1,099 | 2010 | Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer | $189,416 | $189,416 | |
| 1,100 | 2018 | Carnivores | $189,126 | $189,126 |
This table is updated daily to reflect the latest studio reports.
Note: This chart is not adjusted for inflation.