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 | 2015 | Women He's Undressed | $269,394 | $269,394 | |
| 1,002 | 2018 | The World Before Your Feet | $268,646 | $268,646 | |
| 1,003 | 2010 | South of the Border | $268,600 | $198,600 | $70,000 |
| 1,004 | 2008 | Harvard Beats Yale 29-29 | $268,431 | $268,431 | |
| 1,005 | 2011 | Conan O'Brien Can't Stop | $267,965 | $267,965 | |
| 1,006 | 2014 | Corpus Christi | $267,549 | $267,549 | |
| 1,007 | 2010 | Breath Made Visible | $267,281 | $267,281 | |
| 1,008 | 2019 | România neîmblânzită | $267,108 | $267,108 | |
| 1,009 | 2018 | Studio 54 | $266,663 | $199,767 | $66,896 |
| 1,010 | 2023 | Common Ground | $265,904 | $259,959 | $5,945 |
| 1,011 | 2024 | Beyond, ode to the Earth | $265,871 | $265,871 | |
| 1,012 | 2018 | The Final Year | $265,072 | $191,900 | $73,172 |
| 1,013 | 2021 | Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It | $264,626 | $264,626 | |
| 1,014 | 2019 | Dan Carter: A Perfect 10 | $264,617 | $264,617 | |
| 1,015 | 2011 | Phil Ochs: There but for Fortune | $263,723 | $263,723 | |
| 1,016 | 2023 | Squaring the Circle | $263,542 | $111,589 | $151,953 |
| 1,017 | 2022 | Achieui norae jeontaechun (아치의 노래, 정태춘)… | $263,225 | $263,225 | |
| 1,018 | 2004 | Mayor of the Sunset Strip | $262,564 | $257,315 | $5,249 |
| 1,019 | 2019 | Leonardo Cinquecento | $262,446 | $262,446 | |
| 1,020 | 2004 | De fem benspaend | $262,413 | $150,966 | $111,447 |
| 1,021 | 1983 | Nostalghia | $262,008 | $262,008 | |
| 1,022 | 2016 | Mimimalism: A Documentary About the Important T… | $261,865 | $261,865 | |
| 1,023 | 2007 | Steep | $259,840 | $259,840 | |
| 1,024 | 2017 | No Ordinary Sheila | $259,821 | $259,821 | |
| 1,025 | 2017 | Becoming Who I Was | $259,386 | $259,386 | |
| 1,026 | 2010 | Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child | $258,558 | $256,242 | $2,316 |
| 1,027 | 2023 | The Highest of Stakes | $258,482 | $161,313 | $97,169 |
| 1,028 | 2011 | PASSIONE: A Musical Adventure | $258,222 | $258,222 | |
| 1,029 | 2022 | The Automat | $257,371 | $257,371 | |
| 1,030 | 2022 | Serengeti: A Journey to the Heart of Africa | $257,060 | $257,060 | |
| 1,031 | 2022 | Louis | $256,984 | $256,984 | |
| 1,032 | 2014 | Alive Inside | $256,682 | $256,682 | |
| 1,033 | 2020 | American Utopia | $256,600 | $256,600 | |
| 1,034 | 1998 | The Cruise | $255,764 | $255,764 | |
| 1,035 | 2019 | Untouchable | $255,647 | $255,647 | |
| 1,036 | 2017 | Exhibition On Screen: I, Claude Monet | $255,115 | $255,115 | |
| 1,037 | 2019 | One Child Nation | $254,450 | $252,734 | $1,716 |
| 1,038 | 2004 | The Agronomist | $254,346 | $226,189 | $28,157 |
| 1,039 | 2023 | The Last Rider | $254,290 | $147,979 | $106,311 |
| 1,040 | 2022 | The Lost City of Melbourne | $254,263 | $254,263 | |
| 1,041 | 2006 | The War Tapes | $254,190 | $254,190 | |
| 1,042 | 2004 | This Old Cub | $253,531 | $253,531 | |
| 1,043 | 2013 | The Summit | $253,447 | $219,346 | $34,101 |
| 1,044 | 2023 | Exhibition On Screen: Klimt And The Kiss | $253,394 | $253,394 | |
| 1,045 | 2011 | Life in a Day | $252,788 | $252,788 | |
| 1,046 | 2020 | Maledetto Modigliani | $252,410 | $252,410 | |
| 1,047 | 2023 | The Killing of a Journalist | $252,222 | $252,222 | |
| 1,048 | 2012 | Entre les Bras | $251,482 | $251,482 | |
| 1,049 | 2017 | Het doet zo zeer | $251,057 | $251,057 | |
| 1,050 | 2023 | The Essential Church | $250,000 | $250,000 | |
| 1,051 | 2019 | Shusenjo: The Main Battleground of the Comfort … | $249,684 | $249,684 | |
| 1,052 | 2005 | Gay Sex in the 70's | $249,565 | $249,565 | |
| 1,053 | 2009 | Les plages d'Agnès | $249,294 | $239,711 | $9,583 |
| 1,054 | 2015 | Hitting the Apex | $248,637 | $248,637 | |
| 1,055 | 2014 | Mistaken for Strangers | $248,397 | $138,991 | $109,406 |
| 1,056 | 2002 | Sex with Strangers | $247,740 | $247,740 | |
| 1,057 | 2024 | Every Little Thing | $247,550 | $200,679 | $46,871 |
| 1,058 | 2018 | Le Grand Bal | $247,172 | $247,172 | |
| 1,059 | 2014 | The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden | $247,159 | $247,159 | |
| 1,060 | 2008 | Enlighten Up! | $246,649 | $246,649 | |
| 1,061 | 2005 | Watermarks | $245,845 | $245,845 | |
| 1,062 | 2023 | abeojieui maeum (아버지의 마음) | $245,348 | $245,348 | |
| 1,063 | 2010 | Queen of the Sun | $244,995 | $244,995 | |
| 1,064 | 2012 | The Waiting Room | $244,092 | $244,092 | |
| 1,065 | 2002 | Promises | $243,769 | $243,769 | |
| 1,066 | 2005 | Warren Miller's Impact | $243,757 | $243,757 | |
| 1,067 | 2017 | Chavela | $243,176 | $148,666 | $94,510 |
| 1,068 | 2011 | My Perestroika | $242,706 | $242,706 | |
| 1,069 | 2020 | Into America’s Wild | $242,599 | $242,599 | |
| 1,070 | 2020 | Tempos | $242,391 | $242,391 | |
| 1,071 | 1996 | Hype! | $242,021 | $242,021 | |
| 1,072 | 2006 | 49 Up | $241,772 | $241,772 | |
| 1,073 | 2018 | The Heart of Man | $241,657 | $241,657 | |
| 1,074 | 2019 | Samurai Architect Tadao Ando | $241,398 | $241,398 | |
| 1,075 | 1999 | Dancemaker | $240,514 | $240,514 | |
| 1,076 | 2006 | Iraq in Fragments | $240,462 | $204,462 | $36,000 |
| 1,077 | 2015 | I Believe in Miracles | $239,836 | $239,836 | |
| 1,078 | 2022 | Planeta Praha | $239,815 | $239,815 | |
| 1,079 | 2003 | Billabong Odyssey | $239,380 | $155,500 | $83,880 |
| 1,080 | 2019 | Tony | $238,900 | $238,900 | |
| 1,081 | 2019 | Valstybės paslaptis | $237,786 | $237,786 | |
| 1,082 | 1998 | A Place Called Chiapas | $237,779 | $237,779 | |
| 1,083 | 2005 | New York Doll | $237,136 | $219,672 | $17,464 |
| 1,084 | 2023 | El cielo no puede esperar | $237,134 | $237,134 | |
| 1,085 | 2014 | Art and Craft | $237,091 | $237,091 | |
| 1,086 | 2011 | The Interrupters | $236,957 | $236,957 | |
| 1,087 | 2025 | Election Fraud, a Work of God (부정선거, 신의 작품인가)… | $236,552 | $236,552 | |
| 1,088 | 2018 | Kilian Jornet: Path to Everest | $236,322 | $236,322 | |
| 1,089 | 2014 | James Cameron’s Deepsea Challenge 3D | $234,990 | $149,879 | $85,111 |
| 1,090 | 2021 | Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America | $234,372 | $234,298 | $74 |
| 1,091 | 2019 | Varda by Agnes | $233,266 | $160,765 | $72,501 |
| 1,092 | 2016 | Extreme Weather | $233,194 | $233,194 | |
| 1,093 | 2000 | Sex: The Annabel Chong Story | $233,076 | $233,076 | |
| 1,094 | 2024 | It’s Only Life After All | $232,803 | $232,803 | |
| 1,095 | 2017 | The Plan | $232,409 | $232,409 | |
| 1,096 | 2016 | Hockney | $231,717 | $120,745 | $110,972 |
| 1,097 | 2013 | A Place at the Table | $231,378 | $231,378 | |
| 1,098 | 2007 | My Kid Could Paint That | $231,274 | $231,274 | |
| 1,099 | 2015 | The True Cost | $230,362 | $230,362 | |
| 1,100 | 2012 | Crazy Horse | $230,180 | $154,691 | $75,489 |
This table is updated daily to reflect the latest studio reports.
Note: This chart is not adjusted for inflation.