The 100 top-grossing documentaries

what I've seen in bold



1 Fahrenheit 9/11

2 Bowling for Columbine

3 Winged Migration

4 Super Size Me

5 Hoop Dreams

6 Tupac: Resurrection

7 Roger and Me

8 Spellbound

9 Touching the Void (but this one's sitting on the TV thanks to NFLX)

10 The Fog of War

11 Paris is Burning

12 Imagine: John Lennon

13 Step Into Liquid

14 Capturing the Friedmans

15 Crumb

16 Unzipped

17 When We Were Kings

18 Comedian

19 My Architect

20 The Endurance: Shackleton's Antarctic Adventure

21 A Brief History of Time

22 Rivers and Tides

23 The Corporation

24 The Endless Summer II

25 Beyond the Mat

26 Life & Times of Hank Greenberg

27 Control Room

28 Vincent: The Life and Death of Vincent Van Gogh

29 The Kid Stays in the Picture

30 Microcosmos

31 The Celluloid Closet

32 Hearts of Darkness

33 Anne Frank Remembered

34 Brother's Keeper

35 Dogtown and Z-Boys

36 Startup.com

37 The Thin Blue Line

38 American Movie

39 The Eyes of Tammy Faye

40 35 Up

41 The War Room

42 Fast, Cheap and Out of Control

43 Marlene

44 Visions of Light

45 Trembling Before G-d

46 To Be and to Have

47 Listen Up: The Lives of Quincy Jones

48 For All Mankind

49 Lost in La Mancha

50 The Big One

51 Wigstock: The Movie

52 Kurt and Courtney

53 Pumping Iron 2: The Women

54 The Filth and the Fury

55 Road Scholar

56 The Weather Underground

57 Hands on a Hard Body

58 Incident at Oglala

59 Wild Man Blues

60 Sex Is...

61 A Great Day in Harlem

62 Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser

63 The Trials of Henry Kissinger

64 Mr. Death

65 The Wonderful, Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl

66 I Am Trying to Break Your Heart

67 Porn Star: The Legend of Ron Jeremy

68 The Last Days

69 Riding Giants

70 Still, We Believe: The Boston Red Sox Movie

71 Into the Arms of Strangers

72 Blind Spot: Hitler's Secretary

73 Genghis Blues

74 The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years

75 Keep the River on Your Right - A Modern Cannibal Tale

76 Trekkies

77 Grass

78 America's Heart and Soul

79 The Panama Deception

80 Nico-Icon

81 42 Up

82 Bonhoeffer

83 Power and Terror: Noam Chomsky in Our Times

84 Scratch

85 American Pimp

86 Paradise Lost

87 Heavy Petting

88 American Dream

89 Life and Debt

90 Mayor of the Sunset Strip

91 Dancemaker

92 Sex with Strangers

93 Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey

94 Promises

95 Ram Dass: Fierce Grace

96 Weapons of the Spirit

97 This Old Cub

98 Bukowski: Born Into This

99 This So-Called Disaster

100 The Agronomist



Out of #101-182, I've seen five, with one coming up this weekend (Word Wars).