ST Alpha - "Since we had fun with movie trivia the other day...Can anyone name the Top 10 highest grossing documentaries? -- nm" (Reading a Post)

SlickerTalk
Search Archives
The Leaderboard
The FAQ

Login
Create Account

Search Dr. S. Talk
TT/ST Wiki
How Well Do You Know ...

RSS Feed

Hosting by DigitalOcean

Support ST on Ko-Fi

Down to Post

Backboards:

Posts: 153

Since we had fun with movie trivia the other day...Can anyone name the Top 10 highest grossing documentaries? -- nm

Posted by MDH Aug 6 '18, 09:40

(No message)

Responses:

I'll spoil the last #6 "Earth" $32M -- nm - MDH Aug 6, 10:04 1
- Ah that explains it. I am watching Planet Earth right now (BBC) so I thought that was also a BBC production -- nm - Bacon Aug 6, 10:05
I guess Sicko made more than I remember -- nm* - Tim Aug 6, 10:02 2
- #10 $25M -- nm - MDH Aug 6, 10:03
- (But I guess it makes sense as the follow up to Fahrenheit 9/11) -- nm - Tim Aug 6, 10:03
Obama's America. -- nm - Inigo Aug 6, 09:59 1
- #5 $33M -- nm - MDH Aug 6, 10:00
Reminder: 1 Nature one left, and 2 political - one "left" and one "right" -- nm - MDH Aug 6, 09:59 4
- The "left" one is by a Director that has multiple mentioned here. -- nm - MDH Aug 6, 10:01 1
  - Sicko? -- nm - crash davis Aug 6, 10:03
- Oh god, one of D’Souza’s con jobs, Obama’s America or something? -- nm - Tim Aug 6, 10:00 1
  - In addition to Obama mentioned above, America is #20 $14M, and Hillary #24 $13M -- nm - MDH Aug 6, 10:01
March of the penguins -- nm - Beaker Aug 6, 09:57 2
- KILLFILE IS OUT OF CONTROL! -- nm - groiny Aug 6, 09:58
- #2 (guessed below) -- nm - MDH Aug 6, 09:57
I guess biopics don't count as documentaries ... otherwise I'd say The Doors, The Aviator, Titanic, etc ... -- nm - Beryllium Aug 6, 09:54
Hints: One more music doc in the Top 10, 2 nature ones, and 2 "political ones" -- nm - MDH Aug 6, 09:49 31
- Katy Perry? -- nm - groiny Aug 6, 09:54 2
  - Ding ding ding - #9 $25M -- nm - MDH Aug 6, 09:54 1
    - Left Shark gave it 2 fins up! -- nm - groiny Aug 6, 09:56
- This is It (the Michael Jackson doc). -- nm - pmb Aug 6, 09:54 6
  - How about the Hannah Montana Concert movie. -- nm - pmb Aug 6, 09:55 5
    - Not considered a documentary - since she was "Hannah Montana" -- nm - MDH Aug 6, 09:56 4
      - But it was just a concert film (there was a separate Hannah Montana movie). -- nm - pmb Aug 6, 09:58 3
        
        I don't get how that's not a documentary. Other concert films were. -- nm - pmb Aug 6, 10:16
        
        Hence not a documentary -- nm - MDH Aug 6, 09:58 1
        
        Further note that IMDB calls it a documentary. -- (link) - pmb Aug 6, 10:17
- March of the Penguins. -- nm - pmb Aug 6, 09:53
- That one with the lemmings -- nm - zork Aug 6, 09:52 2
  - I already mentioned the One Direction documentary. -- nm - Mop Aug 6, 09:53 1
    - This is funny -- nm - zork Aug 6, 09:54
- African Cats -- nm - Bacon Aug 6, 09:51 8
  - #17 $15M (right studio though!) -- nm - MDH Aug 6, 09:53 7
    - Chimps -- nm - Bacon Aug 6, 09:54 6
      - #7 $29M (one more left from the same studio) -- nm - MDH Aug 6, 09:54 1
        
        Was March of the Penguins Disney? -- nm - Bacon Aug 6, 09:56
      - Bears -- nm - Bacon Aug 6, 09:54 3
        
        #15 $18M - think broader -- nm - MDH Aug 6, 09:56 2
        
        Nature -- nm - Bacon Aug 6, 09:57 1
        
        Nature is the name of the studio - DisneyNature -- nm - MDH Aug 6, 09:57
- The music one is just killing me. How quickly people forget. -- nm - David Aug 6, 09:50 4
  - Woodstock -- nm - Bacon Aug 6, 09:53 2
    - Movie admission was like 50¢ then -- nm - zork Aug 6, 09:54 1
      - but it had boobs in it -- nm - Bacon Aug 6, 09:54
  - Mama Mia 2: Mia Harder -- nm - Beryllium Aug 6, 09:52
- Also, the Mr. Rogers doc just misses at #13 $21M -- nm - MDH Aug 6, 09:50
- Amy -- nm - Mop Aug 6, 09:50 1
  - #29 $8M -- nm - MDH Aug 6, 09:51
Mac & Me -- nm - Beryllium Aug 6, 09:48 1
- Heh -- nm - MDH Aug 6, 09:49
Everest (If the IMAX ones are included) -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Aug 6, 09:47
This is it -- nm - zork Aug 6, 09:45 1
- #4 $72M -- nm - MDH Aug 6, 09:45
The One Direction one. -- nm - Mop Aug 6, 09:44 1
- #8 $29M (there's a few music docs on the list, but the grosses fell way off on these) -- nm - MDH Aug 6, 09:45
That Justin Bieber one. -- nm - Spawn: I AM Blood Feud Aug 6, 09:44 1
- #3 $73M -- nm - MDH Aug 6, 09:44
Roger & Me -- nm - Mop Aug 6, 09:43 1
- #37 $6M -- nm* - MDH Aug 6, 09:43
Fahrenheit 9/11 -- nm - Spawn: I AM Blood Feud Aug 6, 09:43 1
- #1 $119M (by a large margin) -- nm - MDH Aug 6, 09:43
Blackfish -- nm - decline Aug 6, 09:42 3
- #106 $2M -- nm - MDH Aug 6, 09:43 2
  - wow (I thought it did way better than that) -- nm - decline Aug 6, 09:43 1
    - CNN bought the rights and aired in on TV -- nm - MDH Aug 6, 09:44
An inconvenient truth -- nm - decline Aug 6, 09:42 1
- #11 $24M -- nm - MDH Aug 6, 09:42
Bowling for Columbine, March of the Penguins -- nm - con_carne Aug 6, 09:41 1
- #12 $22M, #2 $77M -- nm - MDH Aug 6, 09:42
Super size me? -- nm - Amoxy Aug 6, 09:41 1
- #27 $11M -- nm - MDH Aug 6, 09:41

Post a message top

Replies are disabled on threads older than 7 days.