Top Box Office Documentaries of 2010

It's safe to consider 2010 an extremely good year for documentary films. Although production was down slightly (with 6,045 nonfiction films produced in 2010, compared to 6,418 in 2009, according to IMDb), documentaries did very well at the box office, indicating a growing interest in nonfiction among the general moviegoing audience.

Here is a list of the 2010 top twenty documentaries at the box office, as of December 25, 2010:

• Jackass 3D - Distributor: Paramount - Release date: October 13, 2010 - Box Office: $116,896,922
• Oceans - Distributor: Disneynature - Release date: April 22,2010 - Box Office: $19,422,319
• Babies - Distributor: Focus Features Release date: May 07, 2010 - Box Office: $7,320,323
• Waiting For 'Superman' - Distributor: Paramount -Release date: Septeber 24,2010 - Box Office: $6,415,448
• Exit Through The Gift Shop - Distributor: PDA - Release date: April 16, 2010 - Box Office: $3,291,250
• Catfish - Distributor: Relativity - Release date: September 17, 2010 - Box Office: $3,237,343
• Inside Job - Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics - Release date: October 8, 2010 - Box Office: $3,311,773
• Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work - Distributor: IFC - Release date: June 11, 2010 - Box Office: $2,930,687
• Restrepo - Distributor: National Geographic - Release date: June 23, 2010 - Box Office: $1,330,894
• The Tillman Story - Distributor: Weinstein Co. - Release date: August 20, 2010 - Box Office: $802,535
• The Art of The Steal - Distributor: IFC - Release date: February 26, 2010 - Box Office: $544,890
• The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers - Distributor: First Run - Release date: January 29, 2010 - Box Office: $453,650
• A Film Unfinished - Distributor: Oscilloscope - Release date: August 18,2010 - Box Office: $320,486
• Last Train Home - Distributor: Zeitgeist/Kinosmith - Release date: September 03, 2010 - Box Office: $285,848
• Countdown to Zero - Distributor: Magnolia - Release date: July 23, 2010 - Box Office: $272,040
• Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child - Distributor: ArtH - Release date: July 21, 2010 - Box Office: $256,242
• Sweetgrass - Distributor: Cinema Guild - Release date: January 6, 2010 - Box Office: $206,728
• South Of The Border - Distributor: Studio Libre - Release date: June 25, 2010 - Box Office: $199,000
• Winnebago - Distributor: Kino - Release date: July 9,2010 - Box Office: $181,039
• Casino Jack and the United States of Money - Distributor: Magnolia - Release date: May 7, 2010 - Box Office: $176,865