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Top Grossing Documentary Movies in 2011

Rank Title Language Domestic Worldwide
1 One Lucky Elephant
English

UK

$60,457,138 $99,357,138
2 Justin Bieber: Never Say Never
English

UK

$73,013,910 $99,036,827
3 Born to Be Wild
English

UK

$25,978,556 $41,644,475
4 African Cats
English

UK

$15,428,747 $30,857,747
5 Pina
German

DE

$3,524,826 $18,705,853
6 Glee: The 3D Concert Movie
English

UK

$11,862,398 $18,663,238
7 Rebirth
English

UK

$0 $14,066,908
8 The Family Jams
English

UK

$0 $13,867,701
9 The Tiniest Place
Spanish

ES

$143,979 $11,928,909
10 Senna
English

UK

$1,612,430 $10,197,661
11 Cave of Forgotten Dreams
English

UK

$5,304,920 $8,183,347
12 The Big Uneasy
English

UK

$7,204,138 $8,179,416
13 The Big Fix
English

UK

$7,204,138 $8,179,416
14 Buck
English

UK

$4,038,912 $4,448,728
15 TT3D: Closer to the Edge
English

UK

$0 $3,034,200
16 Armadillo
Danish

DK

$14,566 $2,018,685
17 Bill Cunningham New York
English

UK

$1,510,026 $2,007,978
18 I Am
English

UK

$1,591,034 $1,591,034
19 Beats Rhymes & Life: The Travels of a Tribe Called Quest
English

UK

$1,200,326 $1,200,326
20 Page One: A Year Inside the New York Times
English

UK

$1,067,028 $1,077,982
21 Sholem Aleichem: Laughing in the Darkness
English

UK

$906,666 $906,666
22 To Be Heard
English

UK

$0 $813,373
23 Forks Over Knives
English

UK

$739,561 $739,561
24 Tabloid
English

UK

$696,921 $731,925
25 Klitschko
German

DE

$0 $706,471
26 POM Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold
english

UK

$638,476 $698,249
27 Reindeerspotting: Escape from Santaland
Finnish

FI

$0 $654,990
28 The Last Lions
English

UK

$635,325 $635,325
29 Project Nim
English

UK

$411,184 $612,839
30 Life in a Day
English

UK

$252,788 $607,169
31 L'amour fou
French

FR

$312,494 $516,950
32 Pearl Jam Twenty
English

UK

$471,334 $471,334
33 Nostalgia for the Light
Spanish

ES

$163,962 $410,903
34 Into the Abyss
English

UK

$223,880 $393,714
35 Fire in Babylon
English

UK

$0 $385,451
36 Jig
English

UK

$183,790 $363,320
37 El Bulli: Cooking in Progress
Catalan

CA

$237,181 $343,116
38 Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey
English

UK

$304,052 $310,812
39 Khodorkovsky
Russian

RU

$39,522 $294,599
40 The Interrupters
English

UK

$282,448 $286,457
41 The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975
English

UK

$273,749 $280,256
42 Conan O'Brien Can't Stop
English

UK

$267,965 $267,965
43 Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune
English

UK

$263,723 $263,723
44 My Perestroika
Russian

RU

$242,707 $242,707
45 Jane's Journey
English

UK

$27,253 $217,615
46 The Woman with the 5 Elephants
German

DE

$0 $194,282
47 The Man Nobody Knew: In Search of My Father, CIA Spymaster William Colby
English

UK

$183,342 $183,342
48 How to Live Forever
English

UK

$0 $164,720
49 Eames: The Architect & The Painter
English

UK

$153,088 $163,358
50 The Desert of Forbidden Art
English

UK

$0 $158,532

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