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Top Grossing Documentary Movies in 2013

Rank Title Language Domestic Worldwide
1 Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa
English

UK

$102,003,019 $151,826,547
2 Walking with Dinosaurs
English

UK

$36,076,121 $126,546,518
3 The Source Family
English

UK

$36,918,811 $78,418,811
4 One Direction: This Is Us
English

UK

$29,136,885 $74,373,188
5 The Last Gladiators
English

UK

$12,050,299 $48,330,757
6 Kevin Hart: Let Me Explain
English

UK

$32,244,051 $32,318,051
7 We the Parents
English

UK

$0 $26,433,651
8 The Other Side of the Ice
English

UK

$9,572 $25,109,572
9 Journey to the South Pacific
English

UK

$7,653,913 $14,994,876
10 Justin Bieber's Believe
English

UK

$6,206,566 $10,980,157
11 Hawking
English

UK

$0 $10,368,295
12 Jerusalem
English

UK

$8,020,721 $9,279,456
13 The Fifth Estate
English

UK

$3,255,008 $9,058,564
14 20 Feet from Stardom
English

UK

$4,946,445 $5,839,368
15 Leviathan
Russian

RU

$1,092,800 $4,439,481
16 Welcome to the Machine
English

UK

$9,747 $3,926,386
17 Murph: The Protector
English

UK

$2,463 $3,399,790
18 Unmade in China
English

UK

$0 $3,386,464
19 Stories We Tell
English

UK

$1,600,145 $2,641,053
20 The Gatekeepers
Hebrew

IL

$2,415,727 $2,573,616
21 Blackfish
English

UK

$2,073,582 $2,303,417
22 Girl Rising
English

UK

$1,727,259 $1,727,259
23 Tim's Vermeer
English

UK

$1,671,377 $1,686,917
24 More Than Honey
German

DE

$79,772 $1,605,888
25 Aroused
English

UK

$0 $1,252,924
26 Inequality for All
English

UK

$1,205,273 $1,205,273
27 Stuck
English

UK

$81,071 $977,671
28 Generation Iron
English

UK

$849,521 $901,649
29 The Stone Roses: Made of Stone
English

UK

$0 $784,111
30 The Act of Killing
Indonesian

ID

$486,919 $726,324
31 Muscle Shoals
English

UK

$696,241 $709,415
32 56 Up
English

UK

$701,278 $701,278
33 Salinger
English

UK

$583,633 $650,675
34 The Armstrong Lie
English

UK

$383,294 $594,394
35 Storm Surfers 3D
English

UK

$117,090 $589,945
36 Sound City
English

UK

$422,853 $521,181
37 Scatter My Ashes at Bergdorf's
English

UK

$518,342 $518,342
38 We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks
English

UK

$166,243 $457,517
39 Dirty Wars
English

UK

$384,473 $416,853
40 When Comedy Went to School
English

UK

$369,065 $369,065
41 Room 237
English

UK

$296,359 $367,406
42 Koch
English

UK

$342,941 $342,941
43 Linsanity
English

UK

$302,645 $332,990
44 The Summit
English

UK

$243,550 $277,651
45 A Place at the Table
English

UK

$231,378 $231,378
46 The Pervert's Guide to Ideology
English

UK

$67,966 $214,313
47 First Comes Love
English

UK

$0 $207,928
48 No Place on Earth
English

UK

$200,238 $200,238
49 Cutie and the Boxer
English

UK

$200,036 $200,036
50 Free Angela & All Political Prisoners
English

UK

$194,102 $195,005

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