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Top Grossing Documentary Movies in 2018

Rank Title Language Domestic Worldwide
1 Transformer
English

UK

$130,168,683 $605,425,157
2 The Road Movie
Russian

RU

$86,089,513 $217,776,646
3 Believer
English

UK

$365,639 $39,047,153
4 Free Solo
english

UK

$17,541,090 $29,390,279
5 Won't You Be My Neighbor?
English

UK

$22,835,787 $22,844,741
6 They Shall Not Grow Old
English

UK

$17,956,913 $21,656,913
7 RBG
English

UK

$14,051,361 $14,475,292
8 Three Identical Strangers
English

UK

$12,320,845 $13,448,497
9 Pope Francis - A Man of His Word
italian

IT

$2,008,385 $8,608,385
10 Pandas
English

UK

$7,574,012 $7,821,975
11 Amazing Grace
english

UK

$4,450,456 $7,796,112
12 Fahrenheit 11/9
English

UK

$6,352,306 $6,674,168
13 Death of a Nation
english

UK

$5,885,881 $5,885,881
14 Whitney
English

UK

$3,026,351 $4,605,123
15 The American Meme
English

UK

$2,178,460 $4,110,928
16 Tea with the Dames $889,343 $3,152,826
17 Maria by Callas
English

UK

$1,267,301 $2,869,237
18 City of Joy $572,493 $2,824,459
19 McQueen
English

UK

$1,257,275 $2,739,246
20 March of the Penguins 2: The Next Step
French

FR

$0 $2,323,262
21 Mountain
English

UK

$365,412 $2,129,889
22 Roll With Me
arabic

AR

$726,726 $1,606,705
23 The Dawn Wall
english

UK

$970,032 $1,445,519
24 The Heart of Nuba
English

UK

$951,112 $1,179,033
25 Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda
Japanese

JP

$117,460 $984,803
26 Coldplay: A Head Full of Dreams
English

UK

$0 $812,524
27 Pick of the Litter
English

UK

$578,717 $763,688
28 Kusama - Infinity
English

UK

$360,931 $753,520
29 12 Days
French

FR

$5,204 $722,049
30 Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami
English

UK

$375,208 $632,394
31 Love, Gilda
English

UK

$626,318 $626,318
32 Lots of Kids, a Monkey and a Castle
Spanish

ES

$0 $500,592
33 Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood
English

UK

$461,689 $461,689
34 Leaning Into the Wind
English

UK

$400,530 $452,372
35 What We Started
English

UK

$382,457 $434,437
36 Westwood: Punk, Icon, Activist
English

UK

$58,979 $406,100
37 Generation Wealth
English

UK

$237,709 $287,709
38 Science Fair
English

UK

$276,195 $277,338
39 Becoming Who I Was
Hindi

IN

$0 $273,265
40 The World Before Your Feet
English

UK

$268,644 $268,644
41 Good Luck
English

UK

$0 $263,814
42 The Final Year
English

UK

$191,900 $262,286
43 Studio 54
English

UK

$199,767 $239,777
44 Dark Money
English

UK

$217,932 $217,932
45 Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat
English

UK

$166,616 $197,179
46 Always at The Carlyle
English

UK

$174,251 $174,251
47 Far from the Tree
English

UK

$166,018 $166,018
48 The Last Resort
english

UK

$158,646 $158,646
49 Quincy
English

UK

$0 $156,168
50 Bad Reputation
English

UK

$148,568 $154,190

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