This list shows all Documentary films released in 2006, including films that went direct-to-video, or only got an international theatrical release. For each film, we use the first date on which it was made available to the public, which might include international theatrical or domestic video releases that were a few days, or sometimes more, earlier than the domestic (US/Canada) theatrical release.
The revenue listed is the worldwide box office combined with the domestic home market revenue to date.
Release
Date | Movie | Creative Type | Release
Type | Revenue
to Date | Trailer |
|---|
| January, 2006 |
| January 13 |
Henri Cartier-Bresson - Biographie ei… |
Factual |
Theatrical |
$25,347 |
|
| |
| January 20 |
The Real Dirt on Farmer John |
Factual |
Theatrical |
$72,583 |
|
|
Why We Fight |
Factual |
Theatrical |
$1,880,863 |
|
| |
| January 27 |
Roving Mars |
Factual |
Theatrical |
$11,248,978 |
|
| February, 2006 |
| February 3 |
Blossoms of Fire |
Factual |
Theatrical |
$2,390 |
|
|
Trudell |
Factual |
Theatrical |
$26,756 |
|
|
What the Bleep?: Down the Rabbit Hole |
Factual |
Theatrical |
$135,706 |
|
|
Who Gets to Call It Art? |
Factual |
Theatrical |
$27,344 |
|
| |
| February 10 |
Cowboy Del Amor |
Factual |
Theatrical |
$4,438 |
|
|
The Ister |
Factual |
Theatrical |
$1,124 |
|
|
Through the Fire |
Factual |
Theatrical |
$14,769 |
|
| |
| February 22 |
Street Fight |
Factual |
Theatrical |
$4,779 |
|
| |
| February 24 |
Plagues and Pleasures on the Salton Sea |
|
Theatrical |
$53,471 |
|
|
Unknown White Male |
Factual |
Theatrical |
$126,836 |
|
|
Workingman's Death |
Factual |
Theatrical |
$2,214 |
|
| March, 2006 |
| March 3 |
Dave Chappelle's Block Party |
Factual |
Theatrical |
$31,179,103 |
|
|
Deep Sea 3D |
Factual |
Theatrical |
$106,517,610 |
|
|
Our Brand is Crisis |
Factual |
Theatrical |
$166,750 |
|
| |
| March 10 |
Shakespeare Behind Bars |
|
Theatrical |
$48,594 |
|
| |
| March 17 |
The Big Question |
Factual |
Theatrical |
$2,248 |
|
|
The Devil's Miner |
Factual |
Theatrical |
$14,289 |
|
|
Rape of the Soul |
|
Theatrical |
$39,975 |
|
| |
| March 23 |
In Search of Mozart |
Factual |
Theatrical |
$410,390 |
|
| |
| March 24 |
The Beauty Academy of Kabul |
|
Theatrical |
$225,448 |
|
|
Mardi Gras: Made in China |
Factual |
Theatrical |
$2,500 |
|
| |
| March 31 |
The Devil and Daniel Johnston |
Factual |
Theatrical |
$453,337 |
|
|
Tibet: A Buddhist Trilogy |
Factual |
Theatrical |
$47,243 |
|
| April, 2006 |
| April 7 |
95 Miles to Go |
Factual |
Theatrical |
$3,195 |
|
|
Sir! No Sir! |
Factual |
Theatrical |
$116,944 |
|
| |
| April 12 |
Sisters in Law |
Factual |
Theatrical |
$33,312 |
|
| |
| April 14 |
Herbie Hancock: Possibilities |
Factual |
Theatrical |
$2,493 |
|
| |
| April 21 |
Bullrider |
Factual |
Theatrical |
$5,800 |
|
|
Stolen |
Factual |
Theatrical |
$132,596 |
|
| May, 2006 |
| May 5 |
Commune |
Factual |
Theatrical |
$41,714 |
|
|
The Fall of Fujimori |
Factual |
Theatrical |
$4,630 |
|
| |
| May 12 |
Giuliani Time |
Factual |
Theatrical |
$21,967 |
|
|
Sketches of Frank Gehry |
Factual |
Theatrical |
$727,160 |
|
| |
| May 24 |
An Inconvenient Truth |
Factual |
Theatrical |
$86,838,953 |
|
| June, 2006 |
| June 2 |
The Cult of the Suicide Bomber |
Factual |
Theatrical |
$7,451 |
|
|
Favela Rising |
Factual |
Theatrical |
$10,565 |
|
|
The War Tapes |
Factual |
Theatrical |
$254,190 |
|
| |
| June 9 |
Cottonfields and Crossroads |
Factual |
Theatrical |
$12,000 |
|
|
Crossing the Bridge: The Sound of Ist… |
Factual |
Theatrical |
$140,685 |
|
|
The Heart of the Game |
Factual |
Theatrical |
$446,631 |
|
| |
| June 16 |
Wordplay |
Factual |
Theatrical |
$3,177,636 |
|
| |
| June 20 |
When Stand Up Stood Out |
Factual |
Video |
$0 |
|
| |
| June 21 |
Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man |
Factual |
Theatrical |
$1,394,254 |
|
| |
| June 28 |
Rank |
Factual |
Theatrical |
$2,485 |
|
|
Who Killed the Electric Car? |
Factual |
Theatrical |
$1,849,392 |
|
| |
| June 30 |
The Blood of My Brother: A Story of D… |
Factual |
Theatrical |
$0 |
|
| July, 2006 |
| July 7 |
Islam: What the West Needs to Know |
Factual |
Theatrical |
$22,938 |
|
|
Kill Your Idols |
Factual |
Theatrical |
$7,753 |
|
|
Once in a Lifetime: the Extraordinary… |
Factual |
Theatrical |
$215,559 |
|
| |
| July 14 |
Excellent Cadavers |
Factual |
Theatrical |
$30,296 |
|
| |
| July 21 |
Been Rich All My Life |
Factual |
Theatrical |
$36,406 |
|
|
The Case of the Grinning Cat |
Factual |
Theatrical |
$7,033 |
|
| |
| July 22 |
The Doctor, the Tornado and the Kentu… |
Factual |
Video |
$0 |
|
| |
| July 28 |
America: Freedom to Fascism |
Factual |
Theatrical |
$87,400 |
|
|
The Photographer, His Wife, Her Lover |
Factual |
Theatrical |
$10,330 |
|
| August, 2006 |
| August 4 |
My Country My Country |
Factual |
Theatrical |
$33,620 |
|
| |
| August 18 |
King Leopold's Ghost |
Factual |
Theatrical |
$5,194 |
|
| |
| August 25 |
Suicide Killers |
Factual |
Theatrical |
$18,239 |
|
| September, 2006 |
| September 1 |
This Film is Not Yet Rated |
Factual |
Theatrical |
$341,768 |
|
| |
| September 6 |
Bubot Niyar |
Factual |
Theatrical |
$36,089 |
|
|
Saint of 9/11 |
Factual |
Theatrical |
$7,137 |
|
| |
| September 8 |
I Trust You To Kill Me |
Factual |
Theatrical |
$12,854 |
|
|
Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers |
Factual |
Theatrical |
$0 |
|
|
Salvadore Allende |
Factual |
Theatrical |
$8,454 |
|
| |
| September 13 |
Al Franken: God Spoke |
Factual |
Theatrical |
$102,990 |
|
| |
| September 15 |
The Ground Truth: After the Killing Ends |
Factual |
Theatrical |
$20,013 |
|
|
Jesus Camp |
Factual |
Theatrical |
$1,394,989 |
|
|
The U.S. vs John Lennon |
Factual |
Theatrical |
$1,387,320 |
|
| |
| September 22 |
American Hardcore |
Factual |
Theatrical |
$287,987 |
|
| October, 2006 |
| October 1 |
The Secret |
Factual |
Video |
$66,059,961 |
|
| |
| October 4 |
So Goes the Nation |
Factual |
Theatrical |
$10,337 |
|
|
Wrestling with Angels |
Factual |
Theatrical |
$24,729 |
|
| |
| October 6 |
49 Up |
Factual |
Theatrical |
$241,772 |
|
|
Tales of the Rat Fink |
Factual |
Theatrical |
$0 |
|
| |
| October 11 |
So Much So Fast |
Factual |
Theatrical |
$16,411 |
|
| |
| October 13 |
Deliver Us From Evil |
Factual |
Theatrical |
$201,275 |
|
|
Out of Place: Memories of Edward Said |
Factual |
Theatrical |
$3,897 |
|
| |
| October 18 |
51 Birch Street |
Factual |
Theatrical |
$84,689 |
|
| |
| October 24 |
The World According to Sesame Street |
Factual |
Video |
$0 |
|
| |
| October 27 |
Absolute Wilson |
Factual |
Theatrical |
$66,217 |
|
|
The Bridge |
Factual |
Theatrical |
$179,780 |
|
|
Cocaine Cowboys |
Factual |
Theatrical |
$163,000 |
|
|
Shut Up and Sing |
Factual |
Theatrical |
$2,000,043 |
|
| |
| October 31 |
Terrorstorm - A History of Government… |
Factual |
Video |
$0 |
|
| November, 2006 |
| November 1 |
Romántico |
Factual |
Theatrical |
$29,460 |
|
| |
| November 8 |
Iraq in Fragments |
Factual |
Theatrical |
$240,462 |
|
| |
| November 10 |
F*ck |
Factual |
Theatrical |
$22,359 |
|
| |
| November 15 |
Who the #$^% is Jackson Pollock? |
Factual |
Theatrical |
$13,710 |
|
| |
| November 17 |
Encounter Point |
Factual |
Theatrical |
$0 |
|
|
Hannari - Geisha Modern |
Factual |
Theatrical |
$0 |
|
| |
| November 24 |
Abduction: The Megumi Yokota Story |
Factual |
Theatrical |
$26,859 |
|
|
Unser täglich Brot |
Factual |
Theatrical |
$0 |
|
| December, 2006 |
| December 5 |
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Two Takes by W… |
Factual |
Video |
$0 |
|
| |
| December 8 |
The Empire in Africa |
Factual |
Theatrical |
$1,088 |
|
|
Mr. Leather |
Factual |
Theatrical |
$0 |
|
|
Screamers |
Factual |
Theatrical |
$52,034 |
|
| |
| December 20 |
Matthew Barney: No Restraint |
Factual |
Theatrical |
$16,136 |
|
| |
| |
| Unknown TBD |
Deutschland: Ein Sommermarchen |
Factual |
Unknown |
$14,700,000 |
|
|
The Holy Modal Rounders: Bound to Lose |
Factual |
Unknown |
$0 |
|
|
Hurricane on the Bayou |
Factual |
Unknown |
$0 |
|
|
A Lion in the House |
Factual |
Unknown |
$0 |
|
|
Project Jay |
Factual |
Unknown |
$0 |
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