Research

Are you an academic? Are you trying to conduct research? Or maybe you just have a strong desire to know which documentary film grossed the most during its small box office run? If you meet any of these criteria, or if you have some time to kill, this is the page for you. Click the links to learn.

The 1st Annual State of the Market Research Report

An investigation into the current trends and growth in the documentary film world.

"Market Research on the Documentary Film Genre By Matthew Abshire

In conducting market research on documentaries I ran into a major problem: the data was not comprehensively organized or investigated. After talking with various professors here at Northwestern University, with research companies like Nielson Media Research, movie rental companies like NetFlix and Blockbuster and finally with film companies like Sony, Fox Entertainment and Warner Brothers, I came to the unfortunate conclusion that I had spent too much time searching for data that just wasn’t in existence." Read more »

Who Needs Research, When We’ve Got Lists?

Our sites constantly up-dating and ever changing lists of documentaries you should see and why. Read more »

  • Top Ten Documentaries
  • Top Ten Documentaries for "film buffs"
  • Top Ten Documentaries for "documentary newbies" 

Top Grossing Documentaries

Which films earned the big bucks at the box office, courtesy of Box Office Mojo. Read more »