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All Time Domestic Box Office for Based on Real Life Events Movies (Rank 1,001-1,100)
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This chart contains the top 100 Based on Real Life Events movies based on the cumulative domestic box office.
See our Based on Real Life Events Theatrical Market Charts for more overviews regarding the domestic theatrical box office performance of Based on Real Life Events movies.
| Rank | Released | Movie | Domestic Box Office |
International Box Office |
Worldwide Box Office |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1,001 | 2017 | Chasing the Dragon (追龍) | $456,854 | $87,512,183 | $87,969,037 |
| 1,002 | 2019 | Les Misérables - The Staged Concert | $455,544 | $4,587,391 | $5,042,935 |
| 1,003 | 2010 | The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsb… | $453,650 | $453,650 | |
| 1,004 | 2020 | Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and The Band | $449,561 | $106,759 | $556,320 |
| 1,005 | 2020 | Seberg | $448,009 | $817,110 | $1,265,119 |
| 1,006 | 2023 | Corazón de Padre | $447,912 | $93,165 | $541,077 |
| 1,007 | 2004 | Callas Forever | $445,996 | $5,327,134 | $5,773,130 |
| 1,008 | 2021 | The Lost Leonardo | $445,740 | $154,368 | $600,108 |
| 1,009 | 2006 | The Heart of the Game | $444,687 | $1,944 | $446,631 |
| 1,010 | 2007 | When the Road Bends: Tales of a Gypsy Caravan | $442,936 | $254,126 | $697,062 |
| 1,011 | 2011 | No One Killed Jessica | $442,036 | $4,124,767 | $4,566,803 |
| 1,012 | 1998 | Kurt and Courtney | $441,808 | $441,808 | |
| 1,013 | 2006 | Sketches of Frank Gehry | $439,309 | $287,851 | $727,160 |
| 1,014 | 2010 | Vision | $435,274 | $435,274 | |
| 1,015 | 2015 | Rosenwald | $433,924 | $433,924 | |
| 1,016 | 2025 | The Luckiest Man in America | $433,617 | $433,617 | |
| 1,017 | 2010 | I Want Your Money | $433,588 | $433,588 | |
| 1,018 | 2023 | Carlos | $432,479 | $13,731 | $446,210 |
| 1,019 | 2014 | La petite reine | $430,527 | $430,527 | |
| 1,020 | 2015 | Saint Laurent | $429,477 | $7,017 | $436,494 |
| 1,021 | 1981 | This is Elvis | $429,146 | $429,146 | |
| 1,022 | 2007 | The Singing Revolution | $426,855 | $426,855 | |
| 1,023 | 2015 | Listen to Me Marlon | $426,130 | $91,663 | $517,793 |
| 1,024 | 2019 | Hail Satan? | $424,284 | $43,011 | $467,295 |
| 1,025 | 2014 | She's Beautiful When She's Angry | $423,143 | $423,143 | |
| 1,026 | 2013 | Sound City | $422,853 | $98,328 | $521,181 |
| 1,027 | 2024 | Eno | $421,657 | $224,578 | $646,235 |
| 1,028 | 2015 | Heart of a Dog | $420,813 | $29,609 | $450,422 |
| 1,029 | 1999 | The Last Days | $419,762 | $419,762 | |
| 1,030 | 2001 | Porn Star: The Legend of Ron Jeremy | $419,597 | $419,597 | |
| 1,031 | 2001 | Bride of the Wind | $419,414 | $419,414 | |
| 1,032 | 2013 | Watermark | $417,215 | $417,215 | |
| 1,033 | 2014 | Wakolda | $414,912 | $2,676,288 | $3,091,200 |
| 1,034 | 2004 | In the Realms of the Unreal | $413,708 | $413,708 | |
| 1,035 | 2019 | Union | $413,656 | $413,656 | |
| 1,036 | 2016 | Embrace | $412,340 | $1,199,252 | $1,611,592 |
| 1,037 | 2011 | Project Nim | $411,184 | $1,172,349 | $1,583,533 |
| 1,038 | 2025 | Evil Unbound (731) | $410,904 | $247,317,986 | $247,728,890 |
| 1,039 | 2015 | Janis: Little Girl Blue | $410,465 | $1,994,001 | $2,404,466 |
| 1,040 | 2015 | Unbranded | $410,185 | $230,609 | $640,794 |
| 1,041 | 2010 | I\'m Still Here | $408,983 | $328,662 | $737,645 |
| 1,042 | 1989 | Triumph of the Spirit | $408,839 | $408,839 | |
| 1,043 | 2019 | Die Unsichtbaren | $408,397 | $231,729 | $640,126 |
| 1,044 | 2011 | The 5th Quarter | $408,159 | $408,159 | |
| 1,045 | 2017 | Chasing Trane: The John Coltrane Documentary | $406,284 | $406,284 | |
| 1,046 | 2015 | The Hunting Ground | $405,917 | $5,198 | $411,115 |
| 1,047 | 2004 | Outfoxed - Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism | $405,900 | $43,587 | $449,487 |
| 1,048 | 2022 | Facing Nolan | $405,797 | $405,797 | |
| 1,049 | 2003 | Amandla! A Revolution in Four Part Harmony | $405,331 | $70,592 | $475,923 |
| 1,050 | 2018 | The Gospel According to Andre | $400,713 | $54,409 | $455,122 |
| 1,051 | 2018 | Leaning into the Wind | $400,530 | $51,842 | $452,372 |
| 1,052 | 2022 | Superspreader | $399,370 | $399,370 | |
| 1,053 | 2015 | Freetown | $397,122 | $397,122 | |
| 1,054 | 2004 | Still, We Believe: The Boston Red Sox Movie | $396,803 | $396,803 | |
| 1,055 | 2007 | Manufactured Landscapes | $395,623 | $395,623 | |
| 1,056 | 2025 | One to One: John & Yoko | $394,239 | $706,114 | $1,100,353 |
| 1,057 | 2004 | End of the Century: The Story of the Ramones | $391,950 | $86,859 | $478,809 |
| 1,058 | 2011 | Turtle: The Incredible Journey | $391,942 | $966,898 | $1,358,840 |
| 1,059 | 2010 | L'affaire Farewell, l'espion de la vengeance | $390,157 | $390,157 | |
| 1,060 | 2012 | Detropia | $390,024 | $146 | $390,170 |
| 1,061 | 2022 | The Inspection | $385,627 | $44,981 | $430,608 |
| 1,062 | 2008 | Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden? | $384,955 | $384,955 | |
| 1,063 | 2000 | Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kind… | $382,807 | $88,145 | $470,952 |
| 1,064 | 2018 | Soorma | $382,104 | $6,168,605 | $6,550,709 |
| 1,065 | 2013 | The Armstrong Lie | $381,703 | $262,182 | $643,885 |
| 1,066 | 2004 | Short Cut to Nirvana: Kumbh Mela | $381,225 | $58,426 | $439,651 |
| 1,067 | 2000 | Bittersweet Motel | $380,927 | $380,927 | |
| 1,068 | 2018 | Jane and Emma | $380,017 | $380,017 | |
| 1,069 | 2019 | The Cure: Anniversary 1978-2018 Live in Hyde Park | $378,405 | $202,152 | $580,557 |
| 1,070 | 2017 | Tom of Finland | $378,296 | $156,272 | $534,568 |
| 1,071 | 1998 | Artemisia | $377,512 | $377,512 | |
| 1,072 | 2003 | Im Toten Winkel - Hitlers Sekretärin | $376,886 | $376,886 | |
| 1,073 | 2018 | Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami | $375,208 | $363,429 | $738,637 |
| 1,074 | 2013 | Dirty Wars | $371,245 | $43,314 | $414,559 |
| 1,075 | 2013 | Hava Nagila: The Movie | $368,724 | $368,724 | |
| 1,076 | 2010 | Lebanon | $368,088 | $1,596,701 | $1,964,789 |
| 1,077 | 2013 | When Comedy Went to School | $365,548 | $365,548 | |
| 1,078 | 2014 | Glen Campbell: I'll Be Me | $365,522 | $365,522 | |
| 1,079 | 2024 | Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat | $365,318 | $73,354 | $438,672 |
| 1,080 | 2018 | Mountain | $364,429 | $1,596,663 | $1,961,092 |
| 1,081 | 1999 | The Source | $362,357 | $1,594,465 | $1,956,822 |
| 1,082 | 2018 | Kusama: Infinity | $360,931 | $213,698 | $574,629 |
| 1,083 | 2016 | Mr. Donkey | $356,255 | $25,048,315 | $25,404,570 |
| 1,084 | 2006 | Copying Beethoven | $355,968 | $6,230,356 | $6,586,324 |
| 1,085 | 2025 | Orwell: 2+2 = 5 | $355,288 | $355,288 | |
| 1,086 | 2016 | Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words | $355,074 | $10,466 | $365,540 |
| 1,087 | 2021 | Benedetta | $354,481 | $3,675,069 | $4,029,550 |
| 1,088 | 2004 | Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who We… | $353,580 | $38,138 | $391,718 |
| 1,089 | 2013 | Lovelace | $352,755 | $85,015 | $437,770 |
| 1,090 | 2017 | Long Strange Trip: The Untold Story of the Grat… | $351,957 | $351,957 | |
| 1,091 | 2017 | Pearl Jam: Let’s Play Two | $348,832 | $212,746 | $561,578 |
| 1,092 | 2015 | Noble | $347,321 | $638,271 | $985,592 |
| 1,093 | 2013 | Mindless Behavior: All Around The World | $344,500 | $344,500 | |
| 1,094 | 1998 | Love is the Devil | $343,023 | $364,631 | $707,654 |
| 1,095 | 2013 | Koch | $342,941 | $342,941 | |
| 1,096 | 2021 | Escape from Mogadishu (모가디슈) | $342,598 | $29,506,181 | $29,848,779 |
| 1,097 | 2015 | Talvar | $342,428 | $34,574 | $377,002 |
| 1,098 | 2010 | Creation | $341,323 | $341,323 | |
| 1,099 | 2014 | Jimi: All is By My Side | $340,911 | $586,163 | $927,074 |
| 1,100 | 1995 | Total Eclipse | $339,889 | $339,889 |
The Domestic Market is defined as the North American movie territory (consisting of the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico and Guam).
This table is updated daily to reflect the latest studio reports.
Note: This chart is not adjusted for inflation.