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Box office: Australia: Top documentaries all time

All-time top ten Australian documentaries at the Australian box office, to 31 December 2007

Next update February 2009

Rank	Title	Distributor	Release date	Box office ($)¹
1	Antarctica	IMAX	26 Sep 1996	4,234,376
2	Africa's Elephant Kingdom	IMAX	21 May 1998	3,491,995
3	Bra Boys	Hopscotch	15 Mar 2007	1,698,976
4	Australia: Land Beyond Time	IMAX	6 Mar 2003	803,717
5	Sydney: A Story of a City	IMAX	19 Aug 1999	694,853
6	Cane Toads: An Unnatural History	Ronin	29 Feb 1988	613,910
7	Unfolding Florence: The Many Lives of Florence Broadhurst	Dendy	24 Aug 2006	429,243
8	Forbidden Lie$	Palace	13 Sep 2007	401,027
9	Sacred Sex	Premium	14 Nov 1991	381,844
10	God on My Side	Hopscotch	2 Nov 2006	355,120

Source: Motion Picture Distributors Association of Australia (MPDAA), Nielsen EDI (Australia) and Ronin; compiled by the Australian Film Commission (AFC).

Notes:
World Safari 2: Adventure Bound (released 1984) is not included as national box office figures are unavailable.
1. Earnings are in current dollars (i.e. not adjusted for inflation). Cumulative box office, as reported on 25 January 2008. These figures are updated on an ongoing basis therefore there may be discrepancies with previously published data.