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Released
2004 · FILM

Fahrenheit 9/11

A determined documentarian sets out to expose the hidden forces that he claims rigged the 2000 election and shaped the nation’s response to 9/11, battling entrenched media giants and political power to force a reckoning with America’s most controversial moments.

Controversy... what controversy?

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Written by
Rated
MPA · R
Runtime
122 min
DocumentaryDramaWar

Synopsis

Michael Moore

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 234+ credited

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Kurt EngfehrShot by Andrew BlackScored by Jeff GibbsSound by Gary A Rizzo

Box Office

2004 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 37× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$222.4M

Budget$6.0M
Worldwide gross$222.4M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $119.2M 54% of worldwide · International: $103.2M (46%)

Opening weekend: $158K 0% of its US run. It had legs — it kept earning long after opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $158K0% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 2 theaters

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Also known as

  • (English)Fahrenheit 9/11
  • (Bulgarian)Фаренхайт 9/11
Release dates around the world3 countries · show
  • FranceMay 17, 2004
  • United StatesJun 22, 2004
  • CanadaJun 25, 2004

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