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Capitalism Edges Past Expelled as the 5th Top Grossing Political Documentary

This week Michael Moore’s Capitalism: A Love Story ($9.9 million) edged past Ben Stein’s Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed ($7.7 million) on the list of top grossing political documentaries. For more […]

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Matthew C. Nisbet

August 16, 2010

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This week Michael Moore’s Capitalism: A Love Story ($9.9 million) edged past Ben Stein’s Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed ($7.7 million) on the list of top grossing political documentaries. For more on the impact and box office success of Expelled, see this past article I contributed to Skeptical Inquirer magazine.

Matthew C. Nisbet

Associate Professor of Communication, Northeastern University

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