Over the past decade's boom in nonfiction film, documentaries of all shapes, sizes and niche interests have found their way into theaters.
Either way, the picture has accelerated to £798,000 after three weeks of play, and is clearly headed for £1m and a place in the top 10 documentaries of all time at the UK box-office (excluding music concert flicks).
The film now ranks as the fourth highest-grossing documentary of the year, behind "Three Identical Strangers," "RBG" and "Won't You Be My Neighbor?" All four films are now in the top 30 documentaries of all time.
Amy should have no problem overtaking both Deep Sea and Penguins, thereby becoming the second-biggest non-concert documentary of all time in the UK.
It has lately been the subject of Hollywood films and a successful documentary — the third-most popular documentary of all time in Britain — that looks at the life of Ayrton Senna, the world champion who died in a racing accident in 1994.
What is there to be said about it if Michael Moore could reference its contents in the highest grossing documentary film of all time and everyone knew what he was talking about.
That sort of juxtaposition might not fly on the nightly news, but it's the sort of dramatic device used in documentaries all the time.
And astonishingly, in spite of all the television documentaries, books, films and artworks, our public knowledge of 20th-century history is appalling.
But the documentary Before Stonewall revealed that in spite of all this, there was a world of people who boldly chose to love, despite threats of persecution and blackmail.
Even for extremely severe forms of illnesses, such as those depicted in the documentary, women in more than half of all areas in the UK do not have access to the specialist care they need during pregnancy and postnatally.
