R. J. Cutler's The September Issue, which captures both the process of producing the September 2007 issue of Vogue magazine and the intramural tension between Editor-in-Chief Anna Wintour and Creative Director Grace Coddington, exceeded $1 million at the box office in its third week of release.  Following aan opening two-week run in New York City,. The film rolled out wide across the country-and pulled in over $700,000 over the weekend, for a cumulative gross total of $1,283,000, according to BoxOfficeMojo.com. The September Issue is the sixth million dollar-grosser of 09, and with It Might Get Loud showing potential and Capitalism: A Love Story destined to join Michael Moore's trophy case of commercial successes, docs are looking to close out the decade relatively strongly--albeit in a platform of steadily declining promise.

Here's a list of the top grossing docs of 2009 to date:

1) Earth           $32,011,576

2) Food, Inc.   $ 4,205,402

3) Waltz With Bashir   $ 2,283,849

4) Valentino: The Last Emperor         $ 1,755,134

5) Every Little Step      $ 1,709,679

6) The September Issue  $1,283,000

7) Tyson          $ 887,918

8) It Might Get Loud               $ 802,000

9) The Wonder of It All            $ 744,298

10) The Cross: The Arthur Blessit Story         $ 741,557