Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015) is now the number one movie when it comes to North America box office grosses.  The box office success of Star Wars 7 was incredible.  But, when you look at the all-time North America ticket sales leaders…..Star Wars: The Force Awakens has not even cracked the Top 10.

So with Star Wars: The Force Awakens now being listed as the biggest box office hit of all-time….we figured it would be interesting to look at the top ticket selling movies of all-time.  The following table shows all the movies in our database that sold more than 40 million tickets in North America.  If you compare our table to Box Office Mojo’s Adjusted For Inflation Leaders you will see some differences.  Box Office Mojo is awesome when looking at movies from 1982 to today.  Easily the best source on the internet.  Movies made before 1980 are not the strength of Box Office Mojo…as they often use box office rentals versus box office grosses.

We did some massive updates on this page today.   The good news is we now have more information on each of these blockbusters.  The bad news is our database is not letting us include our estimated ticket sells in the table….so we had to create a second table with those ticket numbers.   So if you sort the first table by adjusted domestic gross….it will rank the top box office movies from #1 Gone With The Wind to #275 The Aristocats.  To see the estimated ticket sell numbers you have to go to the second table.

All Time Top Ticket Selling Movies Can Be Sorted 6 Ways In This Table

The really cool thing about this table is that it is “user-sortable”. Rank the movies anyway you want.

• Sort All Time Top Ticket Selling movies by movie title and movie trailers
• Sort All Time Top Ticket Selling movies by the stars of the movie
• Sort All Time Top Ticket Selling movies by how much they earned in adjusted domestic box office (in millions)
• Sort All Time Top Ticket Selling movies by estimated tickets sold (in millions)
• Sort All Time Top Ticket Selling movies by critic and audience reviews
• Sort All Time Top Ticket Selling movies by Oscar nominations and Oscar wins
• Sort All Time Top Ticket Selling movie by UMR Score…..UMR Score combines box office, reviews and awards