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#11,620 All-time worldwide
#218 1999 releases

Movie profile

Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr.

1999 · 91 min · Independent Film Channel

Documentary
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $507,941
Budget —
Gross minus budget —
ROI —

Domestic gross

$203,176

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$304,765

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$56,889

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr. ranks

Positioned across the all-time chart, release year, studio, franchise and genre indexes where enough mapped data exists.
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All-time worldwide #11,620 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1999 releases #218 Release-year chart position of 249 titles Ranked against movies released in 1999. Studio / company #1 Independent Film Channel of 2 titles Position inside the mapped Independent Film Channel movie set. Primary genre #152 Documentary of 204 titles Genre context based on the first mapped genre on this profile.

Nearby worldwide ranks

Comparable titles immediately around this movie by reported worldwide gross.

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Quick answer

How did Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr. (1999) perform at the box office?

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Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr. (1999) has a reported worldwide box office gross of $507.9K. In this database it currently ranks #11,620 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #218 among 1999 releases.

Worldwide gross
$507,941
Budget
Not available
Gross minus budget
Not available
ROI
Not available
Source: TMDb. Last updated: Jul 13, 2026. View source Gross-minus-budget is not studio net profit. It excludes marketing, distribution fees, revenue splits, tax incentives and later home/streaming revenue.

Synopsis

Story

A portrait of the life and career of the infamous American execution device designer Fred A. Leuchter, Jr. Mr. Leuchter was an engineer who became an expert on execution devices and was later hired by holocaust revisionist historian Ernst Zundel to "prove" that there were no gas chambers at Auschwitz. Leuchter published a controversial report confirming Zundel's position, which ultimately ruined his own career. Most of the footage is of Leuchter, working in and around execution facilities or chipping away at the walls of Auschwitz, but Morris also interviews various historians, associates, and neighbors.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Dec 29, 1999
Production
Independent Film Channel, Fourth Floor Pictures, Scout Productions
Countries
GB, US

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Why this movie matters

Released in 1999, Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr. is positioned in this dataset as a Documentary title from Independent Film Channel. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $507,941. For comparison, it currently sits #11,620 all-time in the current chart set and #218 among 1999 releases. Streaming availability should be checked against the selected United States region because provider rights can change.

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Data noteGross minus budget is not studio net profit. It excludes marketing, distribution fees, revenue splits, tax incentives and downstream revenue. Domestic, international and opening weekend figures marked as estimated are modelled estimates.