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#8,112 All-time worldwide
#135 1995 releases

Movie profile

White Man's Burden

1995 · 89 min · Ugc

Drama
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $9.0M
Budget $7.0M
Gross minus budget $2.0M
ROI 1.29x

Domestic gross

$4.5M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$4.5M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$810,000

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where White Man's Burden 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 #8,112 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1995 releases #135 Release-year chart position of 249 titles Ranked against movies released in 1995. Studio / company #5 Ugc of 6 titles Position inside the mapped Ugc movie set. Primary genre #3,421 Drama of 5,859 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 White Man's Burden (1995) perform at the box office?

High confidence

White Man's Burden (1995) earned a reported $9.0M worldwide against a reported $7.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about $2.0M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 1.29x. In this database it currently ranks #8,112 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #135 among 1995 releases.

Worldwide gross
$9,000,000
Budget
$7,000,000
Gross minus budget
$2,000,000
ROI
1.29x
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

The story takes place in alternative America where the blacks are members of social elite, and whites are inhabitants of inner city ghettos. Louis Pinnock is a white worker in a chocolate factory, loving husband and father of two children. While delivering a package for black CEO Thaddeus Thomas, he is mistaken for a voyeur and, as a result, loses his job, gets beaten by black cops and his family gets evicted from their home. Desperate Pinnock takes a gun and kidnaps Thomas, demanding justice.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Dec 1, 1995
Production
UGC, A Band Apart, Lawrence Bender Productions
Countries
FR, US

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Studio / production companyUgc Release year chart1995 box office Genre chartDrama

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Why this movie matters

Released in 1995, White Man's Burden is positioned in this dataset as a Drama title from UGC. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $9.0M, reported production budget is $7.0M, gross-minus-budget is $2.0M, ROI is 1.29x. For comparison, it currently sits #8,112 all-time in the current chart set and #135 among 1995 releases. Streaming availability should be checked against the selected United States region because provider rights can change.

AI-generated contextual summary based on available movie, genre, ranking and box office data. It does not replace official distributor notes or financial reporting.
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.