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The decision to time the opening of the scathing takedown of presidential nominee Hillary Clinton to the Republican and Democratic conventions seems to be paying off.

Conservative author and filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza has added another win: Hillary’s America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party has quickly become the top-grossing documentary of the year to date at the U.S. box office, amassing $5.2 million in its first dozen days.

That’s the best showing of any documentary since Amy Winehouse doc Amy earned $8.2 million following its release on July 3, 2015. And among 2016 docs, Hillary’s America easily trumps the $4.1 million grossed by Imax documentary A Beautiful Planet and the $3.8 million grossed by Michael Moore’s Where to Invade Next.

Among political documentaries, Hillary’s America already ranks No. 10.

D’Souza’s 100-minute film takes doesn’t pretend to be non-partisan. A trailer for the doc refers to Bill and Hillary Clinton — who on Tuesday became the first female presidential nominee of any major party — as “depraved crooks” and Democrats as “the party of corruption” that is associated with slavery, lynchings, the KKK and forced sterilization.

The decision to time the opening of Hillary’s America to the Republican and Democratic National Conventions has paid off for Souza and distributor Quality Flix.

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Hundreds of eager fans and conservative celebrities packed the premiere of Dinesh D’Souza’s latest film, Hillary’s America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party, at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Hollywood Monday night.

Before the screening, D’Souza explained that his latest film is tonally different than his previous documentaries, 2016: Obama’s America and America: Imagine the World Without Her, adding that if he had to pick a genre for Hillary’s America, it would be horror.

The 55-year-old filmmaker said that if every American could see this film, it would be “impossible for Hillary Clinton to get elected.”

“We’re opening our film July 22nd, about two weeks from now, right between the two conventions,” D’Souza said. “The idea is that the Democrats, the Hillary Democrats, have their narrative, and we will have our counter-narrative opening in 1,500 theaters across the country.”

The 100-minute film differs from D’Souza’s previous efforts in that it uses narrative elements mixed with interviews to present a complete picture of the history of the Democratic Party, starting with slave-owning President Andrew Jackson and guiding viewers through Margaret Sanger’s founding of Planned Parenthood and up to President Woodrow Wilson, who screened the Ku Klux Klan-glorifying movie The Birth of a Nation at the White House.

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