--- title: Batkid Documentary Trailer description: The trailer for Batkid Begins, a documentary about the time San Francisco turned into Gotham to make a cancer patient's dream come true canonical: https://time.com/3052858/batkid-documentary-trailer/ author: Olivia B. Waxman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-07-29T18:59:07.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:12:01.402Z og:title: The Trailer for the Batkid Documentary Will Make You Cry og:description: The IndieGoGo campaign is halfway to its funding goal og:url: https://time.com/3052858/batkid-documentary-trailer/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta884aa40c6c423d3/69869da5e53aba3ebd4d3c8b/batkid.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: batkid og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: The Trailer for the Batkid Documentary Will Make You Cry twitter:description: The IndieGoGo campaign is halfway to its funding goal twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta884aa40c6c423d3/69869da5e53aba3ebd4d3c8b/batkid.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # The Trailer for the Batkid Documentary Will Make You Cry  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Jul 29, 2014 6:59 PM UTC  Trisha Leeper—WireImage/Getty Images  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Jul 29, 2014 6:59 PM UTC Here’s the trailer for [_Batkid Begins_](https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/batkid-begins)_,_ a documentary about the time San Francisco became Gotham for a day to fulfill 5-year-old cancer survivor Miles Scott’s dream of becoming Batman on November 15, 2013\. The campaign was created to raise money to produce a soundtrack and special effects for the film, directed by the Emmy Award-winning director Dana Nachman. The crowd-funding effort is about half way to its funding goal before the funding period ends on August 19, 2014. **MORE:** [On The Scene with Batkid, The Most Adorable Superhero The World Has Ever Known](http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/11/15/on-the-scene-with-batkid-the-most-adorable-superhero-the-world-has-ever-known/) **WATCH:** [The Inspiring Make-A-Wish Recap of #SFBatKid](http://newsfeed.time.com/2014/01/15/watch-this-inspiring-make-a-wish-recap-of-sfbatkid/) Batkid Documentary Trailer ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3052858/batkid-documentary-trailer/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3052858/batkid-documentary-trailer/"},"headline":"The Trailer for the Batkid Documentary Will Make You Cry","datePublished":"2014-07-29T18:59:07.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:12:01.402Z","description":"The IndieGoGo campaign is halfway to its funding goal","url":"https://time.com/3052858/batkid-documentary-trailer/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Appreciation"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta884aa40c6c423d3/69869da5e53aba3ebd4d3c8b/batkid.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Olivia B. Waxman","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta884aa40c6c423d3/69869da5e53aba3ebd4d3c8b/batkid.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"batkid","caption":"","creditText":"Trisha Leeper—WireImage/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3052858/batkid-documentary-trailer/","name":"The Trailer for the Batkid Documentary Will Make You Cry"}}]}] ```