--- title: Michael Moore: Donald Trump Documentary Surprise Premiere description: Filmmaker Michael Moore will debut a surprise documentary about Republican nominee Donald Trump on Tuesday night in New York City canonical: https://time.com/4535668/michael-moore-donald-trump-documentary/ author: Katie Reilly article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-10-18T19:39:10.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-19T07:48:17.364Z article:section: Politics og:title: Michael Moore Is Releasing a Surprise Documentary About Donald Trump og:description: It's titled "Michael Moore in TrumpLand" og:url: https://time.com/4535668/michael-moore-donald-trump-documentary/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte7822e071c20dd66/6988aa81656a3f57a6bcd806/donald-trump-documentary.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3000 og:image:height: 1688 og:image:alt: 20th Annual Webby Awards og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Michael Moore Is Releasing a Surprise Documentary About Donald Trump twitter:description: It's titled "Michael Moore in TrumpLand" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte7822e071c20dd66/6988aa81656a3f57a6bcd806/donald-trump-documentary.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Michael Moore Is Releasing a Surprise Documentary About Donald Trump > Sponsored content. 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Gary Gershoff/WireImage  by [Katie Reilly](https://time.com/author/katie-reilly/)  ## Katie Reilly Oct 18, 2016 7:39 PM UTC Filmmaker [Michael Moore](http://time.com/4472307/michael-moore-donald-trump-played/) will debut a surprise documentary about Republican nominee Donald Trump on Tuesday night in New York City, weeks away from the presidential election. The documentary, titled _Michael Moore in TrumpLand_, will be [screened at New York City’s IFC Center](http://www.ifccenter.com/films/michael-moore-in-trumpland/) for free on Tuesday—an event that Moore has called his own “October surprise.” “See the film Ohio Republicans tried to shut down,” the documentary’s description says. “Oscar-winner Michael Moore dives right into hostile territory with his daring and hilarious one-man show, deep in the heart of TrumpLand in the weeks before the 2016 election.” Moore, a [vocal critic](http://time.com/4416914/michael-moore-donald-trump/) of Trump, had recently [teased](https://twitter.com/MMFlint/status/787769306528440321) on [social media](https://twitter.com/MMFlint/status/788189609834475520) that he was working on a special pre-election project. > [](https://twitter.com/MMFlint/status/788192843206713345) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4535668/michael-moore-donald-trump-documentary/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4535668/michael-moore-donald-trump-documentary/"},"headline":"Michael Moore Is Releasing a Surprise Documentary About Donald Trump","datePublished":"2016-10-18T19:39:10.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-19T07:48:17.364Z","description":"It's titled Michael Moore in TrumpLand","url":"https://time.com/4535668/michael-moore-donald-trump-documentary/","keywords":["2016 Election","2016 Election","film","Donald Trump"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte7822e071c20dd66/6988aa81656a3f57a6bcd806/donald-trump-documentary.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Katie Reilly","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/katie-reilly/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte7822e071c20dd66/6988aa81656a3f57a6bcd806/donald-trump-documentary.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"20th Annual Webby Awards","caption":"20th Annual Webby Awards","creditText":"Gary Gershoff/WireImage","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":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/2016-election/","name":"2016 Election"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4535668/michael-moore-donald-trump-documentary/","name":"Michael Moore Is Releasing a Surprise Documentary About Donald Trump"}}]}] ```