--- 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: 2026-02-23T01:16:05.263Z 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=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 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=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Michael Moore Is Releasing a Surprise Documentary About Donald Trump  by [Katie Reilly](https://time.com/author/katie-reilly/)  ## Katie Reilly Oct 18, 2016 7:39 PM UTC  Documentary filmmaker Michael Moore attends the 20th Annual Webby Awards at Cipriani Wall Street on May 16, 2016 in New York City. Documentary filmmaker Michael Moore attends the 20th Annual Webby Awards at Cipriani Wall Street on May 16, 2016 in New York City.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":"2026-02-23T01:16:05.263Z","description":"It's titled Michael Moore in TrumpLand","url":"https://time.com/4535668/michael-moore-donald-trump-documentary/","keywords":["2016 Election","2016 Election topic","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"}}]}] ```