--- description: Watch the new trailer for 'Barry,' a biographical film about Obama's days as a student at Columbia University in the early 1980s title: Watch the Trailer for 'Barry,' Netflix's Barack Obama Biopic image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [movies](/tag/movies/) ## movies Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Watch The Trailer For _Barry_, Netflix's Barack Obama Biopic by [Nash Jenkins](/author/p-nash-jenkins/) ## Nash Jenkins Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Nov 22, 2016 8:18 AM CUT by [Nash Jenkins](/author/p-nash-jenkins/) ## Nash Jenkins Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Nov 22, 2016 8:18 AM CUT There are just under two months until Donald Trump is [inaugurated](http://time.com/4579404/donald-trump-policy-video/ "undefined"), but a sentimental nostalgia for Barack Obama’s presidency has been [building for quite some time](http://fortune.com/2016/02/09/barack-obama-miss-clinton/ "undefined"). The new trailer for _Barry,_ a biographical film about Obama’s days as a student at Columbia University in the early 1980s, might help stoke it. Newcomer Devon Terrell will play the 44th President as a 20-year-old undergraduate, grappling with his identity as a mixed-race kid from Honolulu in a largely white scene. “You a whole different type of brother,” a peer tells him at one point. “You do realize that, don’t you?” “I fit in nowhere,” Terrell as Obama says later. **_(Gifts:_** [**_The 100 Most Influential Images of All Time_**](http://shop.time.com/storefront/subscribe-to-time/link/1039114.html?xid=cm-TIMEShopscTIMEArticle "undefined")**_)_** The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival earlier this year, and will begin streaming on Netflix on Dec. 16. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4579636/barry-netflix-barack-obama-devon-terrell/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4579636/barry-netflix-barack-obama-devon-terrell/"},"headline":"Watch The Trailer For Barry, Netflix's Barack Obama Biopic","datePublished":"2016-11-22T08:18:22.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T01:57:21.966Z","description":"It premieres on Netflix on Dec. 16","url":"https://time.com/4579636/barry-netflix-barack-obama-devon-terrell/","keywords":["movies","Barack Obama","Netflix"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Nash Jenkins","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/p-nash-jenkins/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[],"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/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/movies/","name":"movies"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4579636/barry-netflix-barack-obama-devon-terrell/","name":"Watch The Trailer For Barry, Netflix's Barack Obama Biopic"}}]}] ```