Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan is a 2006 mockumentary comedy film directed by Larry Charles and starring Sacha Baron Cohen. Baron Cohen stars as Borat Sagdiyev, a fictitious Kazakh journalist who travels through the United States to make a documentary which features real-life interactions with Americans. Much of the film features unscripted vignettes of Borat interviewing and interacting with real-life Americans who believe he is a foreigner with little or no understanding of American customs. It is the second of four films built around Baron Cohen's characters from
Da Ali G Show (2000–2004): the first,
Ali G Indahouse, was released in 2002, and featured a cameo by Borat; the third,
Brüno, was released in 2009. A sequel to
Borat,
Borat Subsequent Moviefilm, was released in 2020.