New Netflix Movies, TV And Originals For August: Donald Trump [Sort Of], ‘The Get Down’ From Baz Luhrmann, And More


Netflix gets fans through the summer with a new slate of movies, TV, and original series and specials in August that features one of the most anticipated new originals in Netflix history — a series from one of the most visually stylish film directors working today, making his first foray into series television.

Baz Luhrmann, the 53-year-old Australian director of The Great Gatsby, Moulin Rouge, and Romeo+Juliet, takes a trip back in time to the Bronx, New York, in the 1970s with his series The Get Down. The gritty series explores the beginnings of disco music and hip-hop in one of New York’s toughest, most dangerous neighborhoods.

Netflix this week released a new trailer for The Get Down, which can be viewed below. All six episodes of Part One of the first season of The Get Down goes online on Netflix starting August 12.

Comedian Will Ferrell’s Funny or Die project also debuts a new original special in August, and timely one — the political satire Funny or Die Presents: Donald Trump’s The Art of the Deal: The Movie, aiming its sharp wit at the Republican nominee for president, premiering on Netflix August 1.

And for fans of action movies, Netflix rewinds back to the early 2000s for the very first entry in the Fast and the Furious film franchise, starring the late Paul Walker as well as Vin Diesel. The fourth entry, Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, also goes on Netflix August 1.

Here is the full list of new movies, TV shows, and originals coming to Netflix in August 2016.

August 1

The American Side (2016)
An Inconvenient Truth (2006)
APEX: The Story of The Hypercar (2016)
Beethoven’s Christmas Adventure (2011)
Big Daddy (1999)
Black Widow (1987)
Critical Condition (1987)
Deadfall (2012)
Destination: Team USA (2016)
Funny or Die Presents: Donald Trump’s The Art of the Deal: The Movie (Netflix Exclusive)
The Family Man (2000)
The Fast and the Furious (2001)
The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006)
Final Destination 3 (2006)
From the Terrace (1960)
Holding the Man (2015) (Netflix Exclusive)
How to Win the US Presidency (2016)
In the Shadow of the Moon (2007)
ISIS: Women Unveiled (2016)
Masha and the Bear: Season 2 (Netflix Exclusive)
Memoria (2015)
The Naked Prey (1966)
NCIS: Season 13
Pay It Forward (2000)
The Real Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003)
Roseanne Collection: Collection 3
Sleepy Hollow (1999)
Sliding Doors (1998)
Star Trek: Nemesis (2002)
Teacher’s Pet (1958)
The Verdict (1982)
The Wedding Planner (2001)
What Women Want (2000)
Young@Heart (2007)
Zack and Miri Make a Porno (2008)

August 3

Beat Bugs: Season 1 (Netflix Original)

August 5

David Cross: Making America Great Again (2016) (Netflix Original)
Ever After High: Epic Winter (Netflix Original)
The Little Prince (2016) (Netflix Original)
Punk’s Dead: SLC Punk 2 (2016)
Slow TV: National Firewood Evening (2016)
Slow TV: National Firewood Morning (2016)
Slow TV: National Firewood Night (2016)
Slow TV: National Knitting Evening (2016)
Slow TV: National Knitting Morning (2016)
Slow TV: National Knitting Night (2016)
Slow TV: Northern Passage (2016)
Slow TV: Northern Railway (2016)
Slow TV: Salmon Fishing (2016)
Slow TV: The Telemark Canal (2016)
Slow TV: Train Ride Bergen to Oslo (2016)

August 6

The Confirmation (2016)

August 9

Real Husbands of Hollywood: Season 4
Trex (2015)

August 10

St. Vincent (2014)

August 11

Flight of the Butterflies (2012)
No Country for Old Men (2007)

August 12

Ask the StoryBots: Season 1 (Netflix Original)
The Get Down: Part 1 (Netflix Original)
Project Mc: Season 2 (Netflix Original)

August 13

13 Cameras (2016)


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August 15

Louis CK: Live at The Comedy Store (2015)

August 16

Let’s Go to Prison (2006)
Our Last Tango (2015)

August 17

The Curse of Sleeping Beauty (2016)
The Last Heist (2016)
Puffin Rock: Season 2 (Netflix Original)

Available August 19

Bottersnikes and Gumbles: Season 1 (Netflix Original)
Fearless: Season 1 (Netflix Original)
I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead: (Netflix Original)

Available August 21

Maz Jobrani: I’m Not a Terrorist, But I’ve Played One On TV (2015)

Available August 22

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: The Seventeenth Year

Available August 23

Septembers of Shiraz (2015)

Available August 25

The Road (2009)

Available August 26

Blue Is the Warmest Color (2013)
Dawn of The Croods: Season 2 (Netflix Original)
Glitter Force: Season 2 (Netflix Original)
Jeff Foxworthy and Larry the Cable Guy: We’ve Been Thinking… (Netflix Original)
Once Upon a Time: Season 5
XOXO (2016) (Netflix Original)

Available August 27

Rams (2015)

Available August 29

The State of Marriage (2015)

Available August 31

Ku’damm 56: Season 1

Netflix also announced this week that it has acquired the exclusive streaming rights to the acclaimed miniseries The People Vs. O.J. Simpson.

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