Barack & Michelle Obama Make Their Hollywood Debut With Netflix Documentary 'American Factory'

Netflix is growing by leaps and bounds. From introducing kickass Indian content to now getting America's powerful couple on-board, the OTT platform surely has their game on point. Yes, the digital medium has collaborated with Barack and Michelle Obama for a documentary that is compelling and the need of the hour.?

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The duo has made their Hollywood debut in American Factory. It's a story of what happened when a Chinese company took over an abandoned General Motors plant. This is the first product of a multi-year collaboration between Netflix and Higher Ground, the production company formed last year by the former U.S. President and First Lady.

“A good story gives you the chance to better understand someone else’s life. It can help you find common ground. And its why Michelle and I were drawn to Higher Grounds first film,” Obama said in a Twitter posting on Wednesday.

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The documentary traces the lives of thousands of workers laid off from their auto jobs in Moraine, Ohio, in the 2008 recession, some of whom were hired six years later by Chinese company Fuyao Glass America to make automotive glass in the same plant.

“We want people to be able to get outside of themselves and experience and understand the lives of somebody else,” Obama told filmmakers Julia Reichert and Steven Bognar in a promotional video released by Netflix.

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Michelle Obama told the filmmakers she was particularly struck by the opening scenes of workers on the factory floor. “That was my background, that was my father,” she said.

“One of the many things I love about this film... is that you let people tell their own story. “American Factory doesn’t come in with a perspective; its not an editorial.”

Watch the trailer right here,