Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (or simply Borat) is a 2006 mockumentary comedy film directed by Larry Charles and starring Sacha Baron Cohen. Baron Cohen stars as Borat Sagdiyev, a fictitious Kazakhstani 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; and the sequel to "Borat", "Borat Subsequent Moviefilm", was released in 2020.