US film maker Michael Moore says his film is 'beginning of the end' for Trump

US filmmaker Michael Moore says he hopes his new documentary would mark “the beginning of the end” for Donald Trump’s presidency.

Moore, who is also an author and activist, said Thursday that “Fahrenheit 11/9,” was “a siren call” to what he called a “despairing, dispirited public.”

The documentary got its world premiere at the Toronto film festival on Thursday.

“This film is the moment of truth we’ve all needed for some time, and I believe its release in theaters nationwide on September 21 may well be the real beginning of the end for Donald J. Trump,” Moore wrote on his website.

Moore said the new film looks at the reasons why Americans elected the businessman and former reality TV star to the White House in 2016 and “also (to) help show us the way out.”

Moore, who won an Oscar in 2003 for his gun violence documentary “Bowling for Columbine,” also called his new film a “story of hope,” and urged voters to turn out for the November midterm congressional elections.

A trailer for the political documentary shows clips of mass shootings in schools, white supremacist protests, footage of Trump’s public speeches, and interviews with ordinary Americans.

It has the tagline, “This is the movie that will end the insanity.”

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The film spends a chunk of time comparing Trump with German Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, including a scene in which Moore pairs audio from a Trump speech with video of the Nazi leader at a rally.

In an interview with The Washington Post, Moore said, “Trump is not Hitler and Hitler is not Trump. But then, you can’t say that fascism doesn’t teach us lessons, that there aren't parallels we can draw."

It follows Moore’s one-man show on Broadway last year in which he used his satirical blend of humor to target Trump and encourage liberals to turn resentment at the Republican political agenda into resistance.

The film’s title ‘Fahrenheit 11/9” refers to November 9, 2016, the date that Trump's won in the 2016 US presidential election and was officially declared the victor over Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton.

It is also callback to Moore’s scathing 2004 documentary “Fahrenheit 9/11” about the September 11 2001 terror attacks and the subsequent US led wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

The documentary premiered the same week that the New York Times printed an opinion column in which the anonymous writer described “a quiet resistance” to Trump within his own administration, and advance excerpts of a new book by journalist Bob Woodward portraying Trump as prone to impulsive decision-making.

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