Untold: The Liver King (2025)

Directed by

Joe Pearlman

Genre

documentary

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 08m

Rated

R

Rating

6.0 of 10 from 37 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary follows Brian Johnson, a fitness influencer who became famous for promoting a raw organ meat diet and an ancestral lifestyle. It shows how his internet fame grew quickly and then what happened after he admitted to using steroids, revealing the gap between his public image and his private reality.

shockingexposingcautionarytenseconfrontationalrevelatoryunsettlingintrospective

What happens

Untold: The Liver King is a 2025 American sports documentary film directed by Joe Pearlman. It was released on Netflix on May 13, 2025 as the second installment of Volume 5 in the Untold series. The film follows Brian “The Liver King” Johnson, a fitness influencer known for promoting an “ancestral” lifestyle centered on eating raw organ meat. It explores his rapid rise to internet fame and the fallout from his public admission of steroid use, revealing the disconnect between his online persona and real life. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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