‘Untold: Raygun Breaking Badly’ Release Date, Time, Where to Watch and What to Expect

Netflix’s sports documentary strand is turning its attention to one of the most talked about moments of the 2024 Paris Olympics. ‘Untold Raygun Breaking Badly’ revisits the story of Australian breaker Rachael Gunn, better known online as Raygun, and the viral routine that turned her into a global talking point almost overnight.

The film arrives as the second entry in the latest volume of ‘Untold’, following a franchise pattern of clustering standalone sports stories into a single rollout window. Here is what has been confirmed so far about the release, the streaming details, and what the documentary is expected to cover.

‘Untold: Raygun Breaking’ Badly Release Date and Time

‘Untold: Raygun Breaking Badly’ is set to premiere globally on Netflix on September 1. The film lands on the platform on Tuesday, September 1. It is directed by brothers Chapman Way and Maclain Way, the filmmaking duo behind Netflix’s Wild Wild Country, who have overseen much of the ‘Untold’ banner across its run.

Netflix has not published an official rollout time for this specific film, though the pattern set by other entries in this volume offers a reliable guide. Like most other Netflix titles, new installments in this run of ‘Untold’ tend to land at 3 a.m. ET, which lines up with 12 a.m. PT, a timing standard that lets subscribers across different time zones access new titles at roughly the same overnight window.

The documentary is part of a three week rollout for the ‘Untold’ strand, which is delivering three standalone sports stories in succession. The season returned on August 25 with ‘Untold The Testimony of Vince Young’, covering the college football legend, before ‘Raygun Breaking Badly’ follows on September 1, and ‘Untold Mr T I Pity The Fool’ closes out the run on September 8. This marks the second Australian focused ‘Untold’ episode since 2022’s ‘Race of the Century’, which featured former prime minister Bob Hawke’s final interview.

Where to Watch ‘Untold: Raygun Breaking Badly’

The documentary is a Netflix original and will be available exclusively through the streaming service once it drops. The production companies behind the film are Stardust Frames Production and Warner Bros. International Television Production Australia. Netflix’s official listing for the title describes it as following Raygun from Australian academic to global meme, recounting her offbeat path to the Olympic stage and the infamy that followed.

Based on other entries from earlier in this volume of ‘Untold’, which have run between 70 and 85 minutes, the Raygun installment is expected to land in similar feature documentary territory rather than stretching into a multi part series. That format keeps it in line with the standalone structure Netflix has used for other recent ‘Untold’ subjects.

What ‘Untold: Raygun Breaking Badly’ Will Cover

The film takes viewers inside the rise, fall, and reinvention of Rachael Gunn, described as a polarizing figure who ignited a global firestorm following her 2024 Olympic debut. As her performance at the Games went viral overnight, so did an avalanche of memes, misinformation, and conspiracy theories questioning how she ever qualified to compete in the first place.

Gunn competed at the 2024 Paris Games on August 9 at Place de la Concorde, facing competitors from the United States, France and Lithuania across three rounds, and did not earn any points in the newly introduced breaking category. The film follows her path from academic and breaking enthusiast to Australia’s Olympic representative in Paris, then moves into the scrutiny that followed once her routine went viral for reasons she never anticipated.

A trailer has already given a preview of the documentary’s tone, opening with Gunn recalling a conversation with her therapist ahead of the Games. Asked what the worst outcome could be, she remembers answering that the whole world might laugh at her, a fear her therapist dismissed as unreasonable before it played out almost exactly that way. Elsewhere in the trailer, Gunn describes herself candidly as a dorky academic who is also a competitive B-girl, and admits she initially enjoyed the early wave of memes before the attention grew overwhelming.

The trailer positions the project as both a sports documentary and a media aftermath story, tracking how a single Olympic performance moved from competition coverage into global pop culture almost overnight. The documentary includes input from Gunn’s parents, alongside other figures close to her during the period.

The Fallout That Shaped Raygun’s Story

The real world consequences of the viral moment extended well beyond the internet. In late 2024, a planned trial performance of a stage show referencing Raygun was cancelled after Gunn’s legal team sent letters disputing the use of her name and her signature kangaroo dance move, both of which her team claimed as intellectual property. Gunn also left her position at a university’s Faculty of Arts earlier this year, taking a voluntary redundancy amid wider cuts to the department.

For Australian viewers in particular, the documentary arrives after one of the most widely discussed local sports stories to come out of the Paris Games, one that sparked debate about how a niche sporting pathway became a global flashpoint. The bigger question hanging over the release is whether Gunn’s own account shifts public perception of the episode or simply cements the meme narrative that has followed her for two years.

With the film’s global arrival now locked in for September 1, viewers will finally get Raygun’s own telling of the routine, the backlash, and everything that came after, and it is worth wondering whether her side of the story changes how people remember that night in Paris.