Netflix's ‘Trainwreck’ documentary series has released a new instalment on 8 July 2025. Netflix has announced that this summer, the ‘Trainwreck’ series will have 8 more instalments, which will include everything, from disastrous festivals to political scandals to media hoaxes to cult-like corporations and reality TV disasters.
But do you know that the latest release from the series is focused on this wild event that took place in 2012 at the birthday party of a teenager, which was so chaotic that it got adapted into a Netflix documentary?
Continue reading to know everything about this event.
The true story behind ‘Trainwreck: The Real Project X’
Back in 2012, a teenage girl from a small Netherlands town, Haren, organised a Facebook event for her sixteenth birthday, and instead of setting it to private, she accidentally set it to public. In no time, the birthday invitation goes viral, and strangers start sharing it, rebranding it as ‘Project X Haren’, which is a 2012 teen comedy movie where a house party spirals into chaos. This is where the chaos begins. Thinking that it would be a fun event, thousands of teenagers across the Netherlands, who came across the Facebook invitation for the birthday party, decided to show up in Haren, expecting to have a great time at the party.
Although there were a lot of talks, since the invitation went viral, the Netherlands government didn’t lay out a clear plan, and no arrangements were made for the venue of the party or to entertain the teenagers because of which the mood of the teenagers shifted from happy to angry, creating a full-blown riot, eventually turning the town into the hotspot of unrest. In the end, what started as a sweet sixteenth birthday party turned into wild chaos, leading to police intervention and arrests.
This episode of the documentary was scheduled to be released on July 8, 2025, Tuesday on Netflix. Continue reading to find out the releasing dates of the upcoming three docuseries.
About Netflix's ‘Trainwreck’ documentary series
Netflix launched its ‘Trainwreck’ documentary series by releasing the first instalment in 2022, which was based on the infamous Woodstock '99 Festival’. This summer, Netflix announced eight (8) more instalments, a few of which have already released and some are about to release in the month of July, 2025.
Let's take a look at the remaining instalments in this docuseries, which will be released this month. Notably, this documentary series is worth a watch; so hurry and add them to your OTT watchlist. It is worth mentioning that these documentaries highlight most gripping, bizarre, and horrifying events that once dominated the mainstream media.
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Trainwreck: The Astroworld Tragedy - 10 June 2025
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Trainwreck: Mayor of Mayhem - 17 June 2025
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Trainwreck: Poop Cruise - 24 June 2025
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Trainwreck: The Cult of American Apparel - 1 July 2025
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Trainwreck: The Real Project X - 8 July 2025
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Trainwreck: Balloon Boy - 15 July 2025
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Trainwreck: P.I. Moms - 22 July 2025
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Trainwreck: Storm Area 51 - 29 July 2025
This Netflix docuseries, which takes inspiration from real-life events that make it to the headlines of the mainstream media, might take creative liberties with character development and dialogue and also features fictional characters, but it still stays true to the core of the event by involving actual footage and interviews of real people. So, if you are curious about the backstory of popular real-life events, but don’t want to watch boring and detailed documentaries, then this Netflix docuseries is exactly what you are looking for.