William Shatner: You Can Call Me Bill

William Shatner: You Can Call Me Bill is a documentary portrait of the actor behind characters such as Captain Kirk, T.J. Hooker and Denny Crane. Now in his nineties, Shatner is shown reflecting on a career that has spanned roughly seven decades on stage and screen, and the film sets out to look past the many roles he has played toward the person underneath them. Alexandre O. Philippe directs and wrote the screenplay, and the interview segments are conducted by Philippe himself, whose voice is heard while Shatner appears as himself.

The film was made by Legion M and Exhibit A Pictures as a United States production, running 96 minutes. It was released in March 2024. As a documentary built around a single subject, it does not rely on a large cast: Shatner carries the screen, with the director supplying the questions. Philippe's earlier work includes a study of the origins of Alien, released in 2019, and this film sits second among the four features he has directed, arriving before Chain Reactions in 2025 and Kim Novak's Vertigo in 2026. That sequence shows a filmmaker who has returned repeatedly to figures and films of Hollywood's past.

Audience response has been modest so far. On TMDB it holds a rating of 6.1 out of 10, based on a small number of votes, which suggests a limited viewership rather than a widely seen release.