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American Cinematheque’s This Is Not A Fiction Festival is returning for its second season.

The festival launched last year with screenings of Thank You, Good Night: The Bon Jovi Story, featuring a Jon Bon Jovi Q&a and Morgan Neville’s Steve! (Martin) A Documentary in 2 Pieces.

It is now returning with a slew of new premieres, screenings and appearances from the likes of Conan O’Brien, Survivor’s Jeff Probst, Errol Morris and Documentary Now!’s Bill Hader and Fred Armisen.

The second season premiere of Max’s Conan O’Brien Must Go will kick off the event on April 9 with a Q&a with the Oscars host.

The event, which runs through April 17, will also feature a 10th anniversary screening of IFC’s Documentary Now! and Probst is hosting Tribute to Survivor: An Evening with Jeff Probst.

Morris will be honored with a retrospective that includes Gates of Heaven,...

"It's a mixture of curiosity and apprehension," said the quixotic documentary auteur Errol Morris of what will be his first-ever trip to the Oscars next month for his and Sony Pictures Classics' The Fog of War. "It hasn't yet grown into out-and-out fear." In 1988, Morris' groundbreaking documentary The Thin Blue Line was named best documentary of the year by the National Board of Review, the National Society of Film Critics and the New York Film Critics Circle. But the film failed to win an Academy Award nomination, an oversight that angered many of its champions. Now, 16 years after that big Oscar diss -- Morris docus that have also been overlooked include the critical darlings Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr. and Fast, Cheap and Out of Control -- Morris has finally been welcomed into the Academy fold. Fog is a portrait of former Secretary of State Robert McNamara, one of the architects of the Vietnam War.