Chronicling Kayfabe: How Pro Wrestling Documentaries (Attempt to) Separate Fact From Fiction

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Widely regarded by many as the greatest wrestling documentary, Hitman Hart: Wrestling With Shadows got a 25th-anniversary re-release that features new commentary from Dave Meltzer and Bret Hart. The splashy look of today’s wrestling documentaries are a far cry from the subgenre’s cinéma vérité origins. Many of the earliest wrestling documentaries were produced for public television, short films about the territories in places like Portland or Quebec—even Hitman Hart: Wrestling With Shadows was produced with Canadian state funding. Nowadays, the most high-profile wrestling documentaries overlap with the true crime subgenre, or at least attempt to market to that audience. “Like everything in wrestling, documentary film gets all chewed up and becomes another layer of promotion.
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