It was a way to look at these stories without any of the slickness, nor the corporate ass-covering, that comes from the usual WWE-approved documentaries.
The recent release of The Iron Claw raised the possibility of a new kind of pro wrestling movie, and here's some new ones that we'd love to see.
Around the start of the fifth season of Vice’s wrestling series Dark Side of the Ring this spring, I was ready to declare that the series had run its course.
20 years ago this month saw the arrival of a prominent documentary that was produced outside the auspices of WWE. And it was directed by a guy best known as a comedy writer.
It's normally a hacky device for a biography to take the position that "this isn't really about its subject- it's actually about America," but 'Ringmaster: Vince McMahon and the Unmaking of America' somehow pulls it off.
Netflix’s six-part Mr. McMahon documentary is unlike any pro wrestling documentary in recent memory and a worthy addition.
