Bret Hart: Survival of the Hitman (2010)

Original title

Survival Of The Hitman

Genre

documentary film

Country

Canada

Runtime

1h 24m

Rated

pg

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary follows professional wrestler Bret Hart as he prepares to return to the ring at WrestleMania XXVI after a ten year absence due to a concussion. It covers his rise to fame and his split with the World Wrestling Federation in 1997 through interviews with Hart, his family, and other wrestling figures.

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What happens

Bret Hart: Survival of the Hitman also known as just Survival of the Hitman is a 2010 television documentary film chronicling Canadian professional wrestler Bret Hart's life as he prepared for his in-ring return at WrestleMania XXVI after a ten-year absence from the ring after a career ending concussion. It also covers the rise of Hart's career and his split with World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE) in 1997. It is a Fight Network original documentary and first aired March 22, 2010. The documentary was produced by John Pollock, Jorge Barbosa and Wai Ting. The documentary features interviews with Bret, members of Hart's family, former head of WWE Canada Carl De Marco, former sports agent Gord Kirke and producer of Wrestling with Shadows, Paul Jay. It also features archive footage of wrestlers, Dynamite Kid, Bad News Allen, Curt Hennig and Ric Flair. It is the third documentary about Bret Hart, the first being Hitman Hart: Wrestling with Shadows in 1998 which chronicles Hart's last days wrestling in the WWF and the second Bret "Hit Man" Hart: The Best There Is, the Best There Was, the Best There Ever Will Be in 2005 which is a DVD released by WWE Home Video. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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