10 Best Wrestling Documentaries Ever

The presence of Paul Heyman is perhaps missed in Jeremy Borash's unofficial ECW documentary, although there are one or two faces who didn't feature for whatever reason in its WWE counterpart - so, you know, swings and roundabouts.

Remarkably, Forever Harcore succeeds in taking viewers behind the ECW curtain despite not showing a single piece of footage from the promotion's hey-day. Without the rights to the library, Borash relies instead on lengthy, in-depth interviews with some of its most recognisable cast members, interspersed every now and then with the odd still photograph to disguise the edits.

It's raw, it's real, and those sat in front of the camera seem noticeably more relaxed and candid than they might were they under the watchful eye of Vince McMahon and a WWE production crew. They tell it like it was, to viewers who they know already have some baseline knowledge of the wrestling world.

If you can't live without match footage, then you should probably give it a miss - but, perhaps with a few sittings (it's a full two hours long) it is a hugely informative and, in places, very entertaining too.