1. Wrestling With Shadows
Released in 1998, Hitman Hart Wrestling with Shadows, was a remarkable documentary film which charted Bret Hart's final year and days with the WWF. Director Paul Jay managed to film all the build up to the screw job itself, including the conversation in which McMahon promises the match will end by a run in. It was also filmed backstage after the incident, in which Shawn Michaels swears he was not involved. Conveniently, Triple H is also filmed with Hart's then wife Julie, getting a stern scolding. The actual confrontation with Vince McMahon however is missed. It is a huge coincidence that a film crew just happened to be present on the night this all went down. Or is it all part of the work? Director Paul Jay claimed afterwards that McMahon tried to stop the release, but WCW offered to pay the legal costs to get the film out there, so McMahon backed down. There is no proof of this, and no records on the WCW side to suggest they offered to do this. What we do know is that it is extremely unusual for McMahon to ever allow any cameras backstage. This film was breaking ground in getting to film behind the curtain. Why would McMahon break with generations of kayfabe just for this? To help support the propaganda of the screwjob perhaps? The planning of the angle could have been thought out long in advance, Steve Austin has since said "Vince had all stories mapped out Three years in advance back then". The Montreal Screwjob. The biggest backstage incident in WWF history, that just happened to have a documentary crew backstage at the WWF for the first time. You couldn't make it up. Could you?