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Documentaries

So hockey aside, I don't know how big a sports nut you are, but I thought I'd put this to you and the board.  I was on ESPN's website and looking over the upcoming 30 for 30 series.  Essentially the series in theory was to do 30 documentaries of events that happened sports in the 30 years of I guess what you can call The TV Era or the Boomer Era (1980-2010) produced and/or directed by known celebrity personalities.  Some were terrific (The Two Escobars, The U), some were surprisingly better than I thought (Pony Express, June 17, 1994) and some were big let downs (Silly Little Games, King's Ransom - Berg made the Gretzky Trade a complete bore).
So, my question for you and the board is:  if you were going to do 10 documentaries on wrestling, whether a bio, an event, a territory/promotion, and you had access to footage and contact with particular wrestling personalities past and present, and feel you could do it way better without WWE revisionist history, and not do something cliche or done to death, what would you like to see?
Off the top of my head I can think of:
The Superstar Billy Graham story
The Rise and Fall of Jim Crockett Promotions
The Murder of Bruiser Brody
The Hot Stuff Eddie Gilbert Story
AJPW vs NJPW
Maybe everyone else can come up with more.

I'd combine the two already great World Class documentaries, strip away any of the biases involved, and do the ultimate no-bullshit telling of the story because it really is stranger than anything Hollywood could possibly dream up.