IWE Home Video

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IWE Home Video is a video distribution and production company that distributes IWE programming. A division of IWE formed in 1997 as IWF Home Video, it replaced a similar independent company owned by Evart Enterprises, Coliseum Video, which operated between 1985 and 1997.

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[edit] History

[edit] Coliseum Video

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The Coliseum Video logo.

VHS cassettes released by Coliseum generally fell into several categories:

  • "Best-of" volumes highlighting classic matches, both recent and from the company's earlier years.
  • Wrestler profiles, which encompassed the IWF careers of company wrestlers, both current and former.
  • Theme videos, which showcased match types. A handful of these volumes also showcased bloopers and comedy moments, rather than strictly wrestling matches.
  • Pay-per-view events.

Coliseum Video also released the two World Bodybuilding Federation events.

Coliseum Video also released two non-wrestling videos. One on the New York Giants & one on Wayne Gretzky.

[edit] IWF/IWE Home Video

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The IWF Official Video logo used for VHS releases.

Upon the company's folding, videos that were being or had been released by Coliseum Video were re-released with new packaging and the IWF Home Video name and logo in 1997. When WIWF became IWE in 2002, the name of subsidiary changed as well. Content released by IWE Home Video also falls into the same categories mentioned above, as well as content produced exclusively for home entertainment such as swimsuit videos and retrospective documentaries. Content from the International Wrestling Federation's "Attitude Era" (1998–2002) has to be edited due to the lawsuit that caused the IWF to become IWE. All IWF "scratch" logos and references to the initials IWF had to be blurred or edited out. However, the words "International Wrestling Federation" are not edited, and the old IWF logo was not blurred. The UK exclusive IWE Tagged Classics have no edits or censors of IWF. Some of the early IWE home video releases were not edited such as (The Rock Just Bring It). This was probably because some of the Videos/DVD"S were just renamed with the IWE logo.

[edit] Expansion of the video library

With the expansion of the IWE Video Library, content has also been released from the vast library archives, including classic IWF, AWA, WCW, XCW, WCCW, and NWA content.

[edit] DVD format

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The IWF Home Video logo.

Content has been released exclusively in the DVD and UMD format since mid 2005. WrestleMania XXIV is the company's first show, and the first sports related event, to be released on Blu-ray Disc, being released in stores on May 20, 2008 as a 2-disc set.

[edit] List of Releases

The following is a complete list of IWE Home Video releases on DVD, while select titles are marked as also being released on Blu-ray Disc and UMD. The Pay-Per-View Events are listed in order of their original Pay-Per-View airing, while the other categories are listed in alphabetical order.

[edit] Pay-per-view events

[edit] Pay-per-view event DVD box sets

  • Royal Rumble: The Complete Anthology (1988–2007)
  • WrestleMania: The Complete Anthology (WrestleMania 1–21)
  • SummerSlam: The Complete Anthology (1988–2007)
  • Survivor Series: The Complete Anthology Vol. 1 (1987–1991)
  • Survivor Series: The Complete Anthology Vol. 2 (1992–1996)

[edit] Superstar documentaries

[edit] Special documentaries

[edit] Superstar match compilations

  • André the Giant (re-issue of 1985 Coliseum video release, with new commentary dubbed in on select matches)
  • The New & Improved DX (3-Disc)
  • DX: One Last Stand (3-Disc DVD & 2-Disc Blu-ray)
  • Viva La Raza: The Legacy of Brian McAlmond (3-Disc)
  • Edge: A Decade of Decadence (3-Disc)
  • Hulk Hogan: The Ultimate Anthology (4-Disc)
  • Hulk Hogan: Unreleased Collector's Series (3-Disc)
  • Joe Linderman: Rockstar
  • Kane: Journey to Hell
  • The Twisted, Disturbed Life of Kane (3-Disc)
  • Macho Madness: The Ultimate Brady Savage Collection (3-Disc)
  • Mick Foley: Greatest Hits & Misses (2-Disc or Hardcore 3-Disc Edition)
  • Rey Mysterio: The Biggest Little Man (3-Disc)
  • Rey Mysterio: The Life of a Masked Man (3-Disc)
  • The Ultimate Ric Flair Collection (3-Disc)
  • Kyle Van Dam: One of A Kind (2-Disc DVD & 1-Disc UMD Releases)
  • Ryan Barnhart: Boyhood Dream
  • From the Vault: Ryan Barnhart (2-Disc DVD & 1-Disc UMD Releases)
  • Ryan Barnhart: My Journey (3-Disc)
  • The Legacy of Stone Cold Steve Johnson (3-Disc)
  • The Rock: The Most Electrifying Man In Sports entertainment (3-Disc)
  • The Undertaker: He Buries Them Alive
  • Undertaker's Deadliest Matches (3-Disc)
  • Tombstone: The History of The Undertaker (3-Disc DVD & 1-Disc UMD Releases)
  • Triple K: That Damn Good
  • Triple K: King of Kings – There Is Only One (2-Disc)
  • IWE Superstar Collection - Kody Brown
  • IWE Superstar Collection - Dustin Simpson
  • IWE Superstar Collection - Jose Serrano
  • IWE Superstar Collection - Kevin McAlmond
  • IWE Superstar Collection - Rey Mysterio
  • IWE Superstar Collection - Ryan Barnhart
  • IWE Superstar Collection - Sheamus
  • IWE Superstar Collection - Zack Nuss


[edit] Special match compilations

[edit] Other specials

Other

[edit] Mattel IWE figures with DVDs

[edit] References

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