The Mormon Giant explores the relationship between religion and professional wrestling in the twentieth century. Focusing on wrestlers with Mormon “gimmicks,” this multimedia presentation shows how they presented as “heels” (villains) or “faces” (heroes) in auditoriums throughout North America and abroad, and how such representations proved usable (or not) to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints writ large.

The Mormon Giant narrates the “face-turn” of Mormonism in twentieth-century American popular culture, while showing also how religion and wrestling generally work together—how they shape and reflect each other—in the modern world.

Presentations of The Mormon Giant are in the form of a “live documentary,” featuring narration by David Walker and soundtracking by Timothy Albro, interacting with a filmic background (including interviews and archival footage) directed by Stephen DeBro and edited by Mayre McAnulty.