Faded Glory, The Von Erich Story is a documentary that was created, produced, and directed by Rusty Baker while attending Radio/Television/Film school at the University of North Texas in 1999. The documentary contains original video from Von Erich, The Legend Lives On, which produced during a documentary workshop case at UNT in 1997. Once Fritz Von Erich died, Rusty Baker and Kevin Von Erich agreed to make Faded Glory as a tribute to Fritz and his legacy. The video also contains many of the Von Erich family's personal home movies and wrestling footage, which was all used with permission of Kevin Von Erich. Original wrestling commentator Bill Mercer, who also taught at UNT's RTVF Department, agreed to serve as the video's narrator.

The documentary was shown at the 1999 Dallas Video Festival, USA Film Festival, and Fort Worth Film Festival. Kevin and Rusty would appear at each festival and answer questions from the audience. Faded Glory aired multiple times on Dallas/Fort Worth's PBS station KERA, garnering some of the station's best ratings in decades. It was also the first featurelength documentary to be featured on Mark Cuban's Broadcast.com.

The documentary was never allowed to be profitable due to the amount of licensed music heard in the background of several wrestling clips. As a 'student project,' the video could only be shown at festivals, air on public access or be shown on the internet, which at the time was vastly unregulated. Later, many people would take aired recordings of Faded Glory and upload them to YouTube and other social media platforms. This is the first time the video has been shown with permission of the copyright holder, Rusty Baker.

Not long after the documentary finished its film festival circuit, Baker would return to the Marine Corps as a combat correspondent in support of operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom. He never looked back at his film career until retiring as a sergeant major in 2015. Baker now documents his family's life of autism on their YouTube channel, Picking Up the Pieces of Us.