It is an extended theatrical version of Marcoccia's television documentary Shut Him Down: The Rise of Jordan Peterson which was broadcast in 2018 as an episode of CBC Docs POV.

[3] This changed in 2016 when Peterson posted a video on YouTube criticizing political correctness and Bill C-16, which went viral and led to his rise to prominence and as a "lightning rod for controversy".

[2] Marcoccia recalled: "If the order of events had been switched around and I had just heard about him through this controversy around him criticizing Bill C-16 and pronouns and political correctness, it probably wouldn't have been the story that I would've been chasing.

[3] The Rise of Jordan Peterson is an extended theatrical version of Marcoccia's documentary Shut Him Down, which aired on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) Docs POV in 2018.

One segment involved an interview with an anonymous private investigator who had started to collect evidence against Peterson in a case that was to be brought to the International Human Rights Tribunal.