This month for our “Econ Extra Credit” segment, we’re watching the 1977 documentary “Pumping Iron,” featuring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Lou Ferrigno. The film did a lot to pull the sport of ...

I was never an athlete. Or at least I never thought of myself as one. If you were a boy in Queens when I was growing up, only one thing mattered: how good you were at softball. I stunk. I couldn’t hit ...

Documentary filmmaker George Butler, whose 1977 film “Pumping Iron” ignited a fitness revolution and propelled Austrian bodybuilder Arnold Schwarzenegger to Hollywood stardom and ultimately to ...

Before Arnold Schwarzenegger was “The Terminator,” before he served as California's governor, and way before he had a secret love child, Arnold was a bodybuilder. America first met Schwarzenegger in ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Forty-four years ago, bodybuilding wasn’t much more than just a marginal underground subculture—an ...

'Pumping Iron' introduced the world to Mr. Universe himself, Arnold Schwarzenegger. Curl up and arm yourself with some little-known secrets about this benchmark of a movie. It’s important to note that ...

Publishing and movie executives in New York City and Hollywood were skeptical to the point of being dismissive about George Butler’s first big project — a book and a movie in the 1970s about Arnold ...

LOS ANGELES – In 1977, the breakthrough docudrama “Pumping Iron” not only catapulted Arnold Schwarzenegger into the public eye, but it also broke down much of the mystery surrounding the lives of the ...

George Butler, filmmaker known for the bodybuilding documentary “Pumping Iron” about the 1975 Mr. Olympia competition between Arnold Schwarzenegger and future “Incredible Hulk” star Lou Ferrigno, has ...

Documentary filmmaker George Butler, best known for his 1977 film Pumping Iron that raised Austrian bodybuilder Arnold Schwarzenegger to Hollywood prominence, died of pneumonia Oct. 21 at home in New ...