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 ...

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 ...

"Pumping Iron"by David Brancaccio and The Econ Extra Credit Team It has been many decades since I first watched “Pumping Iron,” and this time around I was all set to ask myself in bewilderment, “This ...

George Butler, an adventurous filmmaker who deftly explored the subculture of bodybuilding in “Pumping Iron,” a documentary with the then little-known Arnold Schwarzenegger as its charismatic center, ...

The recently released Netflix documentary about Arnold Schwarzenegger — simply titled “Arnold” — is in three parts. The middle installment is named “Actor” and centers around his time making iconic ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Documentary filmmaker George Butler, whose 1977 film “Pumping Iron” ignited a fitness revolution and propelled Austrian ...

In his photographs for the book “Pumping Iron” and his documentary of the same name, Mr. Butler helped set Arnold Schwarzenegger on the road to stardom. By Richard Sandomir George Butler, an ...