You might expect a documentary about a women`s weightlifting competition to be not much more than a freak show. But the surprising strength of ”Pumping Iron II: The Women” comes from the very ...

Arnold Schwarzenegger 's name is synonymous with the sport of bodybuilding, so it only fits that The Terminator star will make his first appearance in a bodybuilding documentary in more than 35 ...

Filmmaker Vlad Yudin has brought to life a revived version "Pumping Iron," titled “Generation Iron,” in an effort to shed light on what today’s champions go through.

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 ...

The documentary filmmaker was best known for helping introduce Arnold Schwarzenegger to Hollywood. By Abbey White, Trilby Beresford George Butler, the British documentarian best known for Pumping ...

With Generation Iron, Russian-born writer-director Vlad Yudin has made a sort of remake of Pumping Iron, bringing back many of the principals for cameo appearances as he chronicles the run-up to ...

George Tyssen Butler, a documentary filmmaker best known for co-directing the 1977 feature “Pumping Iron,” died on Oct. 21 of pneumonia at his home in New Hampshire. He was 78 years old.

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Baltz said. "I have no wife, no kids, no house payment. I looked at all those old guys, and I said, ‘I'm not gonna end up like that.' "I walked off the job, and that was 37 years ago ...