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 ...

Nearly three decades ago, the documentary Pumping Iron (1977) was released. Its success helped to make Arnold Schwarzenegger a household name. It also helped to mainstream the sport of bodybuilding.

Arnold Schwarzenegger encouraged the director of “Pumping Iron,” the documentary that launched him in Hollywood 25 years ago, to re-release it unedited -- including a marijuana-smoking scene. “I would ...

In the 1977 film “Pumping Iron,” Arnold Schwarzenegger famously described “the pump” − or when blood flows into your muscles ...

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 Iron ...

He worked on three Oscar winners and collaborated often with director Barbara Kopple. By Mike Barnes Senior Editor Lawrence Silk, the preeminent documentary editor who worked on Pumping Iron, Woody ...