Movies: Bodybuilding

A look into the intense workouts that built the six-time Mr. Olympia, Dorian Yates. At 300 lbs, Dorian re-defined the professional bodybuilder, and this workout documentary shows how he did it....

The world of female bodybuilding provides the backdrop for this tale of an aspiring young actress who initially becomes interested in the sport as a means of self-defense following a physical attack by two men, but then finds that while concentrating...

Richard Fontaine and Bob Miser started the current exploration of the male nude in film and photography. The two shared ideas props and models and reinvented some of the sexual icons that we all still recognise today. The gladiator the sailor, the co...

Documentary about bodybuilding’s rise in the Persian regions, feat. 2022 Mr Olympia Hadi Choopan....

In the 1990s, Lee Priest was once a young, extremely talented, and promising professional bodybuilder heading straight for champion status and success. He was also an outspoken and blunt personality that broke many of the rules set by the professiona...

During his waking hours, Kais is in his bed or mobility device, completely dependent on his devoted family for round-the-clock care. At night, he dreams of himself as a manga character, starring in a story of love and bravery that mirrors the selfles...

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An obsessed bodybuilder who struggles with personal demons and his family’s lack of belief soon learns that achieving perfection is all he has left....

Bodybuilding is the pure narcissism. While the runner struggles against time and the weightlifter struggles with the weights, the bodybuilder only has his mirror. Exercise programs, diets and hours and hours in a training room are only the outside of...

From adoption and homelessness to navigating relationships and overcoming self-harm, the four transmen in MAN MADE all have something else in common: they are all bodybuilders. Through the lens of FTMFitCon, the world’s only FTM bodybuilding competit...

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Scott Castle served in the U.S. Marine Corps for four years. While assigned to 1st Battalion, 5th Marines, 1st Marine Division he served three combat tours in Iraq, including the First and Second Battles of Fallujah....

Joe wants to be a muscle man....

Documentary about a man who starts bodybuilding to start anew and make his sons proud of him....

A 64 year old cardboard collecting grandmother and a Brazilian bodybuilder reveal the identity of Macau through the pointillist minutiae of their life experience, emotional strength, and driving passions....

In Swole I continue to document my commitment to an intensive and transformative gym and diet regimen, as well as the communities that form around such activities, sustaining themselves through texting and sharing videos and photos on social media. I...

Tash and Kylene are two Indigenous women with a dream to make it to the Arnolds – an amateur bodybuilding competition being held in Australia for the first time....

Drew, a young man bullied and abused throughout his life, aspires to be a body builder, but can't quite achieve his goals. His sanity ends when his girlfriend leaves him for being too much of a health fanatic, and he's beaten up and bullied just one ...

A tremendous feature-length look at the 2001 battle before the Olympia has the contestants demonstrating their most taxing routines and poses. Featured performers: Jay Cutler: Shoulders, Triceps; Claude Groulx: Back, Shoulders; Darrem Charles: Should...