Hooked: Muscle Women (2008)

Country

United States

How it feels

This documentary looks at women bodybuilders. It shows their training and their lives. The film explores what drives them to compete in a sport that challenges traditional ideas about femininity.

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What happens

MS NOW Films (formerly MSNBC Films) is a unit of MS NOW which produces documentaries, and a division of Versant. It originally began as MSNBC Documentaries, an umbrella title of a series of documentaries co-produced by NBC News and MSNBC. Compared to competing networks, MS NOW airs documentaries on a daily basis and on weekend afternoons and evenings. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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