The documentary tells the history of Hollywood pioneers making movies. This documentary features living relatives of Hollywood studio heads and film historians talking about the history of movies. The relatives of the moguls in the documentary include
Samuel Goldwyn Jr., son of
Samuel Goldwyn,
Carla Laemmle, niece of
Carl Laemmle, owner of
Universal Pictures. This documentary tells the story of Hollywood from the late 19th century-the early 1970s. It starts off as telling the story of the early movie pioneers who came to America and would make a future making movies, the coming of sound movies,
World War II, censorship, and Hollywood changing in the 1960s.
The mini-series was nominated for three
Primetime Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Nonfiction Series, Outstanding Writing for Nonfiction Programming, and Outstanding Voice-over Performance for
Christopher Plummer's narration.[1]