In the 1970s, a new generation of directors transformed the film industry with personal, political and sexually charged films that spoke to a hipper, more youthful audience ignored by the Old Hollywood. This documentary recalls this brief and shining era in film history. Interviews with such luminaries as Peter Bogdanovich, William Friedkin, Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, and Dennis Hopper are interspersed with illustrative clips from such films as Easy Rider. Contemporary filmmakers are interviewed to examine the films of the 1970s and how they changed filmmaking.
