DVD; Dolby digital stereo.; dual-layer format; NTSC, region 1.

Soundtrack in English, with optional English subtitles for the hearing impaired or French subtitles.

Interviewees include: Tony Maietta, Jeffrey Vance, Leonard Maltin, Samuel Goldwyn, Jr., A. Scott Berg, Carla Laemmle, Daniel Selznick, Peter Bogdanovich, Richard D. Zanuck, Gore Vidal.

Editor, Sergio Palmero ; writer, John Wilkman ; photographed by Neal Brown, Neal Smith ; narrator, Christopher Plummer ; executive producer, Bill Haber.

Originally broadcast as a television documentary in 2010.

Booklet is attached inside container.

The American movie business started as peepshows and grew into a near-mythical art form that used an exciting new technology to create drama, laughter and adventure literally bigger than life. Here is the whole story -- the glamour and the sweat, the collaborations and the conflicts, the careers that skyrocketed and the dreams that crashed -- in the biggest production ever from Turner Classic Movies, the leading authority on classic movies and film history. Seven enthralling hours of movie clips, rare footage, interviews and keen insight from Hollywood insiders and historians trace moviemaking from its humble beginnings through the Golden Age to the New Hollywood of the '60s. It's a saga as exciting as any that ever appeared on the silver screen.--Container.

Disc 1. Episode 1. Peepshow pioneers (1889-1907) -- Episode 2. The birth of Hollywood (1907-1920) ; Disc 2. Episode 3. The dream merchants (1920-1928) -- Episode 4. Brother, can you spare a dream? (1929-1941) -- Episode 5. Warriors and peacemakers (1941-1950) ; Disc 3. Episode 6. The attack of the small screens (1950-1960) -- Episode 7. Fade out, fade in (1960-1969) ; Special features : More reflections on Hollywood history by producer/writer Jon Wilkman and historians in conjunction with each episode (ca. 1 hr.).

Special features include: panel discussions.