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 TCM, the world’s prestige source for films and film history. This volume contains one of 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.