 This documentary was broadcast on the Turner Classic Movies (TCM) cable channel to kick off the presentation of films related to TCM s theme of the month for September 2001. Actors  Lee Grant (I)  (qv) and  Paul Mazursky  (qv), producer  Roger Corman  (qv), director  John Carpenter (I)  (qv), film critic  Molly Haskell  (qv), and journalist  Peter Biskind  (qv) discuss the issues involved in six films of the 1950s. Topics include teenage loneliness, youth rebellion, changing gender roles, and the beginning of the sexual revolution.