Motown Records built its sound in Detroit in the early 1960s, and this student production traces how that sound moved through American society alongside the Civil Rights movement of the 60s and 70s. Songwriter Lamont Dozier, one third of the Holland-Dozier-Holland team behind hits for the Supremes and the Four Tops, talks through the label's early years, and radio historian Paul Gambaccini and chart historian Fred Bronson supply context on where Motown sat in the pop landscape of its day. Producer Randy Jackson, along with Chris Sampson and Audley Smith, weighs in on how the music both reflected and shaped the mood of the era, including its place alongside Martin Luther King's public standing. The film closes by turning to the present, asking how today's music industry compares to the one Motown helped build. Made as a final-year production for the BA television course at Bournemouth University, it stays close to its interview subjects rather than archival spectacle.