Vintage footage and photographs show the club's heyday in the late 1970s, highlighting its zeitgeist of freedom and escapism, notorious for widespread drug use and sexual promiscuity.

The nightclub repurposed the building's theatrical and broadcasting features to elaborate effect, with immersive dancefloor lighting and a cast staging thematic party spectacles.

Those lucky enough to pass through the velvet ropes were transported into a liberated adult fantasy, dancing among the likes of Halston, Liza Minnelli, Bianca Jagger, and Andy Warhol.

Studio 54 faced multiple government raids and became entangled in numerous legal battles, with attorney Roy Cohn defending Rubell and Schrager on drug allegations and charges of tax evasion.

"[2] Film Threat praised the documentary as a piece of a cultural history that "paints a picture of an era of New York that had a significant effect on the world.