Love To Love You Baby
Donna Summer
Plays during the opening sequence and a montage of New Year's 1975 celebrations.
Bird Song
The Holy Modal Rounders
Plays during a segment discussing "New Hollywood" and the success of counter-culture films like Easy Rider.
Psycho Killer
Talking Heads
Plays during a discussion about social isolation in America and the character Travis Bickle in Taxi Driver.
Theme From Shaft
Isaac Hayes
Plays during a section focused on the success of Blaxploitation films and their impact on the film industry.
I'm Feeling Good About America (Gerald Ford)
Oscar Brand
A campaign-style song playing during a segment about President Gerald Ford and public efforts to restore trust in the presidency.
Breakdown
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
Plays during a montage examining the "American nightmare" and the disillusionment of the era.
Performed by the band Devo; plays during a segment about the rise of computers and technology as a source of both progress and oppression.
Love Will Keep Us Together
Captain & Tennille
Plays during a discussion about the shift from political television like All in the Family to nostalgia-driven shows like Happy Days.
You're The Top - (From "Anything Goes")
Cole Porter
A Cole Porter musical number starring Burt Reynolds, used to illustrate the era's focus on lighter, nostalgic entertainment.
Why Can't We Be Friends?
War
End credits.
Assault on Precinct 13
John Carpenter
Rising street crime drove audiences toward self-defense and vigilante "revenge-amatics". Films like Death Wish turned Charles Bronson into an aspirational hero for an angry, paranoid public.