Smiling Through the Apocalypse Esquire in the 60s (2013)

Smiling Through the Apocalypse chronicles a man whose editorial instincts produced one of the greatest magazines ever Harold Hayes the swinging editor and cultural provocateur of the iconic Esquire Magazine of the Sixties Through the narrative of his son Tom a journey ensues opening unprecedented access to some of the Esquire magazines most compelling talents from Nora Ephron to George Lois and Tom Wolfe to Gore Vidal The film is a story of risk triumph and challenge told by the people that helped make the magazine great and a son who only come to understand his fathers editorial greatness 23 years after his passing