This documentary tells how the idea for constructing a giant statue and giving it to the U.S. can be traced to a single dinner party near Versailles, France, in April of 1865. That the French sculptor Frederic Auguste Bartholdi, the guiding force behind the statue, had never built anything taller than 13 feet high. That much of the money raised to build the Statue came via successful product licensing, using images of "Miss Liberty" to sell everything from life insurance to soap. That the Statue is made of thin sheets of copper, not much thicker than a penny; and that at the time of its construction, the 305 foot tall "Lady Liberty" was the tallest structure in the world. Includes restoration work done on the Statue in the 1980's.