Desc: How Playboy Changed the World: Directed by Kevin Burns. With Count Basie, Tony Bennett, James J. Brophy, Lenny Bruce. Peeks behind the centerfolds and reveals just how Hugh M. Hefner's men's magazine became a worldwide empire. But more than that, it makes the case for how Playboy challenged social conventions about men, women, sex and nudity, and helped galvanize attitudes about civil liberties and civil rights.