The Icons That Built America (2024)
Highlights the talented, often provocative entertainers whose brilliance and rise to stardom transformed American popular culture.
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Episodes
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1. Daredevil Duo2024-06-23 · 42mIn 1965, a struggling motorcycle salesman desperate to juice sales at his small-town dealership comes up with a dangerous publicity stunt that not only launches him into a new care
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2. Action Heroes2024-06-30 · 42mA struggling New York actor, brushed aside because of his looks and speech impediment, bets on himself to write, and star in a movie. By challenging the ideas of what it means to b
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3. Shock Jocks2024-07-07In the 1970s, two maverick broadcasters take a different approach, challenging their bosses, the rules and polite society to help create a new genre: talk radio.
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4. Hollywood Warriors2024-07-14A young martial artist and actor from Hong Kong has dreams of breaking into Hollywood, but in the 1970s, the racial barriers block any chance he has of becoming a star.
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5. Titans of Talk2024-07-21Daytime talk shows in the 1980s is aimed at a stay-at-home female audience and has conversational topics and polite discussion; a young politician-turned-TV host rewrites the rules
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6. Comedy Kings2024-07-28Fitting into the clean-cut roles that comedians occupied in the 1950s, two up-and-coming stand-ups make names for themselves; as society shifts and counter-culture movements take h
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7. Fight The System: Hip Hop & Grunge2024-08-04n 1987, a small-time drug dealer forms a hip-hop based group in his hometown of Compton, California. The group's provocative brand of "reality rap" draws backlash from the governme
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Jon ArmondSelf - Narrator (voice)
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