The Icons That Built America Season 1

June. 23,2024
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The Icons That Built America

Highlights the talented, often provocative entertainers whose brilliance and rise to stardom transformed American popular culture.

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The Icons That Built America

2024  / TV-14
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Follows those in entertainment who took risks, innovated and blazed trails to redefine performing.

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The Icons That Built America Season 1 Full Episode Guide

Episode 7 - Fight The System: Hip Hop & Grunge
First Aired: August. 04,2024

n 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 government and law enforcement as they try to push the boundaries of what hip-hop can be.

Episode 6 - Comedy Kings
First Aired: July. 28,2024

Fitting 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 hold, both men realize they need to adapt their comedy

Episode 5 - Titans of Talk
First Aired: July. 21,2024

Daytime 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 when an unexpected fight breaks out between his guests.

Episode 4 - Hollywood Warriors
Episode 3 - Shock Jocks
Episode 2 - Action Heroes
First Aired: June. 30,2024

A 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 be a leading man at the time, he gives himself a fighting chance in Hollywood. At the same time, a young Austrian bodybuilder must overcome his own hurdles and outside discrimination to utilize his strength and power in creating a name for himself in America.

Episode 1 - Daredevil Duo
First Aired: June. 23,2024

In 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 career, but changes entertainment forever. As his star rises, he'll bet it all on a stunt that could propel him to new heights or cost him his life. And a generation later, a young boy who grew up idolizing the motorcycle daredevil will take his own dangerous path to television and film success... by daring to fail.

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