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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Follows those in entertainment who took risks, innovated and blazed trails to redefine performing.
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2.Action Heroes
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3.Shock Jocks
07-07-2024In 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.
4.Hollywood Warriors
14-07-2024A 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.
5.Titans of Talk
21-07-2024Daytime 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...
6.Comedy Kings
28-07-2024Fitting 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...
7.Fight The System: Hip Hop & Grunge
04-08-2024n 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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