The Icons That Built America73%
TV
2024-06-23
Documentary
Ratings
Combined
72.7
%
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IMDb
7.2
/10
71 votes
Trakt
70
%
11 votes
TMDB
80
%
1 votes
Highlights the talented, often provocative entertainers whose brilliance and rise to stardom transformed American popular culture.
View watch stats for The Icons That Built America →Status
Ended
Seasons
1
Episodes
7
Studios
Network
Country
United States of America
Language
English
Cast
Season 1
- 1 Daredevil Duo 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 car…
- 2 Action Heroes 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 …
- 3 Shock Jocks In 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 A 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 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 rule…
- 6 Comedy Kings 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 …
- 7 Fight The System: Hip Hop & Grunge 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 governm…
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