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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Episode 2 - Action Heroes
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
Episode 3 - Shock Jocks
July. 07,2024
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.
Episode 4 - Hollywood Warriors
July. 14,2024
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.
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