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Watch The Icons That Built America (2024) Online

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

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1. Daredevil DuoNow viewing2024-06-2342mIn 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.
2. Action Heroes2024-06-3042mA 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.
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.
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.
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 when an unexpected fight breaks out between his guests.
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 hold, both men realize they need to adapt their comedy
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 government and law enforcement as they try to push the boundaries of what hip-hop can be.

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Jon Armond
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How many seasons does The Icons That Built America have?

The Icons That Built America has 1 season and 7 episodes.

When did The Icons That Built America first air?

The Icons That Built America first aired in 2024.

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The Icons That Built America is classified as Documentary.