The Icons That Built America

Season 1

TV-14
Follows those in entertainment who took risks, innovated and blazed trails to redefine performing.
Where to Watch Season 1
7 Episodes
  • Daredevil Duo
    E1
    Daredevil DuoA struggling motorcycle salesman attempts a dangerous stunt in 1965, kickstarting an entertainment career. He risks it all for an even bigger stunt. Years later, a boy inspired by the daredevil pursues his own perilous path to fame.
  • Action Heroes
    E2
    Action HeroesA 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.
  • Shock Jocks
    E3
    Shock JocksIn 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.
  • Hollywood Warriors
    E4
    Hollywood WarriorsA 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.
  • Titans of Talk
    E5
    Titans of TalkDaytime 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.
  • Comedy Kings
    E6
    Comedy KingsFitting 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
  • Fight The System: Hip Hop & Grunge
    E7
    Fight The System: Hip Hop & Grungen 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.
Cast of Season 1
  • Jon ArmondSelf - Narrator (voice)
 
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