The Icons That Built America

A 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.

A struggling actor in New York, faced with rejection for his looks and speech impediment, pens his own screenplay and stars in the film, challenging societal norms about what it means to be a leading man

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.

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.

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 hold, both men realize they need to adapt their comedy.

1987, a small-time drug dealer forms a hip-hop group in his hometown of Compton. 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