Get On Up: The Triumph of Black America
Season 1
2023tvEnded1 Season · 2 Ep
Documentary
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Network: BBC Two
Season aired: 2023-03-30
Overview
David Harewood travels across America to explore how African American artists now dominate global popular culture. How have they acquired such influence in the 70 years since the civil rights era?
Episodes · 2
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Episode 1
59m2023-03-30★ 1
Actor David Harewood travels across America to discover the stories behind his heroes, the artistic pioneers from the 1960s to the 1990s who shaped popular culture.
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Episode 2
58m2023-03-31★ 1
David Harewood takes us from the birth of hip-hop in the early 1980s to the present day, exploring how a new generation of producers and performers increasingly began to own their 'creative capital'.
