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Fight the Power: How Hip Hop Changed the World

Season 1 2023

  • 2023-01-21T21:00:00Z on BBC Two
  • 59m
  • 4h (4 episodes)
  • United Kingdom
  • English
  • Documentary
Public Enemy’s Chuck D leads a cast of hip-hop icons and leading African-American and Latino cultural commentators as they chart the factors that led to the birth of the revolutionary art form of hip-hop in 1970s New York, as well as the creation of the seminal hit The Message. They evoke a picture of how, after the turbulence of the 60s and the civil rights struggles, desperate social conditions and the experience of countless dispossessed people of colour living in a city mired in crisis helped give birth to a new art form.
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4 episodes

Series Premiere

2023-01-21T21:00:00Z

1x01 The Foundation

79%

Series Premiere

1x01 The Foundation

  • 2023-01-21T21:00:00Z — 1h

Discover the factors that led to the birth of Hip Hop and its first socially conscious hit "The Message" by Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five in 1982.

2023-01-21T21:00:00Z

1x02 Under Siege

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1x02 Under Siege

  • 2023-01-21T21:00:00Z — 1h

Explore the 1980s and the birth of Hip Hop as social commentary in the Reagan Era with the emergence of artists like Public Enemy, KRS-One, Ice-T, and NWA.

2023-01-28T21:00:00Z

1x03 Culture Wars

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1x03 Culture Wars

  • 2023-01-28T21:00:00Z — 1h

Experience the 1990s during the Clinton years and the unstoppable rise in popularity of Hip Hop, which becomes a force that is attacked by all sides of the political establishment.

2023-01-28T21:00:00Z

1x04 Still Fighting

74%

1x04 Still Fighting

  • 2023-01-28T21:00:00Z — 1h

Follow the evolution of Hip Hop as its artists turn into multimillionaires and successful entrepreneurs. As a cultural phenomenon, Hip Hop continues to change history and is adopted as the voice of protest around the world.

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