Introduction
Grant is a 2020 American television miniseries directed by Malcolm Venville.
Based on the bestselling non-fiction book by Ron Chernow, the three-part miniseries chronicles the life of Ulysses S. Grant, the eighteenth President of the United States, and premiered on 25 May 2020 on History.
The miniseries is TV-14 V rated, containing displayed acts of violence during the American Civil War.
Outline
In one of the unlikeliest stories in American history, Ulysses S. Grant rises from his humble beginnings to become the winning general in one of the the Civil War’s bloodiest battles.
As a child in Ohio, he helps his father with his tanning business. Then is sent off to military school, becoming an underachieving cadet at West Point. Grant serves as a quartermaster in the Mexican-American War, and marries Julia Dent, the daughter of a slave-owner in White Haven, Missouri. He is then stationed at Fort Humboldt where he is melancholic without his wife and two sons, and starts to drink heavily.
After resigning from the US Army, he adjusts to civilian life in Illinois where he learns of a lawyer named Abraham Lincoln who is running for president to end slavery.
When the southern states secede from the Union, Grant is thrust into war once again, first in the messy Battle of Belmont. He then takes out Fort Henry and Fort Donelson with Commander Foote and his Navy gun boats, and finally wins the long, bloody Battle of Shiloh in Tennessee alongside General Sherman in 1862.
Grant Series
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Production & Filming Details
- Release Date: 25 May 2020.
- Running time: 60 minutes.
- Country: US.
- Language: English.
Video Link
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