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Overview

This documentary-series examines Grant's life story using his perspective and experiences to explore a turbulent time in history: the Civil War and Reconstruction.

Series Cast

  1. Cast 1

    Justin Salinger

    Ulysses S. Grant

  2. Cast 1

    Carel Nel

    Abraham Lincoln

  3. Jason K. Ralph

    General Sherman

  4. Brian Heydenrych

    Robert E. Lee

  5. Cast 1

    Francis Chouler

    John Rawlins

  6. Dianne Simpson

    Julia Grant

  7. Nicholas Dallas

    Major Lewis Merrill

  8. Darron Araujo

    Mark Twain

  9. Cast 1

    Craig Jackson

    General Halleck

Last Season

Poster

Miniseries

2020 | 3 episodes

season 1 of Grant premiered on May 25, 2020.

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_**Ranks with the top Civil War films**_ Released in 2020, “Grant” is a three-part miniseries based on historian Ron Chernow’s 2017 book of the same name. Without commercials, this is a 4-hour film that’s part dramatic reenactment featuring Justin Salinger in the lead role and part documentary with a diverse cast of erudite and interesting commentators. Ulysses S. Grant has been descibed as “an inspired commander, an adequate president, a dull companion and a roaring drunk.” I take issue with that last description. Grant might’ve had an issue with alcohol, but that doesn’t make him a “...

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Status Ended

Network Network

TypeMiniseries

Original LanguageEnglish 

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