Ulysses S. Grant: Warrior

Ulysses S. Grant: Warrior / President: American Experience

2002 NR 213 minutes

Ulysses S. Grant was one of America's most paradoxical leaders. The greatest hero of the Civil War, Grant was a brilliant military strategist who rose from obscurity to George Washington's former rank. Propelled into the White House by his battlefield success, Grant lacked the political skills to deal with reconstructing the South and managing the nation's rapidly expanding economy, and his life after the White House was filled with disaster.

Reconstruction: The Second Civil War: American Experience

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Reconstruction: The Second Civil War: American Experience

2004
NR
180 minutes


This installment of the acclaimed PBS television series "American Experience" looks at one of the least understood periods in American history, Reconstruction, which spanned the tumultuous years from 1863 to 1877. The documentary tracks the extraordinary stories of ordinary Americans -- Southerners, Northerners, white and black -- as they struggle to shape new lives in a United States turned upside down.