Grant. Poster of the 2020 TV series and cover of the 2017 book
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Grant
Ron Chernow, 2017
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Malcolm Venville, 2020

A documentary series on the life of Ulysses S Grant, the General who ultimately commanded the Union forces during the American Civil War and the man most responsible for the Union victory. Later he would be 18th President of the United States.


Theodore Roosevelt. Poster of the 2022 TV series and cover of the 2018 book, Leadership: In Turbulent Times
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Leadership: In Turbulent Times
Doris Kearns Goodwin, 2018
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Malcolm Venville, 2022

The series explores the breadth and depth of one of history’s most interesting men: Theodore Roosvelt. Cowboy, soldier, statesman, conservationist, adventurer, reformer and author who suffered profound personal loss and became at age 42 the youngest president of the United States, having a monumental impact that is still felt today.


Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom. Poster of the 2013 movie and cover of the 1994 book, Long Walk to Freedom
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Long Walk to Freedom
Nelson Mandela, 1994
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Justin Chadwick, 2013

Based on South African President Nelson Mandela’s autobiography of the same name, which chronicles his early life, coming of age, education and 27 years in prison before becoming President of South Africa and working to rebuild the country’s once segregated society.


Black Beauty. Poster of the 2020 movie and cover of the 1877 book
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Black Beauty
Anna Sewell, 1877
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Ashley Avis, 2020

A wild mustang narrates her life from birth born free within the Onaqui Mountains of Utah. One day, the mustang accidentally alerts some cowboys who proceed to wrangle her entire herd, resulting in the mustang never seeing her mother again. A horse trainer named John Manly arrives and purchases the mustang and takes her to Birtwick, a horse sanctuary.


Elesin Oba. Poster of the 2022 movie and cover of the 1975 book, Death and the King's Horseman
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Death and the King's Horseman
Wole Soyinka, 1975
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Biyi Bandele, 2022

In the Oyo Empire (Nigeria) in the 1940’s, Elesin Oba, the king’s chief horseman, succumbs to the lure of beauty and sexual desire on the very evening he is set to die in order to fulfil his lifelong debt of ritual suicide to accompany the dead Alaafin to the realm of the ancestors, he derails from a very important generational and spiritual transaction. Based on a real-life story.