Results for tag : gritty

Theodore Roosevelt is bound for greatness—he's a Harvard graduate from a prominent family, a rising politician, and his wife, Alice, is pregnant. Then his promising future turns tragic. His mother succumbs to typhoid, and Alice dies in childbirth on the same day. Devastated, Teddy leaves his urban world of high rises and high society for the desolate Dakota Territory, where, by facing the harsh reality of surviving life on America’s frontier, he intends to remake himself into something greater.

A drama anthology that serves up a raw slice of real life in Modern Britain.

A young private's assignment to capture army deserters reveals the painful reality endured by each enlistee during his compulsory call of duty.