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04531aam a2200877 4500 001 F3106274484D11E8A3C1E81897128E48 003 SILO 005 20180425010020 024 10 $a 085391144854 040 $a Amazon $d SILO 240 $a Roots (Television program) 245 $a Roots [DVD videorecording] $c David L. Wolper Productions ; Warner Bros. Television ; produced by Stan Margulies ; written by William Blinn, M. Charles Cohen, Ernest Kinoy, James Lee ; directed by Marvin J. Chomsky, John Erman, David Greene, Gilbert Moses. 250 $a 30th anniversary ed. 264 1 $a Burbank, CA $b Warner Home Video $c 2007 300 $a DVD $c region 1 ; full screen (1.33:1) presentation ; Dolby Digital. 4 videodiscs (645 min.) : sd., col. ; 500 $a Emmy Awards, 1977: Outstanding Achievement in Film Sound Editing for a Series ; Outstanding Achievement in Music Composition for a Series (Dramatic Underscore) ; Outstanding Directing in a Drama Series ; Outstanding Film Editing in a Drama Series ; Outstanding Lead Actor for a Single Appearance in a Drama or Comedy Series ; Outstanding Limited Series ; Outstanding Single Performance by a Supporting Actor in a Comedy or Drama Series ; Outstanding Single Performance by a Supporting Actress in a Comedy or Drama Series ; Outstanding Writing in a Drama Series. 500 $a Golden Globes (USA), 1978: Best TV-Series - Drama. 500 $a Special features: Disc 4: "Crossing over: how Roots captivated an entire nation" newly created featurette ; "Roots: one year later" documentary ; audio commentary from key cast memebers including LeVar Burton, Cicely Tyson, and Ed Asner. 500 $a Not rated. 500 $a DVD release of the original ABC television broadcast, January, 1977. 500 $a Based on the novel by Alex Haley. 511 $a Cast: Maya Angelou, LeVar Burton, Edward Asner, O.J. Simpson, Ralph Waite, Louis Gossett Jr., Robert Reed, Lorne Green, Lynda Day George, Vic Morrow, John Amos, Sandy Duncan, Leslie Uggams, George Hamilton, Richard Roundtree, Ben Vereen, Lloyd Bridges, Georg Stanford Brown, Cicely Tyson. 520 $a Follows several generations in the lives of a slave family. The saga begins with Kunta Kinte, a West African youth captured by slave raiders and shipped to America in the 1700s. The family is depicted up until the Civil War, when Kunte Kinte's grandson gains his emancipation. 650 $a DVD-Video discs. 650 $a Biographical television programs. 650 $a Historical films. 650 $a Television serials. 650 $a Biographical $x Television mini-series. 650 $a Historical $x Television mini-series. 650 $a Historical television programs. 650 $a Television mini-series. 650 $a Confederate States of America $x Drama. $x Drama. 650 $a Southern States $x Drama. $x Revolution, 1775-1783 $x Drama. 650 $a Southern States $x Drama. $x Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 $x Drama. 650 $a African Americans $x Drama. $x To 1863 $x Drama. 650 $a Slaveholders $x Drama. $x Drama. 650 $a Slavery $x Drama. $x Drama. 650 $a African American families $x Drama. 700 $a Warner Home Video (Firm) 700 $a Warner Bros. Television. 700 $a Wolper Productions. 700 $a Haley, Alex Roots. 700 $a Jones, Quincy, 1933- 700 $a Fried, Gerald. 700 $a Tyson, Cicely. 700 $a Brown, Georg Stanford. 700 $a Bridges, Lloyd. 700 $a Vereen, Ben. 700 $a Roundtree, Richard, 1942- 700 $a Hamilton, George, 1939- 700 $a Uggams, Leslie. 700 $a Duncan, Sandy, 1946- 700 $a Amos, John, 1939- 700 $a Morrow, Vic, 1931-1982. 700 $a George, Lynda Day. 700 $a Green, Lorne. 700 $a Reed, Robert, 1932-1992. 700 $a Gossett, Louis, 1936- 700 $a Waite, Ralph, 1928- 700 $a Simpson, O. J., 1947- 700 $a Asner, Edward. 700 $a Burton, LeVar. 700 $a Angelou, Maya. 700 $a Moses, Gilbert. 700 $a Greene, David, 1921- 700 $a Erman, John, 1935- 700 $a Chomsky, Marvin J., 1929- 700 $a Lee, James, 1923- 700 $a Kinoy, Ernest. 700 $a Cohen, M. Charles. 700 $a Blinn, William. 700 $a Margulies, Stan. 008 s2007 941 $a 1 952 $l HEPB765 $d 20180425010548.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=F3106274484D11E8A3C1E81897128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search