Roots [videorecording] / a David L. Wolper production ; Warner Bros. Television ; produced by Stan Margulies ; written for television by William Blinn and Ernest Kinoy ; directed by David Green.
Based on the novel by Alex Haley. Special features: Disc 4: "Crossing over: how Roots captivated an entire nation" newly created featurette, "Roots: one year later" documentary hosted by Louis Gossett, Jr., audio commentary with video option from key cast members including LeVar Burton, Cicely Tyson, and Ed Asner. 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. DVD release of the original ABC television broadcast, January, 1977.
Summary:
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.
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