Roots
1977
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13 Reviews. Hide Spoilers. Sort by: Filter by Rating: 10/10. The Best Family Saga Ever. Single-Black-Male 7 January 2005. Without a doubt, this family saga eclipses John Galsworthy's 'The Forsythe Saga' as well as 'The Thorn Birds' and 'North and South'. All of them are dwarfed by Alex Haley's work.
Roots: The Next Generations: Created by Ernest Kinoy. With Debbi Morgan, Dorian Harewood, Paul Koslo, Stan Shaw. The dramatization of Alex Haley's family line from post Civil War America to the writer's search for his roots.
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Buy Roots: The Next Generations — Season 1 on Fandango at Home, Prime Video, Apple TV. Georg Stanford Brown and Paul Winfield star in a 1979 miniseries.
Jan 11, 2008 · Roots: The Next Generations. Rating: 3 of 5. This 1979 sequel to the landmark miniseries adapted from Alex Haley's bestselling book was produced on a much grander scale and featured an all-star cast, but it doesn't pack quite the emotional wallop of its predecessor.
Buy Roots: The Next Generations on Fandango at Home, Prime Video, Apple TV. Georg Stanford Brown and Paul Winfield star in a 1979 miniseries.
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Roots: The Next Generations is an American television miniseries based on the last seven chapters of Alex Haley's 1976 novel Roots: The Saga of an American Family. First aired on ABC in February 1979, it is a sequel to the 1977 Roots miniseries, tracing the lives of Kunta Kinte's descendants in Henning, Tennessee, from 1882 to 1967.
Oct 9, 2007 · Try as hard as it might, Roots: The Next Generations will never be Roots. The first series earned its status of being a classic, and it has retained its power and resonance over the last thirty years.
