LeVar Burton
Kunta Kinte / Toby
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- 1. S1 E1 Jan 23, 1977
- Kunta Kinte is kidnapped on the way back from his ritual manhood training.
- 2. Part II Jan 24, 1977
- Kunta is put up for auction; he goes to the Reynolds plantation, where he is befriended.
- 3. Part III Jan 25, 1977
- In 1776, still driven by his memories as a Mandinka warrior, Kunta, now renamed Toby, escapes.
Roots is a 1977 American television miniseries based on Alex Haley 's 1976 novel Roots: The Saga of an American Family, set during and after the era of slavery in the United States. The series first aired on ABC in January 1977 over eight consecutive nights.
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Roots: With Robert Reed, John Amos, Louis Gossett Jr., Lynda Day George. A dramatization of author Alex Haley's family line from ancestor Kunta Kinte's enslavement to his descendants' liberation.
- (19K)
- 1977-01-23
- Biography, Drama, History
- 74
16 Videos. 99+ Photos. Drama War. An adaptation of Alex Haley's "Roots." Chronicles the history of an African man and his descendants sold into slavery in America. Stars. Jonathan Rhys Meyers. Malachi Kirby. Forest Whitaker. See production info at IMDbPro. Add to Watchlist. Added by 26.3K users. 73 User reviews. 11 Critic reviews.
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- 2016-05-30
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- 3 min
Plot. Roots tells the story of Kunta Kinte —a young man taken from The Gambia when he was 17 and sold as a slave—and seven generations of his descendants in the United States. Kunta, a Mandinka living by the River Gambia, has a difficult but free childhood in his village, Jufureh.
- Alex Haley
- 1976
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