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The four-night, eight-hour event series developed by HISTORY, from A+E Studios, is a historical portrait of American slavery recounting the journey of one family and their will to survive and ...
Roots is a 2016 American miniseries and a remake of the 1977 miniseries with the same name, based on Alex Haley's 1976 novel, Roots: The Saga of an American Family, which follows an African man who is shipped to North America as a slave and his descendants.
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.
January 23, 1977. Genres. Drama, TV Miniseries, TV Movie. Videos. Gallery. TM & © 2024 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. All rights reserved. <p>His name was Kunta Kinte. Kidnapped from Africa and enslaved in America in 1767, he refused to accept his slave name of Toby.</p>
May 30, 2016 · Roots. S 1 E 1. Part 1. May 30, 2016 | tv-14 l,v. In 1750 in the river region of The Gambia in West Africa, Omoro Kinte and his wife, Binta, have their first child, a son named Kunta. Kunta is...
Play all. An eight-hour event series, "Roots" is a historical portrait of one family's journey through American slavery and their will to survive and preserve their le...
Roots: The Complete Miniseries. 854 subscribers ‧ 14 videos. From Alex Haley's Pulitzer Prize-winning book comes the stirring, sweeping saga of his unforgettable family and its struggle over many...
