

Roots: The Gift (1988)
Drama
History
TV Movie
- 2h 33m
68 %
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Overview
On Christmas Eve 1770, a young African warrior, who three years prior had been captured and sold into slavery in America, leads a desperate group of runaway slaves as they attempt to reach freedom in the North.
Overview
On Christmas Eve 1770, a young African warrior, who three years prior had been captured and sold into slavery in America, leads a desperate group of runaway slaves as they attempt to reach freedom in the North.
Top Billed Cast

LeVar Burton
Kunta Kinte

Louis Gossett Jr.
Fiddler

Avery Brooks
Cletus Moyer

Kate Mulgrew
Hattie Carraway

Shaun Cassidy
Edmund Parker, Jr.

John McMartin
Edmund Parker, Sr.

Jerry Hardin
William Reynolds

Annabella Price
Sarah Parker

Michael Learned
Amelia Parker

Fran Bennett
May
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