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Kinte family -- Drama.
Haley family -- Drama.
Haley, Alex -- Drama.
Roots: the next generations.
Blacks -- United States -- Biography -- Drama.
Blacks -- Biography -- Drama.
Families, Black -- United States -- Biography -- Drama.
Families, Black -- Drama.
Racism -- Drama.
United States -- Race relations -- Drama.
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Kinte family -- Drama.
Haley family -- Drama.
Haley, Alex -- Drama.
Roots: the next generations.
Blacks -- United States -- Biography -- Drama.
Blacks -- Biography -- Drama.
Families, Black -- United States -- Biography -- Drama.
Families, Black -- Drama.
Racism -- Drama.
United States -- Race relations -- Drama.
MARC Display
Roots
[videorecording (DVD)] : the complete collection. [Volume two],
Roots
: the
next
generations
. [and]
Roots
: the gift.
Warner Home Video, 2007.
Call #:
DVD ROO v.2 TV
Subjects
Kinte family -- Drama.
Haley family -- Drama.
Haley, Alex -- Drama.
Roots
: the
next
generations
.
Blacks -- United States -- Biography -- Drama.
Blacks -- Biography -- Drama.
Families, Black -- United States -- Biography -- Drama.
Families, Black -- Drama.
Racism -- Drama.
United States -- Race relations -- Drama.
Alternate title:
Roots
[videorecording (DVD)] : the
next
generations
Roots
[videorecording (DVD)] : the gift
Roots
: the
next
generations
: the
legacy
continues
[videorecording (DVD)].
Format:
[videorecording (DVD)] :
Description:
5 videodiscs (688 min. + 94 min.) : Dolby digital, mono. sd., col. ; 12 cm.
Notes:
Videodisc release of the 1979 made-for-tv miniseries as well as the 1988 made-for-TV movie "
Roots
: the gift".
Based on the books "
Roots
" and "Search" and additional material by Alex Haley.
Special features: Bonus retrospective documentary "
Roots
: the
next
generations
: the
legacy
continues
" featuring reminiscences by James Earl Jones, director Georg Stanford Brown and executive producer David L. Wolper ; 1988 made-for-TV movie "
Roots
: the gift".
Originally packaged as a 13-disc complete collection set. Please look for 2nd volume "
Roots
".
Home use only.
In English with opitonal English, French or Spanish subtitles ;
Roots
: the gift includes a Spanish language track.
Closed-captioned.
Contents:
Discs 1-4.
Roots
: the
next
generations
-- Disc 5.
Roots
: the gift.
Production:
Executive producer, David L. Wolper ; producer, Stan Margulies ; developed for television by Ernest Kinoy ; teleplay by Sydney A. Glass, Ernest Kindy, Thad Mumford, John McGreevey, Daniel Wilcox ; directed by Georg Standford Brown, Charles S. Dubin, John Erman ; Lloyd Richards.
Performers:
Debbie Allen, Barbara Barrie, Marlon Brando, James Broderick, Irene Cara, Diahann Carroll, Bernie Casey, Lee Chamberlian, Michael Constantine, Robert Culp, James Daly, Olivia de Havilland, Ruby Dee, Damon Evans, Norman Fell, Henry Fonda, Al Freeman Jr., Slim Gaillard, Pam Grier, Rosey Grier, Andy Griffith, Dorian Harewood, Kene Holliday, Rafer Johnson, James Earl Jones, Paul Koslo, Avon Long, Claudia McNeil, Carmen McRae, Dina Merrill, Lynn Moody, Harry Morgan, Greg Morris, Roger E. Mosley, Gerald S. O'Loughlin, Beah Richards, Percy Rodrigues, John Rubenstein, Stan Shaw, Marc Singer, Richard Thomas, George Voskovec, Hal Williams and Paul Winfield.
Roots
: the gift: Louis Gossett Jr., LeVar Burton, Avery Brooks, Kate Mulgrew, Shaun Cassidy, John McMartin, Jerry Hardin, Annabella Price, Fran Bennett, Tim Russ and Michael Learned as Amelia Parker.
Summary:
"His name was Kunta Kinte. Kidnapped from Africa and enslaved in America in 1767, he refused to accept his slave name of Toby. Heirs kept his heroic defiance alive, passing on his tale across
generations
until it reached a young boy growing up in Tennessee, His name was Alex Haley. This is his story."--Container (Complete collection set)
Genre:
Biographical television programs.
Historical television programs.
Television mini-series.
Made-for-TV movies.
Period dramas.
Films for the hearing impaired.
DVDs.
Other authors:
Haley, Alex.
Roots
.
Haley, Alex. Search.
Allen, Debbie, 1950-
Brando, Marlon.
Brooks, Avery.
Brown, Georg Stanford.
Burton, LeVar.
Cara, Irene, 1959-
Carroll, Diahann.
Culp, Robert, 1930-2010.
Dee, Ruby.
Fonda, Henry, 1905-1982.
Harewood, Dorian.
Gossett, Louis, Jr., 1936-
Grier, Pam, 1949-
Griffith, Andy, 1926-2012.
Jones, James Earl.
Learned, Michael.
Morgan, Debbi, 1956-
Mulgrew, Kate, 1955-
Russ, Tim, 1956-
Shaw, Stan, 1952-
Singer, Marc, 1948-
Thomas, Richard, 1951-
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