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Roots: 30th Anniversary

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Release Date: 29/10/2007

Edition: 30th Anniversary Edition
Region Code: DVD 2
Certificate: BBFC PG
Label: Warner Bros. Home Ent.
Actors: LeVar Burton, Maya Angelou, O.J. Simpson, Ben Vereen, Brad Davis, Cicely Tyson, Doug McClure, Ed Asner, Edward Asner, Gary Collins, Georg Stanford Brown, John Amos, Leslie Uggams, Lloyd Bridges, Lorne Greene, Louis Gossett Jr., Lynne Moody, Ralph Waite, Ren Woods, Robert Reed, Sandy Duncan, Vic Morrow, LeVar Burton, O.J. Simpson, Maya Angelou, Ji-Tu Cumbuka, Moses Gunn, Moses Gunn, Edward Asner, William Watson, Harry Rhodes, Richard Roundtree, Vic Morrow, Maya Angelou, Ian McShane, Lloyd Bridges, Chuck Connors, Lorne Greene, Doug McClure, Cicely Tyson, Thalmus Rasulala, George Hamilton, Louis Gossett Jr.
Director: David Greene, Gilbert Moses, John Erman, Marvin J. Chomsky, David Greene, Gilbert Moses, Marvin J. Chomsky, John Erman
Number of Discs: 5
Duration: 564 minutes
Audio Languages: English, English
Subtitle Languages: en, English, English

The television adaptation of Alex Hailey's bestselling novel (based on his own family's roots) offers a dramatic portrayal of African-American history, from the time of the slave trade to the American Civil War. The story begins in The Gambia, West Africa, and a new Mandike warrior is born to Binta and Omoro called Kunta Kinte. When a grown man, Kunta Kinte is kidnapped by slavers and taken to America where he struggles to come to terms with being a slave for many years. Eventually he accepts he cannot return to Africa and settles down to create a family. The story then follows the next generations of Kunta Kinte's family until the abolition of slavery after the Civil War.