Roots: The Gift
6.8
12 reviews
Drama/History
1h 33m
1988
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...
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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.
- DirectorKevin Hooks
- Release11 December 1988
- Genre
- Duration1h 33m
- Budget?
- Revenue?
- Rate6.812 reviews
- Productions
David L. Wolper Productions, Warner Bros. Television
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
Tim Russ
Marcellus
Jimmie F. Skaggs
Scarvie
Ernest Harden Jr.
Nick
Lawrence Mandley
Boatman
John Murray
Bishop Wadley
Alex Haley
Self - presenter
Tina Andrews
Aurelia (archive footage) (uncredited)
Robert Goldman
Horseman (uncredited)
Debra Perry
Slave Girl (uncredited)
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