Roots
[six video box set]
Starring:
Episode 1: Edward Asner, O.J. Simpson, Ralph Waite, Maya Angelou,
Ji-Tu Cumbuka, Moses Gunn, Thalmus Rasulala, Harry Rhodes, William Watson,
Ren Woods, LeVar Burton
Episode 2: Edward Asner, Louis Gossett,jr., Lorne Greene, Robert Reed,
Ralph Waite, Ji-Tu Cumbuka, Lynda Day George, Vic Marrow, Paul Shenar,
Ren Woods, LeVar Burton
Episode 3: John Amos, Lynda Day George, Louis Gossett,jr., Lorne Greene,
Robert Reed, Vic Marrow, Madge Sinclair
Episode 4: John Amos, Chuck Connors, Scatman Crothers, Sandy Duncan,
George Hamilton, Lawrence-Hilton Jacobs, Carolyn Jones, Robert Reed,
Richard Roundtree, John Schuck, Madge Sinclair, Leslie Uggams, Ben Vereen
Episode 5: Lloyd Bridges, Georg Stanford Brown, Macdonald Carey, Olivia Cole,
Chuck Connors, Brad Davis, Sandy Duncan, Hilly Hicks, Carolyn Jones,
Doug McClure, Ian McShane, Lynne Moody, Leslie Uggams, Ben Vereen
Episode 6: Lloyd Bridges, Georg Stanford Brown, Olivia Cole, Brad Davis,
Hilly Hicks, Burl Ives, Lynne Moody, Ben Vereen
Directors: David Greene, John Erman, Marvin J. Chomsky, Gilbert Moses
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, whispering the name of Kunta Kinte from one generation to the next until it reached a young boy
growing up in Tennessee. His name was Alex Haley. And he proclaimed Kunta Kinte's name to the world.
Through the lineage of one family, Haley and his Pulitzer Prize-winning Roots told a story for all America. The powerful tale
(seen by 130 million viewers during its inital U.S. telecasts) begins in Gambia, West Africa. Kunta Kinte (LeVar Burton), son of
Omoro and Binta, distinguishes hinself in manhood training rituals. But he does not enjoy his new status long: slave traders
sweeping through the countryside capture him. Chained with other unfortunates, Kunta begins an agonized odyssey to the New World.