Roots: The Gift(1988)

68

1h 33m

  • Drama,
  • History,
  • TV Movie

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.

Cast

  • LeVar Burton

    LeVar Burton

    Kunta Kinte

  • Louis Gossett Jr.

    Louis Gossett Jr.

    Fiddler

  • Avery Brooks

    Avery Brooks

    Cletus Moyer

  • Kate Mulgrew

    Kate Mulgrew

    Hattie Carraway

  • Shaun Cassidy

    Shaun Cassidy

    Edmund Parker, Jr.

  • John McMartin

    John McMartin

    Edmund Parker, Sr.

  • Jerry Hardin

    Jerry Hardin

    William Reynolds

  • Annabella Price

    Annabella Price

    Sarah Parker

  • Michael Learned

    Michael Learned

    Amelia Parker

  • Fran Bennett

    Fran Bennett

    May

  • Tim Russ

    Tim Russ

    Marcellus

  • Jimmie F. Skaggs

    Jimmie F. Skaggs

    Scarvie

  • Ernest Harden Jr.

    Ernest Harden Jr.

    Nick

  • Lawrence Mandley

    Lawrence Mandley

    Boatman

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    Status

    Released (Dec 11, 1988)

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