Roots (Complete Miniseries Colleciton & The Gift) - 5-DVD Box Set ( Roots: Mini-Series / Roots: The Next Generation / Roots: The Gift )

Roots (Complete Miniseries Colleciton & The Gift) - 5-DVD Box Set (DVD) (*)

$43.99

Original Title: Roots: Mini-Series / Roots: The Next Generation / Roots: The Gift
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Emmy Awards
Golden Globes
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
English ( Dolby Surround )
English ( Mono )
English ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
1313 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Box Set
Interactive Menu
Multi-DVD Set
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1977 - 1988 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Marvin J. Chomsky
John Erman
Charles S. Dubin
Kevin Hooks

Written By:
William Blinn
M. Charles Cohen
Sydney A. Glass
Alex Haley
David Eyre Jr.

Actors:
Olivia Cole ..... Mathilda (5 episodes, 1977)
Ben Vereen ..... 'Chicken' George Moore (5 episodes, 1977)
LeVar Burton ..... Kunta Kinte / ... (4 episodes, 1977)
John Amos ..... 'Toby' / ... (4 episodes, 1977)
Leslie Uggams ..... Kizzy Reynolds (4 episodes, 1977)
Carolyn Jones ..... Mrs. Moore (4 episodes, 1977)
Louis Gossett Jr. ..... Fiddler (4 episodes, 1977)
Vic Morrow ..... Ames (4 episodes, 1977)
Chuck Connors ..... Tom Moore (4 episodes, 1977)
Ji-Tu Cumbuka ..... Wrestler (3 episodes, 1977)
Edward Asner ..... Capt. Thomas Davies (3 episodes, 1977)
Ralph Waite ..... Slater (3 episodes, 1977)
Robert Reed ..... Dr. William Reynolds (3 episodes, 1977)
Lynda Day George ..... Mrs. Reynolds (3 episodes, 1977)
Madge Sinclair ..... Bell Reynolds (3 episodes, 1977)
Scatman Crothers ..... Mingo (3 episodes, 1977)
George Hamilton ..... Stephen Bennett (3 episodes, 1977)
Richard Roundtree ..... Sam Bennett (3 episodes, 1977)
Lloyd Bridges ..... Evan Brent (3 episodes, 1977)
Georg Stanford Brown ..... Tom Harvey (3 episodes, 1977)
Brad Davis ..... Ol' George Johnson (3 episodes, 1977)
Hilly Hicks ..... Lewis (3 episodes, 1977)
Lynne Moody ..... Irene Harvey (3 episodes, 1977)
Lane Binkley ..... Martha Johnson (3 episodes, 1977)
Austin Stoker ..... Virgil (3 episodes, 1977)
Sandy Duncan ..... Missy Anne Reynolds (3 episodes, 1977)
Tracey Gold ..... Young missy reynolds (3 episodes, 1977)
Moses Gunn ..... Kintango (2 episodes, 1977)
Thalmus Rasulala ..... Omoro (2 episodes, 1977)
Hari Rhodes ..... Brima Cesay (2 episodes, 1977)
William Watson ..... Gardner (2 episodes, 1977)
Renn Woods ..... Fanta (2 episodes, 1977)
Lorne Greene ..... John Reynolds (2 episodes, 1977)
Thayer David ..... Harlan (2 episodes, 1977)
Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs ..... Noah (2 episodes, 1977)
Roxie Roker ..... Melissa (2 episodes, 1977)
Lillian Randolph ..... Sister Sara (2 episodes, 1977)
Davis Roberts ..... Leonard (2 episodes, 1977)
Maya Angelou ..... Nyo Boto / ... (2 episodes, 1977)
Richard McKenzie ..... Sam Harvey (2 episodes, 1977)
John Quade ..... Sheriff Biggs (2 episodes, 1977)
Doug McClure ..... Jemmy Brent / ... (2 episodes, 1977)
Cicely Tyson ..... Binta (2 episodes, 1977)
Tina Andrews ..... Aurelia (2 episodes, 1977)
Rebecca Bess ..... Girl on Ship (2 episodes, 1977)
Henry Butts ..... Sitafa (2 episodes, 1977)
Joe Dorsey ..... Calvert (2 episodes, 1977)
Kermit Echols ..... Vilars (2 episodes, 1977)
Richard Farnsworth ..... Slave catcher (2 episodes, 1977)
Ronnie Leggett ..... Kalila (2 episodes, 1977)
Rachel Longaker ..... Caroline (2 episodes, 1977)
Ernest Thomas ..... Kailuba (2 episodes, 1977)
Dorian Harewood ..... Simon Haley (5 episodes, 1979)
Debbi Morgan ..... Elizabeth Harvey (5 episodes, 1979)
Paul Koslo ..... Earl Crowther (4 episodes, 1979)
Stan Shaw ..... Will Palmer (4 episodes, 1979)
Marc Singer ..... Andy Warner (4 episodes, 1979)
Fay Hauser ..... Carrie / ... (4 episodes, 1979)
Lynn Hamilton ..... Cousin Georgia (4 episodes, 1979)
Irene Cara ..... Bertha Palmer Haley (3 episodes, 1979)
Ruby Dee ..... Queen Haley (3 episodes, 1979)
Henry Fonda ..... Colonel Frederick Warner (3 episodes, 1979)
Richard Thomas ..... Jim Warner (3 episodes, 1979)
Bever-Leigh Banfield ..... Cynthia Palmer (3 episodes, 1979)
Georg Stanford Brown ..... Tom Harvey (2 episodes, 1979)
Olivia de Havilland ..... Mrs. Warner (2 episodes, 1979)
Lynne Moody ..... Irene Harvey (2 episodes, 1979)
Beah Richards ..... Cynthia Palmer (2 episodes, 1979)
Marcus Chong ..... Frankie Warner (2 episodes, 1979)
Kathleen Doyle ..... Lucy Damson (2 episodes, 1979)
Don Keefer ..... Hapgood / ... (2 episodes, 1979)
Damu King ..... Corporal / ... (2 episodes, 1979)
Royce Wallace ..... Minnie (2 episodes, 1979)
Louis Gossett Jr. ..... Fiddler Reynolds
LeVar Burton ..... Kunta Kinte
Avery Brooks ..... Cletus Moyer
Kate Mulgrew ..... Hattie Carraway
Shaun Cassidy ..... Edmund Parker Jr.
John McMartin ..... Edmund Parker Sr.
Jerry Hardin ..... Dr. William Reynolds
Annabella Price ..... Sarah Parker
Michael Learned ..... Amelia Parker
Fran Bennett ..... Mammy May
Tim Russ ..... Marcellus
Jimmie F. Skaggs ..... Scarvie
Brandy Brown ..... Arabella Parker
Ernest Harden Jr. ..... Nicholas
Maria Bryant ..... Lilly (as Maria Bryant Ellis)

Synopsis:

Roots (1977)
1750: The Gambia, West Africa. A new Mandinka warrior is born to Binta and Omoro called Kunta Kinte. His father turns the young baby's face to the heavens and whispers "Behold - the only thing greater than yourself". So begins the most critically and popularly acclaimed television drama of our time, telling the struggle against the suffering, slavery and discrimination endured by generations of black people, as seen through the eyes of Kunta Kinte and his descendants...

Roots: The Next Generation (1979)
This is the sequel to the highly successful television series Roots and continues the story of Alex Haley's family line from the Post American Civil War era to Alex Haley's geneological search to discover his roots.

Roots: The Gift (1988)
The characters of Kunta Kinte and Fiddler from Roots are back in this movie. In this movie the two of them accompany their owner to another plantation at Christmas time and they learn that the son of the owner helps slaves escape. And the two of them try to help him and also see this as an opportunity to escape themselves.

Roots (1977)
A saga of African-American life, based on Alex Haley's family history. Kunta Kinte is abducted from his African village, sold into slavery, and taken to America. He makes several escape attempts until he is finally caught and maimed. He marries Bell, his plantation's cook, and they have a daughter, Kizzy, who is eventually sold away from them. Kizzy has a son by her new master, and the boy grows up to become Chicken George, a legendary cock fighter who leads his family into freedom. Throughout the series, the family observes notable events in U.S. history, such as the Revolutionary and Civil Wars, slave uprisings, and emancipation.

Roots: The Next Generations (1979)
This series continues the story of Alex Haley's family line from the Post American Civil War era to Alex Haley's geneological search to discover his roots.

Roots: The Gift (1988)
Roots: The Gift is a 1988 television film. It is the third installment of the Roots series, which traces the maternal family history of African American author Alex Haley, starting with his fourth great-grandfather Kunta Kinte.

His name was Kunta Kinte. Kidnapped from Africa enslaved in America in 1767, he refused to accept his slave name 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. Through the lineage of one family, Haley and his Pulitzer Prize - winning Roots told a story for all America and the world. Seen by 130 million viewers during its premiere telecast and the winner of dozens of awards, the David L. Wolper production remains an engrossing entertainment 30 years later.

This product was added to our catalog on Thursday 13 February, 2014.