Roots
Directed by:
Bruce BeresfordCinematography:
Peter Menzies Jr.Composer:
Alex HeffesCast:
Adam Fergus, Laurence Fishburne, Lane Garrison, T.I., Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Regé-Jean Page, Anna Paquin, Mekhi Phifer, Erica Tazel, Emayatzy Corinealdi, Malachi Kirby, Derek Luke, Babs Olusanmokun (more)Plots(1)
After more than 20 years in England, Chicken George is given his freedom and he returns to the Lea farm. In his absence, his family was sold off to North Carolina, where he tracks them down. He is reunited with Matilda but finds his youngest boy, a master blacksmith, is now the leader of the family. A quiet, hardworking young man, Tom nurses a rage against his father, who he blames for abandoning the family. George meets up with a young, hot-headed slave, Cyrus, with whom he joins the Memphis Colored Battery; as the war ends, Chicken George and Cyrus barely escape with their lives. Inspired by a vision of Kunta Kinte, George's son Tom rescues him and, once home, leads his family to embark on a new life. True to Kunta's hope, the family finally finds freedom and keeps the family and its traditions intact. In 1976, Alex Haley, a seventh-generation descendant of Kunta Kinte, authors and publishes the Pulitzer Prize-winning Roots: The Saga of an American Family. (History Channel)
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