Movie

Roots: The Gift

★ 7.3/10 · 14 votes 1988 1h 33m Released

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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.

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.