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Edit Cast Series cast summary: Town Folk 4 episodes, Jonathan Rhys Meyers Tom Lea 3 episodes, Malachi Kirby Kunta Kinte 3 episodes, Forest Whitaker Fiddler 3 episodes, Laurence Fishburne Alex Haley 3 episodes, Babs Olusanmokun Omoro Kinte 3 episodes, Tevin Paul Slave 3 episodes, Matthew Goode Chicken George 2 episodes, Emayatzy Corinealdi Belle 2 episodes, Shannon Lucio Patricia Lea 2 episodes, James Purefoy John Waller 2 episodes, Erica Tazel Matilda 2 episodes, Derek Luke Elizabeth Waller 2 episodes, Anika Noni Rose Kizzy 2 episodes, Tony Curran Connelly 2 episodes, Adam Fergus Sir Eric Russell 2 episodes, Nokuthula Ledwaba Binta Kinte 2 episodes, Carol Sutton Miss Malizy 2 episodes, Chris Obi Kintango 2 episodes, Roman Armstrong Newborn Chicken George 2 episodes, David Shiflett Chicken Fight Gambler 2 episodes, Darrell L.

Waller Slave 2 episodes, Calvin Williams Edit Storyline An adaptation of Alex Haley's "Roots", chronicling the history of an African man sold to slavery in America, and his descendants. Edit Details Official Sites: Edit Did You Know? Trivia Retelling of the popular mini series from the late 70s. Goofs From the trailer when the cannon is exploding, all the gun crew are wearing wide red stripes on their trouser kegs. The stripe was only worn by sergeants. However in the scene the cannon is being tested, ALL the crew are specialist NCOs and the scene comes at the very beginning of the Civil War, before there has been much action.

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Hence the artillerymen are carrying no personal weapons and their uniforms are particularly clean before the explosion and all have red trouser stripes. Frequently Asked Questions Q: George Johnson, in his capacity as the overseer of the plantation, intervenes and is forced to whip Tom once, to his own horror and disgust, in order to save his friend's life. Meanwhile, the former owner of the farm, Sam Harvey, is forced to surrender all of his property to Senator Arthur Justin Burl Ives , a local politician intent on acquiring as much land as possible.

Under the terms of the surrender, his former slaves are allowed to stay on as sharecroppers, with eventual rights to own a part of the land. However, because no written deed has been filed, the senator deems the agreement void and imposes heavy debts on the black farmers. Several years later Chicken George unexpectedly returns, raises the spirits of his relatives and friends, and begins to plot their next step.

He reports that he has bought some land in Tennessee. Using some cunning and deception of their own, the group makes preparations for their move away.

After one final confrontation with Evan and his gang, George and his company start their trek from North Carolina to Tennessee. In the last scene George and his group arrive on his land in Henning , Lauderdale County , Tennessee, to start their new life. George retells part of the story from Kunta Kinte in Africa to himself in Tennessee.

Then Alex Haley briefly narrates a montage of photographs of family members connecting Tom's daughter, Cynthia, a great-great-granddaughter of Kunta Kinte, to Haley himself. For the continuation of the story from the late 19th century into the 20th century, see Roots: The miniseries was directed by Marvin J. It was produced by Stan Margulies. Wolper was executive producer. The score was composed by Gerald Fried , and Quincy Jones for only the first episode.

ABC television executives "got cold feet" after seeing the brutality depicted in the series and attempted to cut the network's predicted losses by airing the series over eight consecutive nights in January in one fell swoop. Familiar television actors like Lorne Greene were chosen for the white, secondary roles, to reassure audiences.

The white actors were featured disproportionately in network previews. For the first episode, the writers created a conscience-stricken slave captain Edward Asner , a figure who did not appear in Haley's novel but was intended to make white audiences feel better about their historical role in the slave trade.


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Even the show's consecutive-night format allegedly resulted from network apprehensions. ABC programming chief Fred Silverman hoped that the unusual schedule would cut his network's imminent losses—and get Roots off the air before sweeps week. Allmusic 's Richard S. Ginell said "Quincy Jones has been threatening to write a long tone poem sketching the history of black music for decades now, and he has yet to do it.

This project, rushed out in the wake of the TV mini-series Roots , is about as close as he has come. A brief 28 minutes immaculately-produced and segued suite, Roots quickly traces a timeline from Africa to the Civil War, incorporating ancient and modern African influences with Letta Mbulu as the featured vocalist , a sea shanty, field hollers, and fiddle tunes, snippets of dialogue from Roots actor Lou Gossett, and some Hollywood-style movie cues.

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Though some prominent jazzers turn up in the orchestra, there is not a trace of jazz to be heard. This is a timely souvenir of a cultural phenomenon, but merely a curiosity for jazz fans". Following the success of the original novel and the miniseries, Haley was sued by author Harold Courlander , who asserted that Roots was plagiarized from his own novel The African , published nine years prior to Roots in The resulting trial ended with an out-of-court settlement and an admission from Haley that certain passages within Roots had been copied from Courlander's work.

District Court Judge Robert J. Ward stated, "Copying there is, period. Shortly after the trial, however, a minority studies teacher at Skidmore College, Joseph Bruchac , came forward and swore in an affidavit that he had discussed The African with Haley in or and had given his own personal copy of The African to Haley, events that took place well before publication of Roots.

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Roots originally aired on ABC for eight consecutive nights from January 23 to 30, The concluding three parts were broadcast on Sunday nights, from April 15 to May 1. The miniseries was watched by an estimated million [18] [19] [20] and million [21] [22] viewers total more than half of the U. Celebrating the 35th anniversary of Roots , BET premiered the miniseries on a three-day-weekend showing in December , which resulted in its being seen by a total of As for the BET network, its 35th-anniversary airing of Roots became its best "non-tentpole" weekend in the network's history.

Warner Home Video, which released a three-disc 25th-anniversary DVD edition of the series in , [25] released a four-disc three double-sided, one single-sided 30th-anniversary set on May 22, On June 7, , Warner Bros. Home Entertainment released and remastered the series on Blu-ray in p high definition.

American historian Steven Mintz wrote that "Many Americans, influenced by images in the television mini-series Roots , mistakenly believe that most slaves were captured by Europeans who landed on the African coast and captured or ambushed people. While Europeans did engage in some slave raiding, the majority of people who were transported to the Americas were enslaved by other Africans. The History channel produced a remake of the miniseries after acquiring rights from David L.

Wolper 's son, Mark Wolper, and Alex Haley's estate. The new eight-hour miniseries, with Mark Wolper as executive producer, drew on Haley's novel and the original miniseries albeit from a contemporary perspective.

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