Roots: The Gift (1988)

★ 6.8 1h 33m 12 votes IMDb
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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.

Roots: The Gift

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LeVar Burton
LeVar Burton as Kunta Kinte Age 69 · Landstuhl, Rhineland Palatinate, Germany Levardis Robert Martyn Burton Jr. (born February 16, 1957) is an American actor, director, and television host. He played Geordi La Forge in Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994), Kunta Kinte in...
Louis Gossett Jr.
Louis Gossett Jr. as Fiddler Died 2024 · Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA Louis Gossett Jr. (May 27, 1936 – March 29, 2024) was an American film and television actor, best known for his role as Gunnery Sergeant Emil Foley in the movie "An Officer and a Gentleman" and as Fid...
Avery Brooks
Avery Brooks as Cletus Moyer Age 77 · Evansville, Indiana, USA Avery Franklin Brooks (born October 2, 1948) is an American actor, director, singer, narrator and educator. He is best known for his television roles as Captain Benjamin Sisko on Star Trek: Deep Space...
Kate Mulgrew
Kate Mulgrew as Hattie Carraway Age 71 · Dubuque, Iowa, USA Katherine Kiernan Maria "Kate" Mulgrew (born April 29, 1955) is an American actress, most famous for her roles on Star Trek: Voyager as Captain Kathryn Janeway and Ryan's Hope as Mary Ryan. She has pe...
Shaun Cassidy
Shaun Cassidy as Edmund Parker, Jr. Age 67 · Los Angeles, California, USA
John McMartin
John McMartin as Edmund Parker, Sr. Died 2016 · Warsaw, Indiana, USA From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia John Francis McMartin (August 21, 1929 – July 6, 2016) was an American actor of stage, film and television. Description above from the Wikipedia article John Mc...
Director Kevin Hooks
Cast LeVar Burton, Louis Gossett Jr., Avery Brooks, Kate Mulgrew, Shaun Cassidy, John McMartin, Jerry Hardin, Annabella Price, Michael Learned, Fran Bennett

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