Roots: The Gift
Overview
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.
- Production
- David L. Wolper Productions, Warner Bros. Television
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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.
Jerry Hardin
William Reynolds
Annabella Price
Sarah Parker
Michael Learned
Amelia Parker
Fran Bennett
May
Tim Russ
Marcellus
Jimmie F. Skaggs
Scarvie
Ernest Harden Jr.
Nick
Lawrence Mandley
Boatman
John Murray
Bishop Wadley
Alex Haley
Self - presenter
Tina Andrews
Aurelia (archive footage) (uncredited)
Robert Goldman
Horseman (uncredited)
Debra Perry
Slave Girl (uncredited)
Crew
- Director
- Kevin Hooks
- Writers
- David Eyre
- Producers
- Bernard Sofronski,David L. Wolper,Mark Wolper
- Cinematography
- John A. Alonzo
- Composer
- Gerald Fried
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