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Roots: The Gift

Roots: The Gift1988

★7.393 minDramaHistoryTV Movie

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.

Director

Writer

Score

Stars

LeVar Burton Louis Gossett Jr.Avery Brooks

Cast30

LeVar Burton
as Kunta Kinte
Louis Gossett Jr.
as Fiddler
Avery Brooks
as Cletus Moyer
Kate Mulgrew
as Hattie Carraway
Shaun Cassidy
as Edmund Parker, Jr.
John McMartin
as Edmund Parker, Sr.
Jerry Hardin
as William Reynolds
Annabella Price
as Sarah Parker
Michael Learned
as Amelia Parker
Fran Bennett
as May
Tim Russ
as Marcellus
Jimmie F. Skaggs
as Scarvie
B
Brandy Brown
as Arabella
Ernest Harden Jr.
as Nick
M
Maria Bryant
as Lilly
J
James McIntire
as Jubal
Lawrence Mandley
as Boatman
J
John Sherrod
as Driver #1
K
Karl Anthony Smith
as Gaunt Man
J
J. Christopher Sullivan
as Driver #2
D
Donna Howell
as Elly
B
Billy Ray Reynolds
as Christopher
M
Michael Edwards
as Gentleman #1
M
Myke R. Mueller
as Gentleman #2
John Murray
as Bishop Wadley
Alex Haley
as Self - presenter
B
Bernard Peyton
as Jolly
Tina Andrews
as Aurelia (archive footage) (uncredited)
Robert Goldman
as Horseman (uncredited)
Debra Perry
as Slave Girl (uncredited)

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