Roots (Four-Disc 30th Anniversary Edition)

Roots (Four-Disc 30th Anniversary Edition)
by David Greene, Gilbert Moses, John Erman, Marvin J. Chomsky

Roots (Four-Disc 30th Anniversary Edition)
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Actor: Ben Vereen, Ji-Tu Cumbuka, LeVar Burton, Olivia Cole, Vic Morrow
Director: David Greene, Gilbert Moses, John Erman, Marvin J. Chomsky
Brand: Warner Brothers
Producer: David L. Wolper
Writer: Ernest Kinoy
Writer: M. Charles Cohen
Writer: William Blinn
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Box set, Color, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 573 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-05-22
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Warner Home Video

Movie Reviews of Roots (Four-Disc 30th Anniversary Edition)

Movie Review: Roots
Summary: 5 Stars

We are so happy we bought the series "Roots"! Our family has enjoyed watching it together. Schools should require watching it or at least reading the book. It's a huge part of history, that everyone should remember how far we've all come!

Summary of Roots (Four-Disc 30th Anniversary Edition)

Based on Alex Haley's best-selling novel about his African ancestors, Roots followed several generations in the lives of a slave family. The saga began with Kunta Kinte (LeVar Burton), a West African youth captured by slave raiders and shipped to America in the 1700s. The family's saga is depicted up until the Civil War where Kunte Kinte's grandson gained emancipation. Roots made its greatest impression on the ratings and widespread popularity it garnered. On average, 130 million - almost half the country at the time - saw all or part of the series.

DVD Features:
Audio Commentary
Documentaries
Electronic press kit
Featurette
Interviews


From the moment the young Kunta Kinte (LeVar Burton) is stolen from his life and ancestral home in 18th-century Africa and brought under inhumane conditions to be auctioned as a slave in America, a line is begun that leads from this most shameful chapter in U.S. history to the 20th-century author Alex Haley, a Kinte descendant. The late Haley's acclaimed book Roots was adapted into this six-volume television miniseries, which was a widely watched phenomenon in 1977. The programs cover several generations in the antebellum South and end with the story of "Chicken" George, a freed slave played by Ben Vereen whose family feels the agony of entrenched racism and learns to fight it. Between the lives of Kunta and George, we meet a number of memorable characters, black and white, and learn much about the emotional and physical torments of slavery, from beatings and rapes to the forced separation of spouses and families. Nothing like this had ever confronted so many mainstream Americans when the series was originally broadcast, and the extent to which the country was nudged a degree or two toward enlightenment was instantly obvious. Roots still has that ability to open one's eyes, and engage an audience in a sweeping, memorable drama at the same time. --Tom Keogh

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