Roots
2016
📺 1 Season
🎬 4 Episodes
📅 Ended
🌐 EN
⏱️ 90 min/episode
DramaAction & Adventure
An adaptation of Alex Haley's "Roots", chronicling the history of an African slave, Kunta Kinte sold to America and his descendants.
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Seasons
Season 1
In the river region of The Gambia in 1750, Omoro Kinte and his wife, Binta, give birth to a son, Kunta. Kunta is kidnapped in 1767 and sold to British slave traders. After arriving in Maryland, Virginia planter John Waller purchases Kunta.
Cast
Crew
Producer
Will Packer, Ann Kindberg, Mark Wolper
Network
History
Production
A+E Studios, Will Packer Productions, Wolper Organization
Keywords
based on novel or bookslaveryplantationremakeminiseries18th centuryhistorical dramakunta kinte