It’s to the credit of History Channel’s reimagining of Alex Haley’s Roots that the most pointed criticism that can…
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Cast
LeVar Burton (Kunta Kinte)Robert Reed (Dr. William Reynolds)John Amos (Older Kunta Kinte)Louis Gossett Jr. (Fiddler)Lynda Day George (Mrs. Reynolds)Olivia Cole (Mathilda)Madge Sinclair (Bell Reynolds)Ben Vereen (Chicken George Moore)Lloyd Bridges (Evan Brent)Chuck Connors (Tom Moore)Georg Stanford Brown (Tom Harvey)Lorne Greene (John Reynolds)Ralph Waite (Slater)Sandy Duncan (Missy Anne Reynolds)Brad Davis (Old George)Edward Asner (Capt. Thomas Davies)Ji-Tu Cumbuka (Wrestler)Hilly Hicks (Lewis Harvey)
Creators
William Blinn, M. Charles Cohen, Alex Haley, Ernest Kinoy, James Lee
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Synopsis
A dramatization of author Alex Haley's family line from ancestor Kunta Kinte's enslavement to his descendants' liberation.
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