Roots: The Gift

Roots: The Gift

93 mins | Drama, History, TV Movie | Dec. 11, 1988

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.

Roots: The Gift

93 mins | Drama, History, TV Movie | Dec. 11, 1988

Roots: The Gift
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.
IMDb rating 6.6
Producers
Original title Roots: The Gift
Directors Kevin Hooks
Writers David Eyre Jr.

Cast

LeVar Burton

as Kunta Kinte

Louis Gossett Jr.

as Fiddler

Jerry Hardin

as Reynolds

Kate Mulgrew

as Hattie Carraway

Shaun Cassidy

as Edmund Parker, Jr.

Avery Brooks

as Cletus Moyer

Michael Learned

as Amelia

John McMartin

as Edmund Parker, Sr.

Brandy Brown

as Arabella

Maria Bryant

as Lilly

Annabella Price

as Sarah

Fran Bennett

as May

Tim Russ

as Marcellus

Michael Edwards

as Gentleman #1