Roots
Directed by:
Phillip NoyceCinematography:
Sharone MeirCast:
Laurence Fishburne, Matthew Goode, Malachi Kirby, Derek Luke, Chris Obi, James Purefoy, Forest Whitaker, Kedar Williams-Stirling, Simona Brown, Tony Curran, Hakeem Kae-Kazim, LeVar Burton (more)Plots(1)
In 1750 in the river region of The Gambia in West Africa, Omoro Kinte and his wife, Binta, have their first child, a son named Kunta. Kunta is trained in Mandinka customs and is a dedicated student who dreams of traveling to the university. After being kidnapped and captured by the Koros, Kunta is sold to British slave traders in 1767 and is shipped to America. In Annapolis, Maryland, he is sold to a Virginia planter named John Waller and is given the slave name Toby. Kunta strongly resists his new name and enslavement. He relies on the wise counsel of Fiddler, an assimilated slave and sophisticated musician who has been assigned to train him (History Channel)
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