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Roots: The Gift
1988, Dec 11
1h 33m
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.
Directed by
Kevin Hooks
Written by
David Eyre
Louis Gossett Jr.
Fiddler
Kate Mulgrew
Hattie Carraway
John McMartin
Edmund Parker, Sr.
Michael Learned
Amelia
Annabella Price
Sarah
Tim Russ
Marcellus
Avery Brooks
Cletus Moyer
LeVar Burton
Kunta Kinte
Ernest Harden Jr.
Nick
Shaun Cassidy
Edmund Parker, Jr.
Jerry Hardin
Reynolds
Fran Bennett
May
Tina Andrews
Aurelia (archive footage) (uncredited)
Robert Goldman
Horseman (uncredited)
Brandy Brown
Arabella
Maria Bryant
Lilly
Michael Edwards
Gentleman #1
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