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Roots

Title
Roots [motion picture] / Wolper Productions.
Publication
Wilmette, IL : Films Inc., 1977.

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Additional Authors
  • Haley, Alex
  • Wolper Productions
Description
24 film reels (720 min.) : sd. col.; 16 mm.
Summary
An adaptation of Alex Haley's Roots, in which he traces his family's history from the mid-18th century when one of his ancestors was captured and sold into slavery. Follows the struggle for freedom that began with the boy's abduction to America and continued throughout the generations that followed.
Subjects
Note
  • Based on the book by Alex Haley.
  • CONTENTS: Episode 1: The African (pt. 1); Episode 2: The African (pt. 2); Episode 3: The Slave (pt. 1); Episode 4: The Slave (pt. 2); Episode 5: The Escape; Episode 6: The Choice; Episode 7: Uprooted; Episode 8: Chicken George (pt. 1); Episode 9: Chicken George (pt. 2); Episode 10: The War; Episode 11: Freedom (pt. 1); Episode 12: Freedom (pt. 2).
Credits (note)
  • Producer, Stan Margulies; directors, Marvin Chomsky, David Green, John Erman; writers, William Blinn, Ernest Kinoy.
Performer (note)
  • LeVar Burton, John Amos, Ben Vereen, Cicely Tyson, Thalmus Rasulala, Edward Asner, Ralph Waite, Lorne Green, Vic Morrow, Chuck Connors, John Schuck, Leslie Uggams.
LCCN
77701257
Title
Roots [motion picture] / Wolper Productions.
Imprint
Wilmette, IL : Films Inc., 1977.
Cast
LeVar Burton, John Amos, Ben Vereen, Cicely Tyson, Thalmus Rasulala, Edward Asner, Ralph Waite, Lorne Green, Vic Morrow, Chuck Connors, John Schuck, Leslie Uggams.
Credits
Producer, Stan Margulies; directors, Marvin Chomsky, David Green, John Erman; writers, William Blinn, Ernest Kinoy.
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Haley, Alex. Roots.
Wolper Productions.
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