Roots: The Gift
Roots: The Gift

Roots: The Gift

6.8
December 11, 1988
1h 33m
DramaHistoryTV Movie

Overview

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.

Director

Kevin Hooks

Cast

LeVar Burton

LeVar Burton

Kunta Kinte

Louis Gossett Jr.

Louis Gossett Jr.

Fiddler

Avery Brooks

Avery Brooks

Cletus Moyer

Kate Mulgrew

Kate Mulgrew

Hattie Carraway

Shaun Cassidy

Shaun Cassidy

Edmund Parker, Jr.

John McMartin

John McMartin

Edmund Parker, Sr.

Jerry Hardin

Jerry Hardin

William Reynolds