Roots (1977)

Directed by

John Erman, Marvin J. Chomsky

Genre

drama television series, miniseries

Country

United States

Length

1 season, 8 episodes

Rated

NR

Rating

7.4 of 10 from 247 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

The series follows generations of an African American family from their capture in Africa through slavery and into the Reconstruction era. It shows the brutal realities of enslavement and the resilience of those who endured it.

emotionalintensehistoricalsoberingsprawlingheartfeltgraphicpowerful

What happens

Roots is a 1977 American television miniseries based on Alex Haley's 1976 novel Roots: The Saga of an American Family, set during and after the era of enslavement in the United States. The series first aired on ABC in January 1977 over eight consecutive nights. A critical and ratings success over the course of its run, Roots received 37 Primetime Emmy Award nominations and won nine. It also won a Golden Globe and a Peabody Award. It received unprecedented Nielsen ratings for the finale, which holds the record as the third-highest-rated episode for any type of television series, and the second-most-watched overall series finale in American television history. A sequel, Roots: The Next Generations, first aired in 1979, and a second sequel, Roots: The Gift, a Christmas television film, starring LeVar Burton and Louis Gossett Jr., first aired in 1988. A related film, Alex Haley's Queen, is based on the life of Queen Jackson Haley, who was Alex Haley's paternal grandmother. In 2016, a remake of the original miniseries, of the same title, was commissioned by the History Channel and screened by the channel on Memorial Day. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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