Alex Haley's Queen (1993)

Directed by

John Erman

Genre

drama

Country

United States

Length

1 season, 3 episodes

Rated

TV-14

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 23 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A miniseries following the life of a biracial woman born into slavery in the 19th century American South. It shows her struggles to find acceptance from both her black and white communities as she grows up through the post-Civil War era.

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What happens

Alex Haley's Queen (also known as Queen) is a 1993 American television miniseries that aired in three installments on February 14, 16, and 18 on CBS. The miniseries is an adaptation of the 1993 novel Queen: The Story of an American Family, by Alex Haley and David Stevens. The novel is based on the life of Queen Jackson Haley, Haley's paternal grandmother. Alex Haley died in February 1992 before completing the novel. It was later finished by David Stevens and published in 1993. Stevens also wrote the screenplay for the miniseries. Alex Haley's Queen was directed by John Erman, and stars Halle Berry in the title role. It tells the life story of a young woman and it shows the problems which biracial slaves and former slaves faced in the United States during the 19th and 20th centuries. Throughout her life, Queen struggles to fit into the two cultures of her heritage; and at times, each side shuns her. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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