Roots (2016)

Directed by

Thomas Carter, Phillip Noyce, Bruce Beresford, Mario Van Peebles

Genre

historical fiction

Country

United States

Length

1 season, 4 episodes

Rated

TV-MA

Rating

6.9 of 10 from 179 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This miniseries follows a Mandinka man from 18th-century West Africa who is captured and forced into slavery in America. It also shows the lives of his descendants over generations.

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What happens

Roots is a 2016 American miniseries and a remake of the 1977 miniseries with the same name, based on Alex Haley's 1976 novel, Roots: The Saga of an American Family, which follows an 18th-century Mandinka man who is enslaved and shipped from The Gambia to the Colony of Virginia, and his descendants. It first aired on May 30, 2016, and stars Malachi Kirby, Forest Whitaker, Anna Paquin, Laurence Fishburne, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Anika Noni Rose, T.I. and South African actress Nokuthula Ledwaba. It was produced on a budget of $50 million. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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