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
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this series is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
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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Africans in America: America's Journey Through Slavery (1998)- More like this series, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.