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Roots: The Gift

19881h 33min

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.

Cast

LeVar Burton

Kunta Kinte

Louis Gossett Jr.

Fiddler

Avery Brooks

Cletus Moyer

Kate Mulgrew

Hattie Carraway

Shaun Cassidy

Edmund Parker, Jr.

John McMartin

Edmund Parker, Sr.

Jerry Hardin

William Reynolds

Annabella Price

Sarah Parker

Michael Learned

Amelia Parker

Fran Bennett

May

Tim Russ

Marcellus

Jimmie F. Skaggs

Scarvie

Brandy Brown

Arabella

Ernest Harden Jr.

Nick

Maria Bryant

Lilly

James McIntire

Jubal

Lawrence Mandley

Boatman

John Sherrod

Driver #1

Karl Anthony Smith

Gaunt Man

J. Christopher Sullivan

Driver #2

Donna Howell

Elly

Billy Ray Reynolds

Christopher

Michael Edwards

Gentleman #1

Myke R. Mueller

Gentleman #2

John Murray

Bishop Wadley

Alex Haley

Self - presenter

Bernard Peyton

Jolly

Tina Andrews

Aurelia (archive footage) (uncredited)

Robert Goldman

Horseman (uncredited)

Debra Perry

Slave Girl (uncredited)

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