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Roots: The Gift(1988)
Status: Released
Date: 1988-12-11
68%
12 Votes
Time: 1h 33m
Overview:
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.
Languages: English.
Countries:
United States of America
ProductionCompanies: 
David L. Wolper Productions
Movie: Roots: The Gift
Top 10 Billed Cast
LeVar Burton
Kunta Kinte
Louis Gossett Jr.
Fiddler
Jerry Hardin
Reynolds
Kate Mulgrew
Hattie Carraway
Shaun Cassidy
Edmund Parker, Jr.
Avery Brooks
Cletus Moyer
Michael Learned
Amelia
John McMartin
Edmund Parker, Sr.
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Overview
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.
Release Date
1988-12-11
Average
6.8
Rating:
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