Roots: The Gift (1988)
Op kerstavond 1770 leidt een jonge Afrikaanse krijger, die drie jaar eerder in Amerika gevangen was genomen en als slaaf was verkocht, een wanhopige groep weggelopen slaven terwijl ze proberen de vrijheid in het noorden te bereiken.
Regiseur: Kevin Hooks
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LeVar Burton as Kunta Kinte |
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Louis Gossett Jr. as Fiddler |
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Avery Brooks as Cletus Moyer |
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Kate Mulgrew as Hattie Carraway |
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Shaun Cassidy as Edmund Parker, Jr. |
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John McMartin as Edmund Parker, Sr. |
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Jerry Hardin as William Reynolds |
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Annabella Price as Sarah Parker |
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Michael Learned as Amelia Parker |
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Fran Bennett as May |
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Tim Russ as Marcellus |
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Jimmie F. Skaggs as Scarvie |
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Brandy Brown as Arabella |
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Ernest Harden Jr. as Nick |
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Maria Bryant as Lilly |
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James McIntire as Jubal |
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Lawrence Mandley as Boatman |
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John Sherrod as Driver #1 |
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Karl Anthony Smith as Gaunt Man |
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J. Christopher Sullivan as Driver #2 |
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Donna Howell as Elly |
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Billy Ray Reynolds as Christopher |
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Michael Edwards as Gentleman #1 |
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Myke R. Mueller as Gentleman #2 |
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John Murray as Bishop Wadley |
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Alex Haley as Self - presenter |
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Bernard Peyton as Jolly |
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Tina Andrews as Aurelia (archive footage) (uncredited) |
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Robert Goldman as Horseman (uncredited) |
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Debra Perry as Slave Girl (uncredited) |
| Directing | Kevin Hooks | Director |
| Production | Bernard Sofronski | Executive Producer |
| Production | David L. Wolper | Executive Producer |
| Production | Mark Wolper | Producer |
| Sound | Gerald Fried | Original Music Composer |
| Editing | Stanford C. Allen | Editor |
| Camera | John A. Alonzo | Director of Photography |
| Writing | David Eyre | Writer |
| Production | Bill Carroll | Unit Production Manager |
