Roots
Bruce Beresford, Thomas Carter, Phillip Noyce, Mario Van Peebles, 2016
Roots: The Saga of an American Family
Alex Haley, 1976
Roots is a TV mini-series directed by Bruce Beresford, Thomas Carter, Phillip Noyce and Mario Van Peebles in 2016 and based on the book Roots: The Saga of an American Family by Alex Haley, first published in 1976. The TV series features Herbert Cavalier Jr., Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Malachi Kirby, Forest Whitaker, Laurence Fishburne, Babs Olusanmokun, and others.
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Storyline
A historical portrait of one family’s journey through American slavery and their will to survive and preserve their legacy in the face of unimaginable hardship. The series starts in 1760s, and follows the story of Kunta Kinte, a Mandinka warrior from Jufureh in The Gambia, in West Africa, who will be captured and sold to slavery in America.
Movie vs Book
Year
2016
Minutes
90
Movie Rate
7.90
Source: IMDb
TV Mini-Series
Roots
Director: Bruce Beresford, Thomas Carter, Phillip Noyce, Mario Van Peebles
Country: USA
Year: 2016
Length: 1h30m / 4 episodes
Year
1976
Pages
729
Book Rate
8.84
S: Goodreads
Book
Roots: The Saga of an American Family
Author: Alex Haley
Country: USA
First published in: 1976
Length: 729 pages
Genre: Fiction
Other screen adaptations of the book
TV Mini-Series by Marvin J. Chomsky, John Erman, David Greene, Gilbert Moses
TV Mini-Series by Ernest Kinoy
User polls & recommendations
“As an author, it's a strange process to watch your novel turned into a movie. It's tremendously exciting but somewhat voyeuristic.”
MARCUS SAKEY (Writer)
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