Roots: The Next Generations
Ernest Kinoy, 1979
Roots: The Saga of an American Family
Alex Haley, 1976
Roots: The Next Generations is a TV mini-series created by Ernest Kinoy in 1979 and based on the book Roots: The Saga of an American Family by Alex Haley, first published in 1976. The TV series features Debbi Morgan, Dorian Harewood, Paul Koslo, Stan Shaw, Marc Singer, Lynn Hamilton, and others.
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Storyline
The series continues the story of Alex Haley’s family line from the Post American Civil War era to Alex Haley’s geneological search to discover his roots. Tom, a great-grandson of Kunta Kinte, has become a leader of the black community in Henning. Although he has established a working relationship with the town’s white leader, race relations are strained, due in part to the new Jim Crow laws and similar influences.
Movie vs Book
Year
1979
Minutes
840
Movie Rate
7.80
Source: IMDb
TV Mini-Series
Roots: The Next Generations
Creator: Ernest Kinoy
Country: USA
Year: 1979
Length: 14h / 7 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 Bruce Beresford, Thomas Carter, Phillip Noyce, Mario Van Peebles
User polls & recommendations
“I feel like my brain is more geared towards a novel than it is to a movie.”
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