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Roots (Four-Disc 30th Anniversary Edition)

Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 0085391144854
Format: Box set, Color, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 4
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: May 22, 2007
Running Time: 573 minutes
Sales Rank: 3044
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: January 23, 1977

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Editorial Review:

Product Description:
Based on Alex Haley's best-selling novel about his African ancestors Roots followed several generations in the lives of a slave family. The saga began with Kunta Kinte (LeVar Burton) a West African youth captured by slave raiders and shipped to America in the 1700s. The family's saga is depicted up until the Civil War where Kunte Kinte's grandson gained emancipation. Roots made its greatest impression on the ratings and widespread popularity it garnered. On average 130 million - almost half the country at the time - saw all or part of the series.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA Rating: NR UPC: 085391144854 Manufacturer No: 114485

Amazon.com essential video:
From the moment the young Kunta Kinte (LeVar Burton) is stolen from his life and ancestral home in 18th-century Africa and brought under inhumane conditions to be auctioned as a slave in America, a line is begun that leads from this most shameful chapter in U.S. history to the 20th-century author Alex Haley, a Kinte descendant. The late Haley's acclaimed book Roots was adapted into this six-volume television miniseries, which was a widely watched phenomenon in 1977. The programs cover several generations in the antebellum South and end with the story of 'Chicken' George, a freed slave played by Ben Vereen whose family feels the agony of entrenched racism and learns to fight it. Between the lives of Kunta and George, we meet a number of memorable characters, black and white, and learn much about the emotional and physical torments of slavery, from beatings and rapes to the forced separation of spouses and families. Nothing like this had ever confronted so many mainstream Americans when the series was originally broadcast, and the extent to which the country was nudged a degree or two toward enlightenment was instantly obvious. Roots still has that ability to open one's eyes, and engage an audience in a sweeping, memorable drama at the same time. --Tom Keogh




Rating: - A Really Great Story!
This miniseries is well worth watching again or for the first time if you never have. It is very ... Read More

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Rating: - Roots review
This production brings this sad part of history to life superbly. I remembered it from 30 years ago ... Read More

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Rating: - Roots
I have always loved the movie, Roots. It was hard to watch when it first came out and it was even harder ... Read More

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Rating: - Classic
This product arrive in excellent condition for a Used item. The disc are clean without scratches and there ... Read More

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Rating: - movie series great, but dvd quality needed
This was a great movie series with some "soul" and excellent characterization, and hated to see it end. But ... Read More

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