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Showing Roots is a 2016 American comedy-drama film directed by Michael Wilson and starring Maggie Grace, Elizabeth McGovern, Adam Brody, Uzo Aduba and Cicely Tyson. [1][2] Cast. Maggie Grace as Violet. Uzo Aduba as Pearl. Elizabeth McGovern as Shirley. Adam Brody as Bud. Cicely Tyson as Hattie. Production.
- Roots (1977 miniseries)
Roots is a 1977 American television miniseries based on Alex...
- Roots (1977 miniseries)
Roots is a 1977 American television miniseries based on Alex Haley's 1976 novel Roots: The Saga of an American Family, set during and after the era of enslavement in the United States. The series first aired on ABC in January 1977 over eight consecutive nights.
Showing Roots: Directed by Michael Wilson. With Maggie Grace, Adam Brody, Elizabeth McGovern, Uzo Aduba. Set in the year 1977, two women look to integrate their small town, inspired by the miniseries "Roots" as it hits the airwaves.
- (178)
- Comedy, Drama
- Michael Wilson
- 2016-04-23
The cast of the miniseries included LeVar Burton as Kunta Kinte, Leslie Uggams as Kizzy, and Ben Vereen as Chicken George. A fourteen-hour sequel, Roots: The Next Generations, aired in 1979, featuring the leading black actors of the day. In December 1988, ABC aired a two-hour made-for-TV movie: Roots: The Gift.
- Alex Haley
- 1976
Roots: With Robert Reed, John Amos, Louis Gossett Jr., Lynda Day George. A dramatization of author Alex Haley's family line from ancestor Kunta Kinte's enslavement to his descendants' liberation.
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- 1977-01-23
- Biography, Drama, History
- 74
Roots (TV Mini Series 1977) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
This film stars Robert Mitchum as a WWII Marine sergeant and Deborah Kerr as a Roman Catholic nun. The two are marooned on a South Pacific island, hemmed in by surrounding Japanese troops.
