Roots (Four-Disc 30th Anniversary Edition)You know every time I watch the film of roots it just takes me through the deepest reminiscence that still today remains as one of the most memorable experience that changed the history of black people. the story has played the immense crucial role in creating the social cohesion between the blacks and whites The root is a 1977 American television miniseries based on
Alex Haley's work
Roots: The Saga of an American Family who happens to be a seventh-generation descendant of Kunta Kinte. Roots received 36 Emmy Award nominations, winning nine; it also won a Golden Globe and a Peabody Award. It received unprecedented Nielsen ratings with the finale still standing as the third-highest rated U.S. television program ever. The serial reached a record-breaking 130 million viewers. Roots emphasized that African Americans have a long history and that not all of that history is necessarily lost, as many believed. Its popularity sparked an increased public interest in genealogy, as well. The saga began with
Kunta Kinte (
LeVar Burton), a West African youth captured by slave raiders and shipped to America in the 1700s. in the Gambia, West Africa, in 1750, Kunta Kinte (LeVar Burton) is born to Muslim Mandinka warrior Omoro Kinte (Thalmus Rasulala) and his wife Binta (Cicely Tyson).
When their son reaches the age of 15, he and a group of other adolescent males take part in a tribal "coming of manhood" ceremony, after which they officially become Mandinka warriors. While trying to find wood outside his village to make a drum for his brother, Kunta is captured by slave traders and put on a slave ship commanded by Captain Davies (Edward Asner) and his first mate Slater (Ralph Waite) for a three-month journey to Colonial America. During the course of their forced journey, a group of African rebels try but fail to take over the ship. Kunta inadvertently kills Slater in the process.The ship lands months later in Annapolis, Maryland, where the captured Africans are sold at auction as slaves. Kunta Kinte is sold to plantation owner John Reynolds (Lorne Greene) and is given the slave name of Toby. An older slave named Fiddler (Louis Gossett Jr) is charged with teaching Toby the ways of being a chattel slave, including learning English. In a desperate struggle to be free and to preserve his Mandinka heritage, he makes several unsuccessful attempts to escape. Kunta doesn't want to give up his Mandinka roots and is reluctant to change his name to Toby and give up his Muslim faith. An overseer named Ames (Vic Morrow) has Kunta Kinte severely whipped, until he submits to his slave name.
The adult Kunta Kinte/Toby (John Amos) eventually learns what it means to be a chattel slave but is haunted by his Mandinka roots and his memories of being free. He submits to the harsh life, but only after having half of his foot severed to keep him from attempting further escapes. He is sold to John Reynolds' brother William (Robert Reed), eventually marrying another slave named Belle (Madge Sinclair), who treats his severed foot. Toby and Belle have a daughter named Kizzy (Leslie Uggams). Kizzy is secretly taught to read and write by Missy Anne (Sandy Duncan), the product of an adulterous affair between John Reynold's wife and Dr. Reynolds.
When Kizzy is in her late teens, she is caught writing a fake travel pass for a boy she is in love with, Noah (Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs). Missy Anne turns her back on Kizzy when Kizzy needs her most, which makes Kizzy think white people aren't to be trusted. She is then sold away to Tom Moore (Chuck Connors) in North Carolina. Kizzy is raped by Moore when she arrives at his plantation and, as a result, gives birth to a son named George.The film was produced by Stan Margulies;
David L. Wolper was executive producer. The now-familiar score was composed by Gerald Fried and Quincy Jones. Surely you wouldn’t like this epic story to bypass you more especially the one that deals with slavery black consciousness and more.
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