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Roots: The Gift (1988)
Directed by Kevin Hooks
Overview
On Christmas Eve 1770, a young African warrior, who three years prior had been captured and sold into slavery in America, leads a desperate group of runaway slaves as they attempt to reach freedom in the North.
Rated PG | Length 93 minutes
Actors
LeVar Burton | Louis Gossett Jr. | Avery Brooks | Kate Mulgrew | Shaun Cassidy | John McMartin | Jerry Hardin | Annabella Price | Michael Learned | Fran Bennett | Tim Russ | Jimmie F. Skaggs | Brandy Brown | Ernest Harden Jr. | Maria Bryant | James McIntire | Lawrence Mandley | John Sherrod | Karl Anthony Smith | J. Christopher Sullivan | Donna Howell | Billy Ray Reynolds | Michael Edwards | Myke R. Mueller | John Murray | Alex Haley | Bernard Peyton | Tina Andrews | Robert Goldman | Debra Perry