Roots: The Gift
Roots: The Gift
Release: 1988-12-11
·Runtime: 93m
·★ 6.8
Drama
History
TV Movie
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.
Production Countries
United States of America
Production Companies
David L. Wolper Productions
Warner Bros. Television
Cast
Annabella Price
as Sarah Parker
Tina Andrews
as Aurelia (archive footage) (uncredited)
Debra Perry
as Slave Girl (uncredited)
Tim Russ
as Marcellus
John Murray
as Bishop Wadley
Jerry Hardin
as William Reynolds
Michael Learned
as Amelia Parker
Fran Bennett
as May
Ernest Harden Jr.
as Nick
John McMartin
as Edmund Parker, Sr.
Jimmie F. Skaggs
as Scarvie
Alex Haley
as Self - presenter
LeVar Burton
as Kunta Kinte
Kate Mulgrew
as Hattie Carraway
Lawrence Mandley
as Boatman
Louis Gossett Jr.
as Fiddler
Avery Brooks
as Cletus Moyer
Shaun Cassidy
as Edmund Parker, Jr.
Robert Goldman
as Horseman (uncredited)
