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
Tina Andrews
as Aurelia (archive footage) (uncredited)
LeVar Burton
as Kunta Kinte
Louis Gossett Jr.
as Fiddler
Annabella Price
as Sarah Parker
Jimmie F. Skaggs
as Scarvie
Ernest Harden Jr.
as Nick
Jerry Hardin
as William Reynolds
Alex Haley
as Self - presenter
Michael Learned
as Amelia Parker
Tim Russ
as Marcellus
Debra Perry
as Slave Girl (uncredited)
Avery Brooks
as Cletus Moyer
Lawrence Mandley
as Boatman
Kate Mulgrew
as Hattie Carraway
Robert Goldman
as Horseman (uncredited)
John Murray
as Bishop Wadley
Shaun Cassidy
as Edmund Parker, Jr.
John McMartin
as Edmund Parker, Sr.
Fran Bennett
as May
