Forest Whitaker Fiddler as Fiddler. Kerry Sims Slave as Slave. Matthew Goode Dr. William Waller as Dr. William Waller. Emayatzy Corinealdi Belle as Belle. Erica Tazel Matilda as Matilda. Anika Noni Rose Kizzy as Kizzy. Tony Curran Connelly as Connelly. More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. The groundbreaking series reimagined. Biography Drama History War.
Did you know Edit. Trivia LeVar Burton makes a cameo as the slave Ephraim, who is being transported in the caged wagon from the Waller plantation. He stares at Kunta Kinte. Goofs When Kunta Kinte is on the ship heading for America in , the flag used has the red diagonals in the Union Jack.
These we not added until the Act of Union with Ireland in User reviews 70 Review. Top review. The Mandinka kept slaves but the English brought gold and guns. Greed and revenge sends Kunta on a slave ship to America. Despite a slave revolt on the ship, he is sold in Annapolis. He and his descendants struggle under slavery all the way to Chicken George. George is the son of Tom Lea who raped his mother. He trained chicken to fight for his gambling master Tom.
Increased diversity on television comes amid a heightened discussion of race relations in the US. The Black Lives Matter movement has brought attention to the disproportionate violence against African-Americans by police officers.
I don't think so. But I'm hoping that the conversation around Roots when it airs will fill in the gaps so that it is absolutely, unavoidably clear that America today is directly related to America of the antebellum South and the slave trade. And that some of the issues that we still grapple with have their roots in slavery and its attendant legacy of racism.
It includes new sequences, like a devastating Civil War battle at Fort Pillow , in which the victorious Confederates took white Union soldiers hostage and killed or enslaved hundreds of black soldiers.
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History Channel will air a remake of Roots over four consecutive nights, beginning May Ahead of its premiere, Matt Zoller Seitz revisits the original series. Roots is the most important scripted program in broadcast network history. The producer was David L. Once you actually watch it, it seems still more remarkable. Unknown or underappreciated black actors played slaves and former slaves. The face of the production was a young LeVar Burton, who played the Mandinka tribesman Kunta Kinte, the earliest known descendant of the author.
Kunta tries to escape anyway — the first of several attempts — and is savagely whipped by an overseer. As a middle-aged slave now played by John Amos , he tries to escape again and has part of his foot amputated with an ax as punishment.
He was given a choice between that or castration.
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