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Title Roots, the next generations / a David L. Wolper production in association with Warner Bros. Television ; producer, Stan Margulies ; teleplay by Sydney A. Glass, Ernest Kinoy, Thad Mumford, John McGreevey, Daniel Wilcox ; directed by Georg Stanford Brown, Charles S. Dubin, John Erman, Lloyd Richards.

Publication Info. Burbank, CA : Distributed by Warner Home Video, [2007]

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 Moore Video  PN1992.77 .R6687 2007  discs 1 & 2    Available  Ask at Circulation Desk
 Moore Video  PN1992.77 .R6687 2007  discs 3 & 4    Available  Ask at Circulation Desk
Description 4 DVDs (688 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description digital
optical
mono
Dolby
video file
DVD video
region 1
System Details DVD, region 1, full screen (1.33:1) presentation; Dolby Digital mono.
Note Title from container.
Cast Debbie Allen, Barbara Barrie, Marlon Brando, James Broderick, Georg Stanford Brown, Irene Cara, Diahann Carroll, Bernie Casey, Lee Chamberlin, Michael Constantine, Robert Culp, James Daly, Olivia de Havilland, Ruby Dee, Damon Evans, Norman Fell, Henry Fonda, Al Freeman Jr., Slim Gaillard, Pam Grier, Rosey Grier, Andy Griffith, Dorian Harewood, Kene Holliday, Rafer Johnson, James Earl Jones, Paul Koslo, Avon Long, Claudia McNeil, Carmen McRae, Dina Merrill, Lynne Moody, Harry Morgan, Greg Morris, Roger E. Mosley, Gerald S. O'Loughlin, Beah Richards, Percy Rodrigues, John Rubinstein, Stan Shaw, Marc Singer, Richard Thomas, George Voskovec, Hal Williams, Paul Winfield.
Credits Music, Gerald Fried.
Note Based on "Roots" and "Search" and additional material by Alex Haley.
Developed for television by Ernest Kinoy.
Event Originally broadcast as a television mini-series in 1979.
Audience Not rated.
Summary Follows the Haley family from the post-Civil War era until the more contemporary but still turbulent time of the 1960s and '70s, when Alex himself begins his research into the discovery of his roots.
Contents Disc 1, Side A: Episode 1 -- Disc 1, Side B: Episode 2 -- Disc 2, Side A: Episode 3 -- Disc 2, Side B: Episode 4 -- Disc 3, Side A: Episode 5 -- Disc 3, Side B: Episode 6 -- Disc 4, Side A: Episode 7.
Note Special features: Disc 4: Behind-the-scenes documentary "Roots: the next generations: the legacy continues."
Language English dialogue, English, French or Spanish subtitles; closed-captioned.
Subject Haley, Alex -- Drama.
Haley, Alex.
Genre/Form Drama.
Subject Haley, Alex -- Family -- Drama.
Families.
Haley family -- Drama.
Haley family.
Kinte family -- Drama.
Kinte family.
African Americans -- Drama.
African Americans.
African American families -- Drama.
African American families.
Haley (Familia) -- Teatro.
Familia -- Estados Unidos -- Teatro.
Genre/Form Biographical television programs.
Biographical television programs.
Historical television programs.
Historical television programs.
Television programs for the hearing impaired.
Television programs for the hearing impaired.
Biographical -- Television mini-series.
Television mini-series.
Historical -- Television mini-series.
Television mini-series.
Family -- Television mini-series.
Made-for-TV movies.
Made-for-TV movies.
Video recordings.
Video recordings.
Drama.
Added Author Wolper, David L.
Margulies, Stan.
Glass, Sydney A.
Kinoy, Ernest.
Mumford, Thad.
McGreevey, John.
Wilcox, Daniel.
Brown, Georg Stanford.
Dubin, Charles.
Erman, John, 1935-2021.
Richards, Lloyd, 1919-2006.
Allen, Debbie, 1950-
Barrie, Barbara.
Brando, Marlon.
Broderick, James.
Cara, Irene, 1959-2022.
Carroll, Diahann.
Casey, Bernie.
Chamberlin, Lee.
Constantine, Michael.
Culp, Robert, 1930-2010.
Daly, James, 1918-1978.
De Havilland, Olivia.
Dee, Ruby.
Evans, Damon.
Fell, Norman, 1924-1998.
Fonda, Henry, 1905-1982.
Freeman, Al.
Gaillard, Slim.
Grier, Pam, 1949-
Grier, Rosey.
Griffith, Andy, 1926-2012.
Harewood, Dorian.
Holliday, Kene.
Johnson, Rafer, 1935-2020.
Jones, James Earl.
Koslo, Paul, 1944-2019.
Long, Avon.
McNeil, Claudia.
McRae, Carmen.
Merrill, Dina.
Moody, Lynne.
Morgan, Harry, 1915-2011.
Morris, Greg.
Mosley, Roger E., 1944-2022.
O'Loughlin, Gerald S.
Richards, Beah E.
Rodriguez, Percy.
Rubinstein, John, 1946-
Shaw, Stan, 1952-
Singer, Marc, 1948-
Thomas, Richard, 1951-
Voskovec, Jiří, 1905-1981.
Williams, Hal, 1938-
Winfield, Paul.
Haley, Alex. Roots.
Haley, Alex. My search for roots.
Wolper Productions.
Warner Bros. Television.
Warner Home Video (Firm)
ISBN 9781419846908
1419846906
Standard No. 085391125358
Music No. 112535 Warner Home Video