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Roots

2016
TV-MA
Biography/Drama/History

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Cast

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Jonathan Rhys Meyers
Tom Lea
Malachi Kirby
Kunta Kinte
Forest Whitaker
Fiddler
Laurence Fishburne
Alex Haley
Babs Olusanmokun
Omoro Kinte
Kerry Sims
Slave
Tevin Paul
Freed Slave Soldier
Matthew Goode
Dr. William Waller
Regé-Jean Page
Chicken George
Emayatzy Corinealdi
Belle
Shannon Lucio
Patricia Lea
James Purefoy
John Waller
Erica Tazel
Matilda
Derek Luke
Silla Ba Dibba
Katie McGuinness
Elizabeth Waller
Anika Noni Rose
Kizzy
Tony Curran
Connelly
Adam Fergus
Sir Eric Russell

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Synopsis

An adaptation of Alex Haley's "Roots", chronicling the history of an African man sold to slavery in America, and his descendants.

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