Roots (Four-Disc 30th Anniversary Edition)

Roots (Four-Disc 30th Anniversary Edition)
by David Greene, Gilbert Moses, John Erman, Marvin J. Chomsky

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Actor: Ben Vereen, Ji-Tu Cumbuka, LeVar Burton, Olivia Cole, Vic Morrow
Director: David Greene, Gilbert Moses, John Erman, Marvin J. Chomsky
Brand: Warner Brothers
Producer: David L. Wolper
Writer: Ernest Kinoy
Writer: M. Charles Cohen
Writer: William Blinn
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Box set, Color, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 573 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-05-22
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Warner Home Video

DVD Reviews of Roots (Four-Disc 30th Anniversary Edition)

DVD Review: Roots
Summary: 5 Stars

We are so happy we bought the series "Roots"! Our family has enjoyed watching it together. Schools should require watching it or at least reading the book. It's a huge part of history, that everyone should remember how far we've all come!

DVD Review: Great Classroom Tool
Summary: 5 Stars

I am a Social Studies teacher of African-American Studies and I purchased this film to show to my classes. I rfemember watching this mini-series as a teenager and being absolutely amazed by the way things were for African-Americans in the past. Today, teenagers seem to know less and less about History, especially African-American history and this serves as a great tool to teach them while also entertaining them. I highly recommend this product for teachers, parents, and all people in general to who wish to see and learn about a part of America's History which is so often swept under the rug ortucked away in a dark corner.

DVD Review: dvd
Summary: 5 Stars

One of the greatest historical movie of all time. Watch with an open heart and mind to be able to really get a feeling of the times Roots was written. Great sale and quick delivery AAA++++++++++++++++

DVD Review: The movie that almost was!
Summary: 5 Stars

The movie, as I remember was excellent;however due to a mix up of sorts with the delivery, I never recieved this item. The merchant was qiuck to address the mix up once notified, I would order from them again.

DVD Review: A must see for every generation....
Summary: 5 Stars

I had to purchase this so I can share it with my children. I remember how moved I was by the miniseries as I was growing up and I feel strongly that I want to watch it with my children and then have a opoen dialogue about their thoughts and feelings. I am looking forward to watching the whole thing again.....

Description of Roots (Four-Disc 30th Anniversary Edition)

Based on Alex Haley's best-selling novel about his African ancestors, Roots followed several generations in the lives of a slave family. The saga began with Kunta Kinte (LeVar Burton), a West African youth captured by slave raiders and shipped to America in the 1700s. The family's saga is depicted up until the Civil War where Kunte Kinte's grandson gained emancipation. Roots made its greatest impression on the ratings and widespread popularity it garnered. On average, 130 million - almost half the country at the time - saw all or part of the series.

DVD Features:
Audio Commentary
Documentaries
Electronic press kit
Featurette
Interviews

From the moment the young Kunta Kinte (LeVar Burton) is stolen from his life and ancestral home in 18th-century Africa and brought under inhumane conditions to be auctioned as a slave in America, a line is begun that leads from this most shameful chapter in U.S. history to the 20th-century author Alex Haley, a Kinte descendant. The late Haley's acclaimed book Roots was adapted into this six-volume television miniseries, which was a widely watched phenomenon in 1977. The programs cover several generations in the antebellum South and end with the story of "Chicken" George, a freed slave played by Ben Vereen whose family feels the agony of entrenched racism and learns to fight it. Between the lives of Kunta and George, we meet a number of memorable characters, black and white, and learn much about the emotional and physical torments of slavery, from beatings and rapes to the forced separation of spouses and families. Nothing like this had ever confronted so many mainstream Americans when the series was originally broadcast, and the extent to which the country was nudged a degree or two toward enlightenment was instantly obvious. Roots still has that ability to open one's eyes, and engage an audience in a sweeping, memorable drama at the same time. --Tom Keogh

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