Roots: The Gift

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.

• Kevin HooksDirector
• Gerald FriedOriginal Music Composer
• David EyreWriter

• LeVar BurtonKunta Kinte
• Louis Gossett Jr.Fiddler
• Avery BrooksCletus Moyer
• Kate MulgrewHattie Carraway
• Shaun CassidyEdmund Parker, Jr.
• John McMartinEdmund Parker, Sr.
• Jerry HardinWilliam Reynolds
• Annabella PriceSarah Parker
• Michael LearnedAmelia Parker
• Fran BennettMay
• Tim RussMarcellus
• Jimmie F. SkaggsScarvie