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Roots

Name: Roots
Director: Bruce Beresford
Released: 2016

2016 American miniseries

TV seriesminiseries television seriesQ22905755

Started: May 30, 2016
Ended: June 2, 2016
Network: History
Seasons: 1
Episodes: 4
Cast: Malachi Kirby
, Forest Whitaker
, Anna Paquin
, Laurence Fishburne
+6 more
Genre: historical fiction
Country of origin: United States
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Roots is a 2016 American miniseries and a remake of the 1977 miniseries with the same name, based on Alex Haley's 1976 novel, Roots: The Saga of an American Family, which follows an 18th-century Mandinka man who is enslaved and shipped from The Gambia to the Colony of Virginia, and his descendants. It first aired on May 30, 2016, and stars Malachi Kirby, Forest Whitaker, Anna Paquin, Laurence Fishburne, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Anika Noni Rose, T.I. and South African actress Nokuthula Ledwaba. It was produced on a budget of $50 million.

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