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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.
1979.

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Location Call No. Status
 Cromwell-Belden Public Library - Adult DVDs  DVD ROO DISC 1-4    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Audio-Visual Materials  DVD 929.2 HAL  DISC 1    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Audio-Visual Materials  DVD 929.2 HAL  DISC 2    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Audio-Visual Materials  DVD 929.2 HAL  DISC 3    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Audio-Visual Materials  DVD 929.2 HAL  DISC 4    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Media Room DVDs & Blu-rays  DVD ROOTS DISC 1-4    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Audio-Visual Materials  YA DVD ROOTS NEXT GENERATION DISC 1-4    Check Shelf
 Rocky Hill, Cora J. Belden Library - Adult Department  DVD SERIES ROOTS NEXT  DISC 1-2    Check Shelf
 Rocky Hill, Cora J. Belden Library - Adult Department  DVD SERIES ROOTS NEXT  DISC 3-4    Check Shelf
 Southington Library - Adult  DVD ROOTS DISC 1-4    Check Shelf
Description 4 videodiscs (688 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Note Title from container.
System Details DVD ; fullscreen (1.33:1) presentation ; Dolby digital mono.
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 DVD release of episodes originally broadcast as a television mini-series in 1979.
Audience MPAA rating: 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 In English, with optional subtitles in English, French or Spanish.
Closed-captioned.
Note GMD: videorecording.
Subject Haley, Alex -- Drama.
Haley, Alex -- Family -- Drama.
Haley family -- Drama.
Kinte family -- Drama.
African Americans -- Drama.
African American families -- Drama.
Genre/Form Television mini-series.
Biographical television programs.
Historical television programs.
Television programs for the hearing impaired.
Added Author 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, Jr., 1934-2012.
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
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