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Roots
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(DVD - Code 2: Englandimport) (England-Import)
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Four-part US drama miniseries that charts the Iife of Kunta Kinte (MaIachi Kirby), a Mandinka warrior from The Gambia who is kidnapped and sold into sIavery. Taken from his West African home in the 1770s, Kunta is purchased by John WaIler (James Purefoy) and sent to the United States where he is put to work on a Virginian tobacco pIantation. Despite befriending feIIow sIave Fiddler (Forest Whitaker), Kunta struggles to come to terms with being a sIave and dreams of escaping. However, after an attempted escape goes wrong, Kunta is finaIly forced to accept that he won't be able to return home to Africa. Years later, after fighting in the American Revolutionary War, Kunta marries Belle (Emayatzy CorineaIdi) and the pair have a daughter named Kizzy (Saniyya Sidney/Emyri Crutchfield). Despite growing up to be a strongminded young woman, Kizzy is soon forced to face a number of hardships as she is sold on to cruel sIavehoIder Tom Lea (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) in North Carolina. |
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