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Release Date: 2007-10-09, Rating: NR (Not Rated)

Winning nine Emmys and viewed by more than 130 million Americans, the NBC mini-series ROOTS greatly impacted American views of slavery and the black experience. It was followed by this massive 14-hour mini-series two years later later in 1979. Although not as popular as the original, this series did garner high ratings and earned an Emmy for Marlon Brando and a nomination for Ruby Dee. Beginning in 1882 where the original series left off, this epic tale follows the African-American experience after...

Roots: The Next Generations [4 Discs] on DVD The phenomenal success of the 1977 ABC miniseries Roots all but demanded a sequel to writer Alex Haley's epic story of his African and African-American forebears. Debuting February 18, 1979, Roots: The Next Generations picked up where its predecessor left off, with Haley's slave ancestors winning their freedom in the aftermath of the Civil War. Even so, life for black Americans was wrought with hardship and oppression thanks to the rise of the Ku Klux...

Could there be a worthy follow-up to the most-watched miniseries ever? But Alex Haley began carrying around a tape recorder, dictating more of his family's tales as they came to his memory. Those remembrances filled a 1,000-page transcript: raw material for Roots: The Next Generations. Thirty years later, it has lost none of its dramatic and emotional power to make us confront history and examine ourselves.

Widescreen; Subtitled - Winning nine Emmys and viewed by more than 130 million Americans, the NBC mini-series ROOTS greatly impacted American views of slavery and the black experience. It was follo...

Could there be a worthy follow-up to the most-watched miniseries ever? "We felt the other did so well," Alex Haley said, "that we should just let it hang there." But Haley began carrying around a tape recorder, dictating more of his family's tales as they came to his memory. Those remembrances filled a 1,000-page transcript: raw material for Roots: The Next Generations. Winner of the Emmy for Best Limited Series, this landmark continuation of a landmark event - with 53 stars and 235 speaking parts...

Tom Harvey's daughter, Cynthia (BANFIELD) falls in love with Will Palmer (SHAW) a railroad worker who soon lands a job at the lumber company. Tensions meanwhile mount in Henning as the white community seeks to strip the blacks of their rights. Will's friend Lee Garnet (MOSLEY) is lynched after accompanying Tom (BROWN) when he fails in his attempt to register to vote.

Simon Haley (HAREWOOD) spends World War I with the 92nd Infantry, Colored, in France. On his return to the States, Simon and his buddies Doxey (WELDON) and Haywood (CASEY) are greeted by a lynch mob in Knoxville, Tennessee. Simon finally arrives in Henning where he marries Bertha (CARA) and announces that they are going to Cornell University where he will take a master's degree in agriculture. Fourteen months later they return to Henning with their first son, Alex Haley.

12-year-old Alex Haley (JOHN) learns his family history from grandfather Will Palmer (SHAW). Simon Haley (HAREWOOD) lands a professorship at an Alabama college where he works with the local rural sharecroppers, helping them increase production, in addition to his classroom work. Bertha (CARA) learns she has an illness.

Roots: The Complete Collection: Roots / Roots: The Next Generations

Alex (played at various ages by Kristoff St. John, Damon Evans, and finally James Earl Jones) is just as determined to succeed in a white man's world as his father, and to that end becomes a professional writer after his own service stint in the Coast Guard during WWII. At the height of his professional success (largely due to his having ghost-written the autobiography of Muslim activist Malcolm X), Alex Haley pays a visit to his boyhood hometown -- where, almost by accident, he receives the first...

Genre: Drama. Category Family Drama, Historical Epic. Theme: Political Unrest, Parenthood, Class Differences, Culture Clash. Studio: Warner Home Video. Run Time: 11 hr 28 min. Language: English. Subtitle Language: French, Spanish, English. Release Date: October 9, 2007.

This film explores the lives of children brought up in families where violence, addiction and neglect were present. It shows the impact parents have on their children and how the healing process is difficult, but possible. 33 Min. ©2006. *The ravages of addiction *The lifelong effects of different types of neglect *How we must heal from these issues and not carry them on to the next generations.

Could there be a worthy follow-up to the most-watched miniseries ever We felt the other did so well; Alex Haley said; that we should just let it hang there. But Haley began carrying around a tape recorder; dictating more of his family's tales as they came to his memory. Those remembrances filled a 1;000-page transcript: raw material for Roots: The Next Generations. Winner of the Emmy for Best Limited Series; this landmark continuation of a landmark event - with 53 stars and 235 speaking parts - is...

James Earl Jones, Al Freeman, Jr., Henry Fonda, Olivia de Havilland. The worthy follow-up to Alex Haley’s Emmy-winning Roots, this sequel picks up after the Civil War with one family’s tale of togetherness and courage as well as one man’s inspiring quest to discover his roots. 4 DVDs. 1979/color/11 hrs., 30 min/NR/widescreen.

The phenomenal success of the 1977 ABC miniseries Roots all but demanded a sequel to writer Alex Haley's epic story of his African and African-American forebears. Debuting February 18, 1979, Roots: The Next Generations picked up where its predecessor left off, with Haley's slave ancestors winning their freedom in the aftermath of the Civil War. Even so, life for black Americans was wrought with hardship and oppression thanks to the rise of the Ku Klux Klan, the staunch refusal of the white power...

Roots:Next Generations Widescreen DVD Retail Price: $59.98 Buy now for $43.9 and FREE SHIPPING on each additional item you buy after the first. The more you buy the more you save! You Save: $16.08 Starring: N/a Genre: Television Rated: NR (MPAA) Runtime: 0 Minutes Features: Box Set Video: Color; Closed Captioned; Widescreen Audio: Languages and Subtitles: English Soundtrack; English Subtitles Studio: WARNER HOME VIDEO DVD Release Date: 10/9/2007 12:00:00 AM