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Roots

Title: Roots / directed by Bruce Beresford, Thomas Carter, Phillip Noyce, Mario Van Peebles.
Publication: [Santa Monica, California] : A & E Television Networks, LLC : Distributed by Lionsgate, [2016]

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Description

3 videodiscs (approximately 389 min.) : sound, color; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

The gripping story is told through four generations, from the capture of Kunta Kinte in Africa to his transport to Colonial America in brutal conditions through successive generations fighting to win their freedom in the Civil War.

Uniform Title

Roots (Television program : 2016)

Subject

Genre/Form

Biographical television programs.
Historical television programs.
Television adaptations.
Fiction television programs.
Television mini-series.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Note

Based on the novel "Roots" by Alex Haley.

Credits (note)

Screenwriters, Lawrence Konner, Alison McDonald, Charles Murray, Mark Rosenthal ; producers, Ann Kindberg, Cheryl Eatock ; cinematographers, Peter Menzies, Jr., Sharone Meir ; film editors, Greg Babor, David Beatty, Neil Mandelberg, Martin Nicholson, James D. Wilcox ; composers, Alex Heffes, Phillip Noyce ; History presents ; an A+E Studios production ; in association with Marc Toberoff Productions and the Wolper Organization.

Performer (note)

Laurence Fishburne, Matthew Goode, Malachi Kirby, Derek Luke, Chris Obi, Babatunde Olusanmokun, James Purefoy, Forest Whitaker, Kedar Williams-Stirling, Simona Brown, Tony Curran, Hakeem Kae-Kazim, Katie McGuinness, Emayatzy Corinealdi, E'Myri Lee Crutchfield, G. Hannelius, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Mandela van Peebles, Shannon Lucio, Chad L. Coleman, Regé-Jean Page, Anika Noni Rose, Michael James Shaw, Erica Tazel, Brett Rice, Mark Rolston, Lane Garrison, Tip 'TI' Harris, Anna Paquin, Mekhi Phifer, Sedale Threatt, Jr.

Event (note)

Originally broadcast as a television mini-series in 2016.

System Details (note)

DVD; region 1, NTSC; widescreen (1.78:1) presentation; Dolby Digital 5.1.

Language (note)

English dialogue with optional Spanish subtitles and English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.

Contents

Disc 1. Night 1 / directed by Phillip Noyce -- Night 2 / directed by Mario Van Peebles. Disc 2. Night 3/ directed by Thomas Carter -- Night 4 / directed by Bruce Beresford -- Disc 3. Bonus feature. Roots: a history revealed.

Call Number

Sc Visual DVD-1988

ISBN

9786316568878
6316568878

LCCN

031398247586
031398248941
00031398247586

OCLC

953420848

Title

Roots / directed by Bruce Beresford, Thomas Carter, Phillip Noyce, Mario Van Peebles.

Publisher

[Santa Monica, California] : A & E Television Networks, LLC : Distributed by Lionsgate, [2016]

Country of Producing Entity

United States

Type of Content

two-dimensional moving image

Type of Medium

video

Type of Carrier

videodisc

Cast

Laurence Fishburne, Matthew Goode, Malachi Kirby, Derek Luke, Chris Obi, Babatunde Olusanmokun, James Purefoy, Forest Whitaker, Kedar Williams-Stirling, Simona Brown, Tony Curran, Hakeem Kae-Kazim, Katie McGuinness, Emayatzy Corinealdi, E'Myri Lee Crutchfield, G. Hannelius, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Mandela van Peebles, Shannon Lucio, Chad L. Coleman, Regé-Jean Page, Anika Noni Rose, Michael James Shaw, Erica Tazel, Brett Rice, Mark Rolston, Lane Garrison, Tip 'TI' Harris, Anna Paquin, Mekhi Phifer, Sedale Threatt, Jr.

Credits

Screenwriters, Lawrence Konner, Alison McDonald, Charles Murray, Mark Rosenthal ; producers, Ann Kindberg, Cheryl Eatock ; cinematographers, Peter Menzies, Jr., Sharone Meir ; film editors, Greg Babor, David Beatty, Neil Mandelberg, Martin Nicholson, James D. Wilcox ; composers, Alex Heffes, Phillip Noyce ; History presents ; an A+E Studios production ; in association with Marc Toberoff Productions and the Wolper Organization.

System Details

DVD; region 1, NTSC; widescreen (1.78:1) presentation; Dolby Digital 5.1.

Event

Originally broadcast as a television mini-series in 2016.

Language

English dialogue with optional Spanish subtitles and English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.

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Added Author

Noyce, Phillip, television director.

Kindberg, Ann, television producer.

Eatock, Cheryl, television producer.

Kantrow, Alissa M. (Alissa Miller), 1969- television producer.

Konner, Lawrence, screenwriter.

Rosenthal, Mark D., screenwriter.

Meir, Sharone, director of photography.

Heffes, Alex, composer (expression)

Miller, Philip, 1964- composer (expression)

Babor, Greg, editor of moving image work.

Fishburne, Laurence, III, 1961- actor.

Goode, Matthew, 1978- actor.

Kirby, Malachi, 1989- actor.

Luke, Derek, 1974- actor.

Purefoy, James, 1964- actor.

Whitaker, Forest, actor.

Nicholson, Martin (Film editor), editor of moving image work.

Obi, Chris, actor.

Van Peebles, Mario, television director.

Olusanmokun, Babs, actor.

McDonald, Alison (Screenwriter), screenwriter.

Wilcox, James D., editor of moving image work.

Williams-Stirling, Kedar, actor.

Corinealdi, Emayatzy, 1980- actor.

Brown, Simona, actor.

Curran, Tony, 1969- actor.

Rhys-Meyers, Jonathan, 1977- actor.

Kae-Kazim, Hakeem, actor.

McGuinness, Katie, actor.

Menzies, Peter, Jr., director of photography.

Carter, Thomas, 1953- television director.

Murray, Charles (Screenwriter), screenwriter.

Mandelberg, Neil, editor of moving image work.

Crutchfield, E'myri, actor.

Coleman, Chad, actor.

Hannelius, G. (Genevieve), 1998- actor.

Page, Regé-Jean, actor.

Rose, Anika Noni, 1972- actor.

Tazel, Erica, actor.

Van Peebles, Mandela, 1994- actor.

Lucio, Shannon, 1980- actor.

Beresford, Bruce, television director.

Beatty, David, editor of moving image work.

Shaw, Michael James, actor.

T. I., 1980- actor.

Rice, Brett, 1954- actor.

Paquin, Anna, actor.

Rolston, Mark, actor.

Phifer, Mekhi, 1975- actor.

Garrison, Lane, 1980- actor.

Threatt, Sedale, Jr., actor.

Television adaptation of (work): Haley, Alex. Roots.

History (Television network), presenter.

A+E Studios, production company.

Marc Toberoff Productions, production company.

Wolper Organization, production company.

Arts and Entertainment Network, publisher.

Lions Gate Entertainment (Firm), distributor.

Other Standard Identifier

031398247586

031398248941 81

00031398247586 gtin-14

Publisher No.

49983 A & E Television Networks, LLC.

50132 A & E Television Networks, LLC.

Research Call Number

Sc Visual DVD-1988

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