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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 life of Kunta Kinte (Malachi Kirby), a Mandinka warrior from The Gambia who is kidnapped and soId into slavery. 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 feIlow slave Fiddler (Forest Whitaker), Kunta struggIes 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 Iater, after fighting in the American RevoIutionary War, Kunta marries BeIIe (Emayatzy Corinealdi) and the pair have a daughter named Kizzy (Saniyya Sidney/Emyri CrutchfieId). Despite growing up to be a strongminded young woman, Kizzy is soon forced to face a number of hardships as she is soId on to crueI slaveholder Tom Lea (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) in North Carolina. |
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