Roots

About Roots

An adaptation of Alex Haley's "Roots", chronicling the history of an African slave, Kunta Kinte sold to America and his descendants.

Roots is an action-adventure series made for History. Its one season of 4 episodes aired between May 2016 and June 2016.

Malachi Kirby appears as Kunta Kinte, Jonathan Rhys Meyers as Tom Lea, Forest Whitaker as Fiddler, and Laurence Fishburne as Alex Haley. It was produced by A+E Studios, Will Packer Productions, and Wolper Organization. It is adapted from a novel.

Shelv files it under 18th century, slavery, plantation, and miniseries. It streams on Amazon Prime Video and Amazon Prime Video with Ads in the United States.

Alex Haley's Queen, The Long Song, and The Queen's Gambit make useful companions to Roots. It scores 6.9 out of 10 from 180 TMDB voters and it carries a TV-MA rating.