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Based on the book: Roots / Alex Haley
Home use only. Public performance rights NOT included
Includes audio commentary by cast and crew with video inserts, featurette Remembering Roots (19 min.), Roots family tree, DVD-ROM features
Originally produced for television in 1977
Director of photography, Stevan Larner (1, 2), Joseph M. Wilcots (3-6) ; editor, Neil Travis (1, 2, 5), James T. Heckert (2, 4-6), Peter Kirby (3) ; music, Quincy Jones (1), Gerald Fried (2-6)
Edward Asner, O.J. Simpson, Ralph Waite, Maya Angelou, Ji-tu Cumbuka, Moses Gunn, Thalmus Rasulala, Harry Rhodes, William Watson, Ren Woods, LeVar Burton, Cicely Tyson, Louis Gossett, Jr., Lorne Greene, Robert Reed, Lynda Day George, Vic Morrow, Paul Shenar, John Amos, Madge Sinclair, Gary Collins, Chuck Connors, Scatman Crothers, Sandy Duncan, George Hamilton, Lawrence-Hilton Jacobs, Carolyn Jones, Richard Roundtree, John Schuck, Leslie Uggams, Ben Vereen, Olivia Cole, Lloyd Bridges, Georg Stanford Brown, Macdonald Carey, Brad Davis, Hilly Hicks, Doug McClure, Ian McShane, Lynne Moody, Burl Ives
DVD player required; Dolby digital mono.; region 1
DVD-ROM system requirements: Pentium/166MHz; 32MB RAM; WIN 95; DVD-ROM drive
Closed-captioned
Soundtrack in English or Spanish; subtitles in English, French or Spanish
