Roots: The Next Generations
1979, Series, 120 min, Biography, Drama, History, English, United States, MoviePedia score 70
Roots: The Next Generations is a television miniseries, introduced in 1979, continuing, from 1882 to the 1960s, the fictionalized story of the family of Alex Haley and their life in Henning, Lauderdale County, Tennessee, USA. This sequel to the 1977 miniseries is based on the last seven chapters of Haley's novel entitled Roots: The Saga of an American Family plus additional material by Haley. Roots: The Next Generations was produced with a budget of $16.6 million, nearly three times as large as that of the original.
Directed by John Erman, Charles S. Dubin, Georg Stanford Brown, Lloyd Richards
Cast
- Debbi Morgan as Elizabeth Harvey
- Dorian Harewood as Simon Haley
- Paul Koslo as Earl Crowther
- Stan Shaw as Will Palmer
- Marc Singer as Andy Warner
- Lynn Hamilton as Cousin Georgia Anderson
- Fay Hauser as Carrie Barden
- Irene Cara as Bertha Palmer Haley
- Ruby Dee as Queen Haley
- Henry Fonda as Colonel Frederick Warner
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