Roots

1 Season
8 Episode

Roots

The Saga of an American Family.


(234 votes, average: 7.40/ 10)

90 minutes 1977 HD

  • Share

The epic tale of celebrated Pulitzer-prize winning author Alex Haley's ancestors as portrayed in the acclaimed twelve hour mini-series Roots, was first told in his 1976 bestseller Roots: The Saga of an American Family. The docu-drama covers a period of history that begins in mid-1700s Gambia, West Africa and concludes during post-Civil War United States, over 100 years later. This 1977 miniseries eventually won 9 Emmy awards, a Golden Globe award, and a Peabody award, and still stands as the most watched miniseries in U.S. history.

img

Season

Similar

  • 1977
    img

    The Rhinemann Exchange

    The Rhinemann Exchange

    6.10 1977 HD

    During World War II, an intelligence officer is dispatched by the U.S. government to arrange an exchange in Argentina of industrial diamonds needed...

    img
  • 1998
    img

    Ultraviolet

    Ultraviolet

    7.09 1998 HD

    With the growing threat of viral epidemic and the possibility of worldwide environmental catastrophe, humanity has an unprecedented ability to...

    img
  • 1991
    img

    G.B.H.

    G.B.H.

    6.50 1991 HD

    GBH was a seven-part British television drama written by Alan Bleasdale shown in the summer of 1991 on Channel 4. The protagonists were Michael...

    img
  • 2023
    img

    My Dearest

    My Dearest

    8.10 2023 HD

    A love-story between a noblewoman and a mysterious man who shows up in her hometown set in the 1600s during the Qing invasion.

    img
  • 2022
    img

    What Six Survivors Told

    What Six Survivors Told

    6.60 2022 HD

    A mysterious pandemic has broken out at Narita Airport and the city is overrun with zombies. Riri Mizukami, a second-year high-school student and...

    img
  • 2008
    img

    The Summit

    The Summit

    5.50 2008 HD

    Set on the eve of the next G8 Summit, this miniseries follows a mother's desperate struggle to bring justice to her murdered son, fallen victim to a...

    img
  • 2014
    img

    The Assets

    The Assets

    7.00 2014 HD

    1985 serves as the backdrop to the final showdown of the Cold War when Sandy and her partner Jeanne Vertefeuille vowed to find the mole that would...

    img
  • 1999
    img

    Queer as Folk

    Queer as Folk

    7.94 1999 HD

    Stuart Jones has got it all. He's rich, drop-dead gorgeous and always the centre of attention. He can be forgiven the arrogance because he's pretty...

    img
  • 2002
    img

    Taken

    Taken

    7.50 2002 HD

    The show takes place from 1944 to 2002 and follows the lives of three families: the Crawfords, who seek to cover up the Roswell crash and the...

    img
  • 1987
    img

    Nutcracker: Money, Madness & Murder

    Nutcracker: Money, Madness & Murder

    6.50 1987 HD

    A sociopathic socialite plots her father's murder.

    img

Recomendation

  • 2016
    img

    Roots

    Roots

    6.86 2016 HD

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

    img
  • 1980
    img

    Hollywood

    Hollywood

    8.31 1980 HD

    A 1980 documentary series exploring the establishment and development of the Hollywood studios and its impact on 1920s culture.

    img
  • 1983
    img

    Ich heirate eine Familie

    Ich heirate eine Familie

    6.90 1983 HD

    Ich heirate eine Familie is a German television series.

    img
  • 2014
    img

    Black Jesus

    Black Jesus

    5.70 2014 HD

    A TV series finds Jesus living in present day Compton, CA on a daily mission to spread love and kindness throughout the neighborhood with the help of...

    img
  • 1976
    img

    Six fois deux/Sur et sous la communication

    Six fois deux/Sur et sous la communication

    7.30 1976 HD

    In this radically unconventional television series, Godard and Miéville analyze the political economy of personal and mass media...

    img
  • 1979
    img

    Roots: The Next Generations

    Roots: The Next Generations

    7.47 1979 HD

    Roots: The Next Generations is a television miniseries, introduced in 1979, continuing, from 1882 to the 1960s, the fictionalized story of the family...

    img
  • 1970
    img

    Geronimo

    Geronimo

    4.80 1970 HD

    Geronimo is a 1993 TNT television movie starring Joseph Runningfox in the title role. First Nations actor Jimmy Herman appeared in this motion...

    img
  • 1975
    img

    Czterdziestolatek

    Czterdziestolatek

    7.47 1975 HD

    Czterdziestolatek or 40-latek was a Polish television comedy series broadcast between 1974 and 1977. The first series enjoyed so much popularity that...

    img
  • 1970
    img

    Earth and the American Dream

    Earth and the American Dream

    6.30 1970 HD

    A documentary of America from the environment's perspective, covering the period from Columbus to the 20th century.

    img
  • 1973
    img

    Den vita stenen

    Den vita stenen

    6.00 1973 HD

    Fia and her mother, a piano-teacher, live in the country villa with bad-tempered housekeeper Malin. One day a boy called Hampus comes to the village...

    img