Screenplay: Alex Haley

Direction Ernest Kinoy · Georg Stanford Brown · Charles S. Dubin · John Erman

Cast Georg Stanford Brown · Olivia de Havilland · Henry Fonda · Marlon Brando

Synopsis 14 Episodes -one hour each-. This series continues the story of Alex Haley's family line from the Post American Civil War era to Alex Haley's genealogical search to discover his roots.

Direction Marvin J. Chomsky · John Erman · David Greene · Gilbert Moses

Cast Todd Bridges · Robert Reed · John Amos · Madge Sinclair

Synopsis From the moment the young Kunta Kinte (LeVar Burton) is stolen from his life and ancestral home in 18th-century Africa and brought under inhumane conditions to be auctioned as a slave in America, a line is begun that leads from...

Direction Bruce Beresford · Thomas Carter · Phillip Noyce · Mario Van Peebles

Cast Malachi Kirby · Laurence Fishburne · Forest Whitaker · Emayatzy Corinealdi

Synopsis TV Miniseries (2016). 4 Episodes. An adaptation of Alex Haley's "Roots", chronicling the history of an African slave sold to America and his descendants.

Direction Spike Lee

Cast Denzel Washington · Angela Bassett · Albert Hall · Al Freeman Jr.

Synopsis Spike Lee brings the life of African-American leader Malcolm X (an intense Denzel Washington in an Oscar-nominated performance) to the big screen in this sprawling, epic biographical drama. Born Malcolm Little, son of a Nebraska preacher, on May 19, 1925,...

Direction John Erman

Cast Ann-Margret · Halle Berry · Patricia Clarkson · Danny Glover

Synopsis A plantation owner's son falls in love with a slave named Easter and together they have a light-skinned daughter named Queen. As Queen growns up, she faces the struggle of trying to fit into the troubled world around her. She...

Direction Peter Werner

Cast Cicely Tyson · Erika Alexander · Blair Underwood · Mario Van Peebles

Synopsis Cicely Tyson stars in the title role of the aging matriarch of a black family whose life of struggle, tragedy and perseverance is chronicled in this moving drama based on a story by Alex Haley.

Direction Ron O'Neal

Cast Ron O'Neal · Roscoe Lee Browne · Sheila Frazier · Robert Guillaume

Synopsis A Harlem drug dealer and his girlfriend retire to Rome, where he joins an African revolution.

Direction Arnold Pee

Synopsis Acclaimed documentary based on Malcolm X's own autobiography.

Direction Larry Elikann · Jeffrey Hayden · Peter Levin · Ivan Dixon

Cast Michael J. Fox · Bill Duke · Beeson Carroll · Jonelle Allen

Synopsis TV Series (1980-1981). 2 seasons. Two young boys, one black and one white would defy their small town's racist attitude to become the best of friends.