On Christmas Eve 1770, a young African warrior, who three years prior had been captured and sold into slavery in America, leads a desperate group of runaway slaves as they attempt to reach freedom in the North.
Director
Writer
LeVar Burton
Kunta Kinte
Louis Gossett Jr.
Fiddler
Jerry Hardin
Reynolds
Kate Mulgrew
Hattie Carraway
Shaun Cassidy
Edmund Parker, Jr.
Avery Brooks
Cletus Moyer
Michael Learned
Amelia
John McMartin
Edmund Parker, Sr.
Ernest Harden Jr.
Nick
Annabella Price
Sarah
Fran Bennett
May
Tim Russ
Marcellus
Debra Perry
Slave Girl (uncredited)
Robert Goldman
Horseman (uncredited)
Tina Andrews
Aurelia (archive footage) (uncredited)
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StatusReleased: 36 years agoDecember 11, 1988
LanguageEnglish
Spoken LanguagesEnglish
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