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1) Roots
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007], c1977
Edition
30th anniversary ed.
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (573 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Follows several generations in the lives of a slave family. The saga begins with Kunta Kinte, a West African youth captured by slave raiders and shipped to America in the 1700s. The family is depicted up until the Civil War, when Kunte Kinte's grandson gains his emancipation.
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2017
Physical Desc
1 digital videodisc (ca. 94 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Master documentary filmmaker Raoul Peck envisions the book James Baldwin never finished. The result is a radical, up-to-the-minute examination of race in America, using Baldwin's original words and a flood of rich archival material. A journey into black history that connects the past of the Civil Rights movement to the present of #BlackLivesMatter.