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Roots - The Next Generations Director: Georg Stanford Brown, Charles S. Dubin, John Erman, Lloyd Richards Cast: Georg Stanford Brown, Olivia de Havilland, Henry Fonda, Paul Koslo

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  • DVD Release Date: 10/09/2007
  • Original Release: 1979
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Behind-the-scenes documentary; Roots: The Next Generations - The Legacy Continues

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Disc #1, Side A -- Roots: The Next Generations - Episode 1
1. Prologue and Credits [3:37]
2. Chicken Stories [4:48]
3. Kindred Spirits [6:34]
4. The Train Station [4:00]
5. First-Class or Jim Crow? [3:26]
6. Politics vs. Truth [3:07]
7. A Mama's Business [2:42]
8. Accepting a Ride [4:49]
9. Elizabeth's Suitor [6:47]
10. Follow Your Feelings [2:34]
11. Not Suitable for Ladies [2:44]
12. Too White [6:35]
13. Elizabeth's Vow [3:47]
14. Double Standard [3:35]
15. Jim's Declaration [2:51]
16. Family Friction [5:23]
17. God's Doing [4:35]
18. Chicken George's Accident [3:14]
19. The Matter of Carrie [2:43]
20. Jump, Jim Crow [3:54]
21. The Colonel's News [3:01]
22. "I Have No Brother" [2:11]
23. No Longer My Son [6:17]
24. "Goodbye, Daddy" [2:41]
25. Preview and End Credits [2:07]
Disc #1, Side B -- Roots: The Next Generations - Episode 2
1. Prologue and Credits [3:29]
2. Homecoming [4:13]
3. Doubts and Debts [5:24]
4. Where the Negro Belongs [3:06]
5. Will's New Job [5:35]
6. Asking Permission [5:08]
7. A Mother's Visit [4:50]
8. Efforts on Lee's Behalf [6:02]
9. Parental Politics [2:34]
10. Contracts to Honor [5:21]
11. Wedding Day Emergency [6:50]
12. Sealed With a Kiss [2:33]
13. Wounds Like the Old Days [2:36]
14. True Democratic Slate [3:53]
15. Colonel's New Platform [2:30]
16. Free Man's Resolve [3:39]
17. Barred From Voting [5:50]
18. Deserving What Happens [2:30]
19. Hunting Lee Down [3:08]
20. Ashes [3:33]
21. Business Before Color [2:08]
22. Different Ways to Fight [3:59]
23. Going Forward [4:34]
24. Preview and End Credits [1:59]
Disc #2, Side A -- Roots: The Next Generations - Episode 3
1. Recap and Credits [3:00]
2. Train Travelers [5:41]
3. A Great Deal Missed [2:47]
4. Bertha Makes a Date [5:13]
5. Picnic Oration [4:22]
6. Particular Dear Friends [3:44]
7. Clothes-Minded [3:43]
8. Changing Feelings [2:27]
9. Uncomfortable Country Boy [5:19]
10. Tuition Money [7:07]
11. Not Letting Go [4:19]
12. Klan Reborn [3:37]
13. George the Porter [3:21]
14. Not Into Temptation [4:48]
15. Ticket to a Reunion [6:51]
16. Mr. Boyce [4:24]
17. Over for Dad [4:56]
18. Nothing to Worry About [2:23]
19. On the March [3:20]
20. Ablaze [2:20]
21. Goldstein's Parting Gift [4:13]
22. Graduation Day [3:17]
23. For the Duration [5:23]
24. Preview and End Credits [2:11]
Disc #2, Side B -- Roots: The Next Generations - Episode 4
1. Recap and Credits [3:41]
2. Military Justice [5:22]
3. Advice to the College Boy [3:20]
4. Luke's Appeal [2:49]
5. Hard From the Word Go [4:38]
6. Wrong White Men [3:29]
7. Letting Go [3:36]
8. Doxie's Party [4:24]
9. Nothing Else Matters [3:46]
10. No Battlefield Support [4:29]
11. Barbed Wire [3:00]
12. Captain's Rebuke [2:06]
13. Ten Eyck's Confession [3:17]
14. Sad News [2:35]
15. Gassed; Hospital Toast [4:21]
16. Café Toast [4:25]
17. Gratitude and Grief [3:35]
18. Dragon's Teeth [5:14]
19. Knoxville Uprising [4:31]
20. One Life for Another [1:53]
21. Return Fighting [5:40]
22. Grand Wedding Guests [3:37]
23. Not His Anymore [5:39]
24. Supposin' to Excess [4:17]
25. Holding Alex Haley [3:05]
26. Preview and End Credits [2:02]
Disc #3, Side A -- Roots: The Next Generations - Episode 5
1. Recap and Credits [3:12]
2. In a Depression [5:03]
3. Redwood Time [2:45]
4. Job Offer [5:43]
5. Theirs for a Song [5:54]
6. Daughter's Grief [2:04]
7. Troublemaker [4:39]
8. Lyle Pettijohn [4:20]
9. No Better Off [4:04]
10. Spreading Ideas [4:56]
11. Subsidy News [2:16]
12. Two Kinds of Laws [3:41]
13. Make Your Mark [2:18]
14. Listening Good [2:27]
15. Acts of Malice [6:48]
16. Bertha's Malady [2:22]
17. Don't Send Me Away [4:10]
18. Proper Choice [3:31]
19. Something Important [3:25]
20. Ab's Fight [6:29]
21. We Won [3:17]
22. Bertha's Farewell [4:03]
23. The Family Goes On [6:09]
24. Preview and End Credits [2:23]
Disc #3, Side B -- Roots: The Next Generations - Episode 6
1. Recap and Credits [3:48]
2. Home From College [4:41]
3. Hard for Him [5:52]
4. Running Dreams [2:32]
5. The Coast Guard [4:50]
6. Scotty Rules [4:42]
7. Different Liberty Ideas [3:32]
8. Meeting Nan [3:11]
9. Graduating With Daisy [3:18]
10. Awful Fast Proposal [5:35]
11. Fool Marriage [3:22]
12. Man of Letters [4:46]
13. A Daughter [3:53]
14. Way With Words [3:46]
15. Too Much to Carry [6:14]
16. No Vacancies [6:40]
17. What Really Matters [5:12]
18. All Old Things [5:41]
19. One More Chance [3:04]
20. From Your Gut [4:21]
21. Preoccupied on Christmas Eve [4:16]
22. Christmas Alone [3:15]
23. Preview and End Credits [2:16]
Disc #4 -- Roots: The Next Generations - Episode 7
1. Recap and Credits [3:34]
2. Funeral Reunion [4:05]
3. Meeting Malcolm X [4:26]
4. Meeting Odile [5:31]
5. New Assignment [2:55]
6. Black Man's Voice [4:35]
7. Whose Approval? [5:22]
8. Rockwell Calling [1:34]
9. Rockwell Interview [8:56]
10. Important Book [5:00]
11. Malcolm's Foreboding [4:47]
12. February 21, 1965 [1:18]
13. Back on the Porch [3:32]
14. On His Family's Trail [3:16]
15. Property Records [5:27]
16. Oral Tradition Deciphered [6:34]
17. Obsessives Part [6:09]
18. To My Dad [4:35]
19. Gambia [2:43]
20. Kinte Clan Griot [5:52]
21. "I Found Him!" [3:40]
22. Two Kintes [3:33]
23. Alex Haley Coda [2:12]
24. End Credits [:52]

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Editorial Reviews

The phenomenal success of the 1977 ABC miniseries Roots all but demanded a sequel to writer Alex Haley's epic story of his African and African-American forebears. Debuting February 18, 1979, Roots: The Next Generations picked up where its predecessor left off, with Haley's slave ancestors winning their freedom in the aftermath of the Civil War. Even so, life for black Americans was wrought with hardship and oppression thanks to the rise of the Ku Klux Klan, the staunch refusal of the white power structure to pass anti-lynching laws, and the formation of the dreaded Jim Crow laws which legalized racial segregation in the South (and much of the North). Covering the period from 1882 to the mid-1970s, the miniseries first focuses on blacksmith Tom Harvey (Georg Stanford Brown), great-grandson of Kunta Kinte (the protagonist of the original Roots), and his family. Meanwhile, reacting to the marriage of his son to a black woman, anal-retentive Southern colonel Warner (Henry Fonda) begins setting the legal wheels in motion to deny blacks like Tom the right to vote and to hold "white" jobs. A few decades later, Tom's son-in-law, Will (Marc Singer), encourages his fellow blacks to stand firm against the KKK's reign of terror. Will's labors on behalf of his race are rewarded when his daughter Bertha (Irene Cara) becomes the first descendant of Kunta Kinte to receive a college education. It is Bertha who weds the equally ambitious Simon Haley (Dorian Harewood), who goes on to serve in WWI and to organize farmers and sharecroppers during the Depression.

Simon's son Alex (played at various ages by Kristoff St. John, Damon Evans, and finally James Earl Jones) is just as determined to succeed in a white man's world as his father, and to that end becomes a professional writer after his own service stint in the Coast Guard during WWII. At the height of his professional success (largely due to his having ghost-written the autobiography of Muslim activist Malcolm X), Alex Haley pays a visit to his boyhood hometown -- where, almost by accident, he receives the first clue to his heritage, a clue that will lead him on an odyssey of self-discovery, arriving full circle at Kunta Kinte's birthplace in Africa. Although the miniseries' "money scene" was Haley's nervous interview with American Nazi Party leader George Lincoln Rockwell (Marlon Brando in a superb cameo turn), the climactic episode, in which Haley tearfully embraces the living African descendants of Kunta Kinte, is one of the most unforgettable moments in the history of network television. Running 12 episodes and 14 hours, Roots: The Next Generations concluded on February 25, 1979, playing to huge ratings all along the way and ultimately garnering several Emmy nominations (and one win). Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

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Roots - The Next Generationsby Anonymous

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December 11, 2003: From an American historical prospective, this movie and its' predecessor were/are essential for our countries' maturation!

This review was written about the VHS 7 Pack / Spanish edition.

Roots - The Next Generationsby Anonymous

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June 01, 2003: When Roots first air, I was in basic training in the military, so I didn't get to see it until years later. All I knew was what I had heard from others. Alot of folks was very angry. I finally saw the movies years later,and I must admit that I too was angry, I got passed that and started to watched it with a different outlook. I see it as history. I see just how far we as humans have come and far we have to go. Of course I have tried to trace my roots. I have Roots on VHS and DVD and I view it every year. I am looking forward to purchasing Roots the next generation as well as Roots the Gift on DVD. I hope my wait isn't too long.

This review was written about the VHS 7 Pack edition.


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