Píše se rok 1750. V africké vesnici Juffure se narodil chlapec Kunta Kinte. V 17 letech je jako otrok deportován do Ameriky, dostává nové jméno, nezná místní řeč, ovšem po čase se spřátelí s ostatními otroky a zakládá rodinu. Jedná se o adaptaci stejnojmenného díla Alexe Haleyho a mapuje celých dvě stě let Kinteho potomků otroků.
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Réžia: John Erman, Charles S. Dubin, Georg Stanford Brown
Scénar: John McGreevey, Thad Mumford, Ernest Kinoy
Produkcia: Stan Margulies
Hrajú: Georg Stanford Brown, Debbi Morgan, Dorian Harewood, Olivia de Havilland, Henry Fonda, Marc Singer, Richard Thomas, Robert Culp, Harry Morgan, Roger E. Mosley, Paul Koslo, Stan Shaw, Irene Cara, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Jiří Voskovec, Pam Grier, John Rubinstein, Dina Merrill, Brock Peters, Beah Richards, Paul Winfield, Gerald McRaney, Ernie Hudson, Charles Robinson, Andy Griffith, Diahann Carroll, John Hancock, Della Reese, Barbara Barrie, Marlon Brando, James Broderick, Michael Constantine, Al Freeman Jr., James Earl Jones, Jane Rose, Johnny Sekka, Diana Douglas, Albert Hall, Howard E. Rollins Jr., Zakes Mokae, Bernie Casey, Percy Rodrigues, Brian Stokes Mitchell, J.A. Preston, Debbie Allen, Kieu Chinh, Norman Fell, Maidie Norman, James Daly, Dennis Fimple, Logan Ramsey, Bill Quinn, Claudia McNeil, Charles Lucia, J. Patrick McNamara, Jon Cedar, Frederick Combs, James Keane, William Mims, Abdoulaye NGom, Timothy Scott, Ted Gehring, Les Lannom, Milt Kogan, Bill Henderson, Bruce French, Charles Lampkin, Don Keefer, Albert Popwell, Hal Williams, Lynne Moody, Kene Holiday, Mel Stewart, Roosevelt Grier, Lynn Hamilton, Gerald S. O'Loughlin, F. William Parker, Joel Fluellen, Earl Billings, Michael Alldredge, John Carter, Patrick Cronin, Fred Stuthman, Al Fann, Jason Wingreen, Richard Sanders, Fay Hauser, Robert Kya-Hill, E. Lamont Johnson, Damon Evans, Greg Morris, Fran Bennett, Ja'net DuBois, Essex Smith, Lee Chamberlin, Royce Wallace, Kathleen Doyle, Theodore Lehmann, Sue Ann Gilfillan, John Lafayette, Michael Morgan, Don Ross, Charles Weldon, Telma Hopkins, Kristoff St. John, Marguerite Ray, Vernon Washington, Rafer Johnson, Avon Long, Lou Frizzell, Marcus Chong, Arnold Roberts, Eddie Smith, Arthur Tovey, Philip Michael Thomas, Kim Fields, Patricia Smith, Luce Rains, Georg Stanford Brown, Irene Cara, Olivia Cole, Chuck Connors, Alex Haley, Lynne Moody, Stan Shaw, Madge Sinclair, Leslie Uggams, Ben Vereen, Fuddle Bagley, Doria Cook-Nelson, Luise Heath, W.K. Stratton, Fred Pinkard, Bever-Leigh Banfield