lunacasada First, i found this episod animated and cowed like some scenes such as Kunta Kinte (the leader carachter ) tryed to save his girlfriend's Jinna or Fiddler wanted protect Kunta Kinta. It's enough diferent other movie because the spectator can really enter in the skin of carachter.Also the acting of actors are unbelievable, thank you Malachi Kurby.I watched with my class the first episod of the serie ,almost 2 hours.After, Personally i don't see 2 times the movie.The sound track moving,exciting like the big movie in cinema. There haven't much special effect,damage.For my part the moment the most gloomy is when Kunta Kinta was whipped by the servant of master because he refused to tell his new name in plantation ( Toby).If you have the heart sensitive don't watch this movie.I will prefere watch in full but. I hope that a lot of movie maker will make movie in this genre. You love Roots then buy it. PEACE! XXXT

enzobp Hi! My name is Enzo. I'm 15 and I live in France, in Angers. I'm in first year of highschool of Chevrollier. I really like watch movies and series. Not long ago, I watched "Roots", It's a movie which talk about the slavery. The movie was realised in 2016 by Will Packer & Marc Toberoff. The first part of Roots takes place in Africa near the Bolongo River and the second part is in Virginia, in the US. Malachi Kirloy play the role of Kunta Kinte and He's the son of Omoro Kinte, the leader of Mandinka warriors. I really like this movie because it's an admirable representation. The acting is fabulous, the soundtrack also. The synopsis is superb. The point negatif is the movie is too short.To finish, i really like this film for the history.

gmoney65 I see some have slammed this remake of Roots, let's understand one thing I was a teen at the time of the original Roots if they had made this truthful version back in the day, people would have rioted in the streets. I respect the accuracy of this version, besides Haley was sued for plagiarism to the original story.

catesa When I heard in 2013 that The History Channel (sorry, I forgot, it's just called "History" now) was going to remake "Roots", I was mostly just confused. Considering it wasn't even 40 years since the original, I thought "Is this really necessary?" The '77 miniseries is one of the most important cultural events of the 20th century. It seemed kind of blasphemous to do a remake, especially so soon. Why don't we re-cast and re-shoot "Star Wars" while we're at it? Yeah, it IS that stupid an idea. However, I also understand that a lot of Americans' entire understanding of slavery is based on having watched the miniseries, and some of the history in the original is certainly flawed. I was skeptical that a new one would be anywhere near as good, but I was drawn in with promises that it would be "truer to the book," and include "new information discovered since the original," etc. And frankly, in a day in age where BLM protesters are referred to as "thugs" by subconscious racists, and Barack Obama is somehow viewed by a lot of white people as more "divisive" than his successor (go figure), I think as many (particularly white) people as possible need to be reminded where all these racial problems came from. So sure! Let's give it a whirl! To me this new version only outshines the original in a couple instances: The updates to Juffure and the portrayal of Mandinkan culture/clothes/housing is really cool to see. The inclusion of the internal West African slave trade is also really important. We know now that having Kunta and co. running around in loincloths in the woods and white men strolling through the jungle kidnapping people at random is just plain inaccurate. On the other hand, the original tale Alex Haley heard was that Kunta was out chopping wood to make a drum when he was taken - kinda weird that this was entirely omitted, but I suppose I can let that go if it means seeing a more accurate Juffure. The other thing I appreciated was the removal of all those goofy sympathetic white characters. Anyone who knows the story behind the original miniseries knows those characters were created because ABC thought white people wouldn't tune in if there weren't some nice white guys sprinkled in to make them feel better. As someone whose ancestors owned slaves, I don't think that's what white audiences (especially in the south) need to see. We already have too many white people going on about how slavery's evils were exaggerated, or "most people didn't own slaves," or "most slaves weren't treated that badly," etc. I think it's more important to drive home the overwhelming racism, violence, and brutality that permeated every part of southern society (again, so as to better understand how deep-seated racism against African Americans is in our culture). Aside from these two updates, the new version (particularly after Kunta arrives in Virginia) doesn't really improve on the original, nor is it accurate to the times. No doubt there were dignified, proud, sly slaves who could find ways around or out of the system (as Kunta's descendants do in the original), but let's be honest: to have Kunta killing his overseer and not immediately having his head cut off is ridiculous. Any kind of violent resistance to a white person would have been met with totally gratuitous cruelty on the part of the slave-owners. For most slaves there was little to no relief from the constant terror, violence, and depression that loomed day in and day out over the plantation. That's really what makes the history of slavery so heart breaking. There was very little mercy on the part of slave owners as they tormented their "property" throughout their lives. I can understand that it might provide some catharsis for the audience to have Kizzy hold a knife to Tom Lea's throat, or to have Chicken George just shoot Murray's son and walk away like nothing happened, but it's also a false narrative that allows white people today to feel better about their ancestors' cruelty (as if revenge was an option for slaves). It also downplays the real perseverance and strength black people of the time had to have considering there really were no opportunities for them to settle the score unless they were prepared for certain death (granted, many were, and didn't survive their attempts at revolt, but that's my point - they didn't just walk off into the sunset).To make a long story short, the new series is definitely more accurate when it comes to the Africa scenes. Once Kunta's in America, the original miniseries was probably far more accurate - not in terms of violence (there was a lot that couldn't get past the censors in 1977), but in terms of the slaves' attitudes and actions. We see fiddler with his backhanded compliments, Kizzy spitting into Missy Ann's water, Tom and the family setting a trap for Evan Brent; they get away with as much as they can without the master noticing, and that was fairly typical. Also, as to be expected with something put out by The History Channel (Sorry - History), there's a bunch of time spent on unnecessarily working in historical events that could've been spent on the characters and the inner-workings of slavery. Having Kunta join the Ethiopian Regiment, or Chicken George at Ft. Pillow? Totally lame, and not important to the story at all. I could go on, but I won't. Check it out if you're a black history buff, but it doesn't hold a candle to the original for me.