ROOTS – SERIES (NR)--Based on Alex Haley’s best selling novel. It recounts one family’s struggle to resist American slavery, told through four generations. Starting from the capture of Kunta Kinte (Malachi Kirby) in Africa to his transport to Colonial America in brutal conditions through successive generations fighting to win their freedom in the Civil War. Includes Forest Whitaker, Laurence Fishburne, Jonathan Rhys Meyers and James Purefoy, to name a few.