Roots 2017 DVD

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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Four-part US drama miniseries that charts the life of Kunta Kinte (Malachi Kirby) a Mandinka warrior from The Gambia who is kidnapped & sold into slavery Taken from his West African home in the 1770s Kunta is purchased by John Waller (James Purefoy) & sent to the United States where he is put to work on a Virginian tobacco plantation Despite befriending fellow slave Fiddler (Forest Whitaker) Kunta struggles to come to terms with being a slave & dreams of escaping However after an attempted escape goes wrong Kunta is finally forced to accept that he won&t be able to return home to Africa Years later after fighting in the American Revolutionary War Kunta marries Belle (Emayatzy Corinealdi) & the pair have a daughter named Kizzy (Saniyya Sidney Emyri Crutchfield) Despite growing up to be a strongminded young woman Kizzy is soon forced to face a number of hardships as she is sold on to cruel slaveholder Tom Lea (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) in North Carolina