Roots

Roots is a TV show on British national television from BBC4 with an average rating of 3.6 stars by TelevisionCatchUp.co.uk's visitors. We have 4 episodes of Roots in our archive. The first episode of Roots was broadcast in December, 2018. Did you miss an episode of Roots but don't you wan't that to happen in the future? Please set an alarm and add Roots to your favourites, so we can remind you by email when there's a new episode available to watch. For free!

Rating:3.6 of 5Total number of episodes:4Last broadcast:01/12/2018 at 00:40

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2018

1:39:00

February 15, 2017

01/12/2018 4.0 3 x

The American Revolutionary War, 1782. Ten years after being bought as a slave, Kunta escapes and is enlisted to fight for the English army. But his hopes of freedom are soon brutally crushed. Kunta marries beautiful slave Belle and the two have a daughter, Kizzy, who grows up to be a bright, defiant young woman, inheriting...

Episodes 2017

1:25:00

March 1, 2017

Expired01/03/2017 4.0 37 x

After 20 years in England, Chicken George makes his way back to America and reaches Tom Lea's farm, where he hopes to be reunited with his family. But tracking down his long-lost relations and making up for lost time won't be easy. Meanwhile, the American Civil War breaks out and lines are drawn.

1:39:00

February 22, 2017

Expired22/02/2017 3.0 41 x

Young George - son of Kizzy and slave owner Tom Lea - grows up to become involved in cockfighting. His flamboyancy and impressive bird-training skills earn him the nickname of Chicken George and he wins many fights for Tom Lea, as he starts to dream of becoming a free man one day.

1:39:00

February 8, 2017

Expired08/02/2017 3.0 37 x

Juffere, West Africa, 1767 - young, proud Kunta Kinte is being initiated as a Mandinka warrior and ready to start thinking about his future. But a feud with a rival family results in him being kidnapped and sold to English slave traders, who are in the business of transporting shiploads of enslaved Africans to America to b...

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