On Christmas Eve 1770, a young African warrior, who three years prior had been captured and sold into slavery in America, leads a desperate group of runaway slaves as they attempt to reach freedom in the North.
Kunta Kinte
LeVar Burton
Fiddler
Louis Gossett Jr.
Cletus Moyer
Avery Brooks
Hattie Carraway
Kate Mulgrew
Edmund Parker, Jr.
Shaun Cassidy
Edmund Parker, Sr.
John McMartin
William Reynolds
Jerry Hardin
Sarah Parker
Annabella Price
Amelia Parker
Michael Learned
May
Fran Bennett
Marcellus
Tim Russ
Scarvie
Jimmie F. Skaggs
Arabella
Brandy Brown
Nick
Ernest Harden Jr.
Lilly
Maria Bryant
Jubal
James McIntire
Boatman
Lawrence Mandley
Driver #1
John Sherrod
Gaunt Man
Karl Anthony Smith
Driver #2
J. Christopher Sullivan
Elly
Donna Howell
Christopher
Billy Ray Reynolds
Gentleman #1
Michael Edwards
Gentleman #2
Myke R. Mueller
Bishop Wadley
John Murray
Self - presenter
Alex Haley
Jolly
Bernard Peyton
Aurelia (archive footage) (uncredited)
Tina Andrews
Horseman (uncredited)
Robert Goldman
Slave Girl (uncredited)
Debra Perry