The epic story of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alex Haley's ancestors was first told in his best-selling book Roots: The Saga of an American Family, published in 1976. The docudrama starts in the middle of the 1800s in Gambia, West Africa, and ends in the United States after the Civil War, more than 100 years later. This miniseries from 1977 won 9 Emmys, a Golden Globe, and a Peabody award, and it is still the most watched miniseries in U.S. history.
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The epic story of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alex Haley's ancestors was first told in his best-selling book Roots: The Saga of an American Family, published in 1976. The docudrama starts in the middle of the 1800s in Gambia, West Africa, and ends in the United States after the Civil War, more than 100 years later. This miniseries from 1977 won 9 Emmys, a Golden Globe, and a Peabody award, and it is still the most watched miniseries in U.S. history.
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