This title is licensed for public performance by Swank Motion Pictures, Inc. The story of Kunta Kinte who was kidnapped from Africa and enslaved in America in 1767. Heirs kept his heroic defiance alive, whispering his name from one generation to the next. Alex Haley tells the lineage of one family in the Pulitzer Prize winning Roots. A David L. Wolper production of the award winning television mini-series. The DVD includes behind-the-scenes documentary: "Remembering Roots"; scene access; languages: English and Spanish; Subtitles: English, French, and Spanish.