Roots - 2017 Version (DVD)

Four-part 2017 miniseries that charts the life of Kunta Kinte, a Mandinka warrior from The Gambia who is kidnapped and sold into slavery.

Taken from his West African home in the 1770s, Kunta is purchased by John Waller and sent to the United States where he is put to work on a Virginian tobacco plantation. Despite befriending fellow slave Fiddler, Kunta struggles to come to terms with being a slave and dreams of escaping.