Roots: The Next Generations: Miniseries

S1·E1 Mytharc

Part 1

Feb 18, 1979 · 60 min

It has now been 12 years since Chicken George and his family left their plantation in Virginia and arrived in Henning, Tennessee. The year is 1882 and the era of Reconstruction of

S1·E2 Mytharc

Part 2

Feb 19, 1979 · 60 min

Thirteen years have passed in the town of Henning, Tennessee and now in 1896, the town has taken advantage of a burgeoning new industrial age thanks to the expansion of the railroa

S1·E3 Mytharc

Part 3

Feb 20, 1979 · 60 min

The year is 1914 and Will and Cynthia Palmer's daughter Bertha heads off to college, eventually meeting and falling in love with a poor but hard-working fellow student named Simon

S1·E4 Core

Part 4

Feb 21, 1979 · 60 min

In a flashback of a military gallows in 1917 Texas, a group of black soldiers from the 24th Infantry, convicted for various crimes including mutiny, are hung. Fast forward to 1918

S1·E5 Core

Part 5

Feb 22, 1979 · 60 min

Eleven years after the Haley's return home with baby Alex, the story opens in 1932 in Henning, Tennessee during the Great Depression, with Simon still unable to find a job as a pro

S1·E6 Mytharc

Part 6

Feb 23, 1979 · 60 min

Seven years have passed since Alex's mother's death and the Haley family has moved to Elizabeth City, North Carolina where Simon is teaching agriculture at the local state teacher'

S1·E7 Mytharc

Part 7

Feb 25, 1979 · 60 min

In the exciting conclusion, it is now 1960 in Henning, Tennessee, 10 years after Alex's wife Nan left him, and Alex attends the funeral for his great Aunt Elizabeth. He has finally