The epic story of famed Pulitzer Prize winner Alex Haley's forebears, as shown in the popular twelve-hour miniseries Roots, was first chronicled in his 1976 bestseller Roots: The Saga of an American Family. The docu-drama spans a century, beginning in the mid-1700s in Gambia, West Africa and ending in the post-Civil War United States. This 1977 miniseries went on to win 9 Emmys, a Golden Globe, and a Peabody award, and it is remains the most watched miniseries in US history.
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The epic story of famed Pulitzer Prize winner Alex Haley's forebears, as shown in the popular twelve-hour miniseries Roots, was first chronicled in his 1976 bestseller Roots: The Saga of an American Family. The docu-drama spans a century, beginning in the mid-1700s in Gambia, West Africa and ending in the post-Civil War United States. This 1977 miniseries went on to win 9 Emmys, a Golden Globe, and a Peabody award, and it is remains the most watched miniseries in US history.
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