Roots 1977 Opening and Closing Themes HD

[@wifeoftim]

The theme music is hauntingly beautiful. I remember seeing this as a young girl and I remember getting goosebumps hearing this piece of music.

[@cpatch-nh5cs]

Me and you both, Regine.

[@kirkstanfield3773]

Oh yes😪

[@reducecotwo]

Anyone remember chicken George, lol

[@MrBobbyj32]

It still moves me today.

[@angelasmith3967]

@@MrBobbyj32 it does. Now, 55, l remember this mini series to a T! This music piece tears me up every time. Roots scheduled to come on tonight, July 11, 2022, on The Grio, in Atlanta. I'm ready! On July 4th, 2022 the Grio aired it the entire day! No cooking, or festivities for me! I watched Roots marathon with popcorn. Then had to watch Roots the next generation on KZbin!

[@mrkeno1000]

that was probably the most incredible week of television in history

[@BrooklynAvenue]

I watched it. Found out the next day that the rest of the world watched it with me. It happened just like that. Nothing planned, everyone just seemed to find it on their own.

[@monomixer]

it wasn't just a week. it was a legend. I remember it going for months.. every week an episode..

[@mauramicheletti2118]

In Italy too I remember in 1978

[@oliverwabwire2836]

@carly keeney Its coz the rest of the planet was let into the dark well-scripted premeditated secret of the horrid details of slavery of the African in the Americas...a macabre story whose supposed resolution of 40 acres and a mule was nothing but a dastardly lope sided parley......all brought to life in vivid technicolour for the first time! Roots...pricked even the most hardened of hearts, even those who preferred to remain stoical afterwards!

[@hiramhackenbacker9096]

It is true. Everyone in Australia watched it. Still fondly remembered.

[@tonyhinkin6368]

One of the greatest tv shows of all time and what a superb cast.

[@KDawg92801]

Whoever did that brilliant artwork in the opening. Gets my utmost respect. No 🧢

[@GrasshopperRDG]

OMG YES!! It is a portrait image that STAYS with one. I, like yourself, remain appreciative and mesmerized when awe gazing upon it...because it is so lifelike and powerful in capturing* the impact we were privy to witness and understand. Now years later from childhood; I have the ability to share with you the imprint it has remained too, and that* is so equally just wonderful! 💚*🙏

[@fay-amieaspen6046]

I've always wanted a poster of it on my wall. It's awesome.

[@dena81]

Still sends tingles after all this time

[@CALQL8R]

Any idea where you can see the whole image? I've tried to google image search it, with no luck.

[@LW7333LW]

@@CALQL8R me as well. No luck.

[@kcosmic7714]

I still find this miniseries so compelling. Though ive seen it a million times. Its really a lesson in humanity and the limitations of the human race. Superb acting. Just bravo!

[@kabilan1242]

Where can I watch it I ve been searching for it forever

[@angelasmith3967]

@@kabilan1242 it just started 10pm on the Grio in Atlanta. July 11, 2022. I'm watching it now! You can probably get the app so you can watch it. It's going to air every night this week. 4th of July, 2022 it came on as a marathon. No cooking or festivities for me! Just popcorn!

[@fejiroeforhare1482]

​@@angelasmith3967 Which app please

[@ImSkittzle]

Brought me to tears, the sound of the viola, the horns, the woodwinds, the flute. This sound, there is no other that compares. I also cried hearing it when I was a little boy.

[@tesfayedesalegn5340]

I looked for this. One of the best memorable tv films when i was a child. I am from Ethiopia.

[@NattyWerewolf]

I still come back here

[@johnnybrownnewton6882]

I recall when my daddy bought this movie we never stopped viewing it over and over again… a lot to learn and understand and this theme song woo amazing

[@mikec1236]

I honestly cry every time I hear this

[@marcustrice3246]

I understand how u feel

[@renewilly3659]

Me too 😢

[@marcustrice3246]

@@renewilly3659 it's still pains and pisses me off that they treated us like that and still today

[@healthylife2988]

@@marcustrice3246 I understand. They have not changed that much. We are the ones who have to change and love ourselves and think outside of the box. Firstly educate yourself and homeschool your chdren. Remember they are only as strong as we let them be. When I began to genuinely love myself, they became less important to me.

[@paulkaz1752]

Gosh, this theme song took me back to my childhood! I remember watching this as a kid, it had a big impact on me.

[@cheryldsalter4091]

I was 11 years old when this premiered. It was the talk of the decade! I love the score! Well done Quincy Jones!

[@garrydownes2868]

What a show Sitting down on a Saturday night with mam and 👨‍👩‍👧 dad and me brothers

[@nrodry76]

When this tv series aired in 1977 I was 8yrs old and I was totally captivated with it!! Wouldn’t miss a single episode. Even read the book!

[@realtan9026]

I WAS ALSO 8 AND ALSO WAITED IN FRONT OF THE TV WAITING FOR IT TO START one of the best shows ever made maybe "the" best everyone should watch this

[@Timeistheissue]

Was Ten and looked forward to it.

[@4M3455]

Also eight years old !! And also waiting for each episode !

[@whs068]

Same here. I was 9 and was completely caught up in the story and never missed a night when it came on.

[@erickanew]

I was 5, I didn't watch it then but remember my whole family talking about it, and my older sister had the book

[@dena81]

So many memories. My dad is going through dementia but when I was young he and I loved Roots. We watched the original, recorded and bought the series and next generation, and also watched Queen. Such an amazing and powerful show that affected me as a child and even now as a 39 year old.

[@busterzigler7530]

My Mum had a copy of the book, My Dad had the betamax video cassete. Both no longer in this world.

[@brodycole4372]

Roots is one of the most popular television shows of all time

[@winstonemerson2439]

Better made than anything today.Amazing actors telling a horrible but needing to be shown truth.

[@Kim_gs1206]

This made me emotional as 9 year old and at 40 it still does.

[@janesgems7]

Ditto. I didn't realise at the time that you guys Kunte Kinte wAs played by Star Trek's Geordie LaForge. What an amazing actor!

[@BecauseKebbynSaidSo]

This movie overall just made me so uncomfortable it was very good I watched it a lot with Mama while she cooked bean soup and did my hair.

[@busterzigler7530]

44

[@nkirumelifonwu12]

The score this makes me teary

[@areskibernou8081]

the most beautiful series of television

[@racourdav]

I vividly remember rushing to the TV to catch the opening music. I love this theme and the artwork

[@debonyangelgirl6497]

The event that was " Roots" was made even more powerful and moving by it's musical score. The theme is iconic and legendary, it's moving and it shows strength.🎶🎵🌍🕊️👼❤️🔆🌻🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌼🌺🏵️💟🎶

[@TheHulk2008]

The opening music is pretty awesome

[@wolfmares9003]

Yeah it really made you feel like you were about to go on adventure before it would even start.

[@bigchet]

Yup 1:41 hits different

[@LW7333LW]

@Bola Oladapo for real?!

[@kenanyahyahsharala6639]

Can't really describe the feeling I get when I hear this. Sad yet hopeful. Makes me wanna get home.

[@3rdperson2]

Bruh... you said it. Just melting...

[@MrOu83]

Kenayah When you say home, do you mean Africa? I saved this music on my phone and listened to it on my initial trip home to Africa-Accra, Ghana, in January 2019, and again in January 2020, for 10 months (3 scheduled months turned into 10 months due to pandemic, borders closed, etc.). I understand what you mean. I can’t wait to return in a few months.

[@mahbubahaque3506]

i was 5/6 years old then. only could remember the last lines . very happy to get this theme song.

[@mrt8944]

Loved that the intro starts with Trees, Birds, Baboons, hippos. The beauty of Nature, before the the horror that we are, The humans.

[@LeeLee19901]

What an all star cast!👍👍

[@dexter2345]

That picture of Ben Vereen (Chicken George) with the rooster with Chuck Connors in the background, gets to me everytime

[@blackpowerdiva4958]

That cast list always gets me choked up. 🕯 🕯 🕯 As does the ending collage sequence at the end of “the next generation.” I was 3 in 1977. And it was just as big when they re-aired it when I was 5 or 6 on network television 📺. It might as well had been brand new! Everyone was glued to TV.

[@queencanislupusofthewolfpa2247]

I have the movie. I watched the whole series back in the day. Now it is one of the hardest things for me to watch. This was the truth but a very hard and sad truth indeed!!! Because we will always wonder why people can be so evil.

[@JaejoongPrincess]

Well, half the story is fictional and Alex Haley stole the story from somebody's else novel called "The African" l think. Alex had to pay a lot of money the creators where he stole some of the story and main characters of Roots and Queen.

[@anwereditor]

Please give it to me , I searched in the internet I didn't found it

[@דןאסויד]

You are right. That series is unforgettable. And a lot of people are evil.

[@gerryfinn5210]

@@דןאסויד and they all biblethumpers and read the scriptures

[@valuecalc]

​@@JaejoongPrincess, where did you get that idea? "Stole" the story? Those other writers weren't related to Chicken George. There were passages in question, but it's time to remove them and to publish the book again with corrections.

[@laminage]

So much History in the Cast. Lloyd Bridges (Evan Brent) admitted he was scared he'd be marked for cupability (blame). Lynda Day George (Anne Reynolds Sr.)admitted that she had no close black friends but she had nothing but admiration for their bravery. Robert Reed found the Selling of Kizzy hard because he had given up his Parental Rights to his daughter because he was ashamed of being Gay and growing up in a Small Farming Town in Iowa he had to hide the fact he was Jewish. His real name is John Robert Reidz. Chuck Connors (Tom Moore) apologized to Leslie Uggams (Kizzy) for how bad he was to her on the show, and to this Day Sandy Duncan admitted she may have been the most hated Actress because she was so convincing as Missy Ann. She was spat on, even her Grandmother thought she "was" her and she says to this day she never saw the Full Miniseries, it's still too painful. She also saw what it was like to be a Visible Minority since a large majority of the Cast was Black. Ben Vereen admitted that when they were filming in 1976, it was America's 200th Birthday and he said "It's not fair, Whites came here as future Citizens, we came here as Cargo." Needless to say it's a Masterpiece. Now Celebrities do their Family Trees and discover that many of them "Owned" Slaves at least their Ancestors like Ben Affleck. Cheryl Ann Tweedy of The UK Group Girls Aloud did her Roots and discovered her Ancestors lived in deplorable housing and she lived in a Council House aka Low Income Housing Project. I still remember when the cast Members made a Cameo appearance at The Emmys and Olivia Newton John acknowledged Roots as a Landmark TV Special.

[@robertmasina4610]

What is there to hate about Sandy Duncan? She was only doing her job as an actress.

[@neneshubby]

You also had four actors who played against type. Ralph Waite as the slave trader, Robert Reed as Master Reynolds, Lorne Greene as John Reynolds and Chuck Conners as Master Moore were all popular television father figures in the 60’s and 70’s and all played despicable racists which helped make this so effective.

[@waivedwench]

@@neneshubby The casting people said later that they deliberately gave those roles to the wholesome "daddy" figures.

[@neneshubby]

@@waivedwench True

[@janesgems7]

We are not responsible for the sins of our ancestors

[@dannyharkin2011]

I was only seven when this great programme was first shown. I remember it like yesterday.

[@johnfirth5298]

This should still be shown in schools now.

[@joewhitehead3]

It was shown to me when I was in school. That’s how I was introduced to it

[@majorg6065]

What is the benefit of showing this in schools? All you well do is make white kids feel guilty for something they didn’t do (or cause some to become fascinated with the idea of slavery) and cause black to get mad about something they didn’t experience. It needs to be left for Adults to study if they so desire.

[@majorg6065]

Totally disagree, I think my original comment got deleted

[@desireegelmete369]

@@majorg6065🙄

[@majorg6065]

@@desireegelmete369 why should kids be taught about brutal slavery from 150-200 years ago

[@silvereagle2061]

Wow, makes me want to watch the series all over again.

[@GrasshopperRDG]

Spine Tingling SHIVERS This {🎶Instrumental} Remains!Thank you Gerald Fried and Quincy Jones...4Ever!! 💚*🙏🏼

[@Danwell86]

My left ear really enjoyed the intro.

[@baerhomburg6447]

What a fantastic theme song. Just brilliant-absolutely brilliant!!

[@stephenjoiner3738]

For years and years I have been looking for that closing montage of cast portraits. Thank you. Thank you.

[@Rescue162]

I was 10 when Roots premiered and I came mostly to see O.J. Simpson (that was long before all of his problems). Of course I loved the series and watched the whole thing that week.

[@desireegelmete369]

I can’t tell you how this movie impacted me in the 1970s as a Cape Verdean …this will always follow me in my life

[@markwalford-groom]

i wathed this as a kid did not really u drstand a lot of it but rewatching mid 80s i loved it ,watch it at least once a year ,R I P to over 20 great actors who were named at the end but have since died

[@trixie4124]

What a Beautiful piece.....

[@darlenerahaman4520]

Rest in peace Cicely Tyson

[@Sparkledash1]

This is one of the most important pieces of american television and it needs to be defended at all costs. We are currently living in a time where everything supposedly bad about the past is being censored. But these people don't know that they will just teach future generations the mistakes of the past, because these generations will never know the truth. I know that the N-Word is a filthy word. It might be the most filthy word in the english language. But just ignoring and censoring the fact that people used it in the past won't bring us forward. We need to learn from these things to better ourselves and only then will we be able to understand each other, be it black, white, latino or whatever ethnicity you are part of.

[@alanlinnell6817]

I remember seeing this when I was five. It was pretty interesting.

[@cpman1987]

Quincy Jones movie scores are LIT! He also composed scores for: " In the heat of the night.

[@atclfi3]

RIP John Amos and Louis Gossett Jr!!

[@miss.phyllisreneefoster9547]

ALL OF THE ROOTS MUSIC IS VERY BEAUTIFUL I LOVE IT , ITS SO AFRO SENTRIC

[@mrkeno1000]

Just watched it for the first time since original airing on Amazon stream(not free but worth it) nothing changed it is just as good and powerful. I have no desire to see the rebooted version because the original is just perfect

[@weeannie495]

The greatest acting ever to be aired. Thank you this must have been heartbreaking to act out. I know wee were all heartbroken watching it. Although it’s a Must watch Least Wee Forget and find forgiveness in the blood if Jesus togetherness strengthens divided breeds hatred

[@NattyWerewolf]

I get tears watching this every time p

[@jonimichalski9193]

I always loved the Art work beautiful it might be a collector's item since Alex Haley and many of the stars are now deceased

[@bstnd3]

This entire series and the Next Generations which came out two years later was brilliantly done from beginning to end. I've always found that theme song very intriguing. Talk about a star-studded cast....Wow!!

[@davidwilliamson8861]

should be mandatory watching , no PC , what a piece of work by Alex Haley,. thanks

[@brodycole8866]

Roots is the most watched television show of all time

[@jackperry3833]

no it isn't

[@lakeisharobinson2132]

@@jackperry3833 then what is?

[@jackperry3833]

@@lakeisharobinson2132 M*A*S*H is the most watched tv show of all time last episode alone had 106 million people watching live so popular they even made a movie whilst the show was still going ( I don’t like M*A*S*H by the way)

[@hyperx72]

I'm jealous of all the cultures. Everyone else has this interesting history and whatnot, and for me it's like all roots.

[@TerenaSHouse]

The long movie "Roots" bring me back to Chicago, IL eating cornbread & greens with our grandparents & family. Lol!!!😆 Yeah, Roots is deep to teach history. 😍👍

[@user-uj9zj4uv5r]

I saw roots on the family channel when I was little

[@rayansaldivar2796]

I miss this movie

[@cpatch-nh5cs]

Now THIS is an all-star cast! Wow!

[@MadAngel209]

One person is missing. Beverly Todd played the adult Fanta A.K.A. Maggie. who was Kunta Kinte's love interest.

[@jimowens2008]

awesome mini series

[@josephvanderleest5681]

Wij in Nederland wisten niet wat er gebeurt was in die tijd. Tot wij roots zagen. Tot op de dag van vandaag is deze serie een inspiratiebron voor vele. Van jong tot oud

[@pinkfloydfan92]

The ending theme score is powerful

[@jonimichalski9193]

Beautiful music and artwork

[@driayoung710]

Rest in Paradise Ms. Irene Care from Roots next-generation. She died earlier this year. She played Alex Haley's mom to a young Christoff St. (Young and the Restless).John who died a few years back.

[@alexandredecastrofaleiro5677]

Great mini serie.Fabulous cast.

[@Therealmoseslupai]

Kinda forgot how prolific this was. Still is. 🤲🏿🙏🏿

[@jackcornwall2566]

This comforts me idk why

[@จันทร์พรส์สุธาสินี]

2021 i don't think i can see and hear the them from this movie again since 1977thanks so much

[@ayudadeudores3653]

Excelente producción. A master piece. Unforgettable. Two thumbs Up.

[@zw5795]

Love this movie ❤

[@stephenspilker9334]

they sure don't make tv shows like this anymore. it was my favorite mini series i have ever viewed.

[@webosm6494]

From slave 'Kunta Kinte" to "Captain Geordi La Forge. The American Dream. :)

[@waivedwench]

Madge Sinclair and Ben Vereen played his wife and grandson respectively. In Star Trek, they played his parents!

[@billkincaid4395]

First he had to Learn the Love of Reading BEFORE going to Starfleet !!! And that was on.. READING RAINBOW..

[@laminage]

Another fun fact was that Madge Sinclair, James Earl Jones & John Amos worked with Eddie Murphy in Coming To America and Made Sinclair guest starred in Roseanne. Scatman Crothers was the Voice of Cartoon Character Hong Kong Phooey, and Ben Vereen also would play Will Smith's Father on Fresh Prince. Leslie Uggams would do All My Children, and Cicely Tyson was the First African American Actress on a Soap as Nurse Martha Frazier on Guiding Light. In their 60 Anniversary Coffee Table Book they did a chapter of Guiding Light Alumnae and acknowledged her. The UK Soap Opera Coronation Street did a line in which a Character named "Eva" said "I Got Moore Roots Than Kunta Kinte Whoever He Is". This created an uproar since it was the 40th Anniversary of it's telecast and they had to apologize. Catherine Tydsley who played Eva never watched Roots and had no idea and was very embarrassed.

[@renj6531]

I forgot oj was in this, and legend goes he was originally cast to play the t800 in the terminator.

[@waivedwench]

I remember that!

[@WWAHP]

RIP Gerald Fried, the composer of the theme song

[@callumsmaile8815]

All the time I’ve watched this and never noticed Ian McShane is it it haha

[@Sueb18631]

He had a VERY small role here. However, a few years later, he had a major role in NBC's "Jesus of Nazareth" playing Judas Iscariot.

[@DCJNewsMedia]

I watched it each night when I was originally broadcast.....then watched it several times on VHS, and then bought it in the first DVD package.... and bought the 25 annerverssry edition..... I wanted history preservation...not it to be rewritten... God bless you and your family CHIEF

[@SL-cl9gt]

This should be the only film you need to see in a US history class

[@nikkirose5569]

I can’t stand this crying the whole way through

[@霧漣湖]

吊るされて鞭打たれても、自分の名前は、クンタ、キンテ、と言う。人間の尊厳に迫る素晴らしいドラマだった！

[@TeeVeesGreatest]

sorry about the right channel at the start guys, it comes back on the next clip.

[@pawanghimire1]

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[@latishiabedwards1423]

Hard to watch once you realize everything is true. Harder then any horror movie.

[@cheryldsalter4091]

Roots: The Next Generations is good too!

[@bnkundwa]

A film about the concept of family and migration.

[@LW7333LW]

Respect!! Great theme and series. I didn't know however that Harold Courlander sued Haley for plagiarism for his book.."The African." Heard he received $650,000 in '78.

[@valuecalc]

There's something fishy about it. Haley wrote things all his life. Copying gets discovered.

[@erickanew]

What made this the best, it had all the best actors wonder how Alex Haley accomplished

[@ajones2308]

This song will be playing when the Great TRIBULATION starts.

[@日本が好きなある老人]

良いテーマ音楽で涙出ます。

[@Canuckchick32]

Levar Burton! What a hunk! 😍

[@xuns5268]

I Luv the music thou Thx!

[@moviebuff1975]

The mural opening originally ended with AN ABC NOVEL FOR TELEVISION and the cover of the book rising up.

[@pbamse]

JOHN AMOS (1939 - 2024)

[@envitech02]

I saw this on TV when I was just a few years old. I still remember the theme music. 4:04 FWIW Ralph Waite looks like Charles Bronson.

[@split5491]

Lol idk why I thought of the opening theme for Roots but I had to listen to it

[@nkirumelifonwu12]

It just happened to me....the sudden urge to listen to it, I mean

[@langelodidio-goaldo1105]

Ho guardato l' ultimo episodio della unica stagione di questa serie, televisiva, gradevole.

[@JamesBond-um9oq]

I-s b-s a free man!!

[@darramlogan7126]

I was bummed out that the remake didn't have the original theme song.

[@majorg6065]

The remake lacked in a lot of areas the original shined in. I can’t think of anything about the remake that was better. The original was perfect.

[@dianemoe7222]

There should have never been a remake. The original was outstanding.

[@JohnSmith-ym7hz]

Learned that several people didn't want to do Roots because it was very emotional.Black actor's as well as White.

[@Mystikan]

I remember this series mainly for one of the most iconic scenes of defiance of violent authority I've ever seen, one which has inspired me to this day. "Your name is Toby. What is your name?" "Kunta Kinte." "Your name is Toby. What is your name?" "Kunta Kinte." "YOUR NAME IS TOBY. WHAT IS YOUR NAME?" "Kunta Kinte." Never let the man beat you down, ever.

[@westyraviz]

Real cutting performance by O.J. Simpson.