A group of slaves plan a daring 600-mile escape from a Georgia plantation. Along the way, they are aided by a secret abolitionist couple running a station on the Underground Railroad as they attempt to evade the people charged with bringing them back, dead or alive.
An adaptation of Alex Haley's "Roots", chronicling the history of an African slave, Kunta Kinte sold to America and his descendants.
This top-seller recounts the saga of Italians who immigrated to Brazil during the XIX century, seeking their fortunes in America. The forbidden love between Giulliana and Matteo flowers in the midst of the sweeping changes ushered in by the arrival of these Europeans in Brazilian towns. This great epic has thrilled viewers in more than eighty countries.
Naïve and provocative Gabriela is a raggedy migrant worker who arrives in town to mesmerize all with her playful and simple, yet raw sensuality. Set in 1925, the story unravels in Ilhéus, a quiet northeastern coastal city thriving with cocoa crops and aspirations for progress, even though the traditional ways still rule.
Queen is the story about Easter, the illegitimate daughter of James Jackson, III and her lifelong affair with plantation owner Tim Daly, which would result in the birth of Queen. Queen's story revolves around her early years as a slave who yearns to know who her father is, and her condition as a fair skin mixed race woman who spends her life trying to figure out where exactly she fits in.
Hans namn var Kunta Kinte. Kidnappad från Afrika och förd till Amerika som slav 1767, han vägrade att använda det namn som han blev tilldelad som slav - Toby. Hans släkt förde det förflutna vidare, viskade namnet Kunta Kinte från generation till generation, ända tills historien hamnade hos en ung pojke i Tennessee. Hans namn var Alex Haley. Denna pojke spred Kunta Kintes historia över hela världen. Med utgångspunkt i en familjs berättelse, spred Haley och hans Pulizer Prize-vinnande Rötter sin historia över Amerika och hela världen.
När Dana, en ung svart kvinna och blivande författare, börjar finna sig tillrätta i sitt nya hem, finner hon att hon dras fram och tillbaka i tiden. Hon hamnar på ett 1800-talsplantage och konfronterar hemligheter som hon aldrig visste rann i hennes blod.
Elspeth and her unconventional parents decide to settle down in Kenya and begin a coffee plantation. This is a time of discovery for Elspeth, as she encounters the incredible beauty and cruelty of nature, and new friendships with both Africans and British expatriates. A side plot involves the beautiful and bored British Lettice Palmer who enters into an affair with a handsome safari guide. Eventually, however, the excitement of Elspeth's life is disrupted by the onset of WW I, and the changes it brings.
A young Southern belle becomes the mistress of a magnificent plantation.
Set during the final days of slavery in 19th century Jamaica, we follow the trials, tribulations and survival of plantation slave July and her odious mistress Caroline.
