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TV Shows & Series: Best "plantation" TV Shows/Series

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Roots(1977)

NR
| 1h 30min per episode | Drama, Documentary
3.7/5 (with 104 votes)

The epic tale of celebrated Pulitzer-prize winning author Alex Haley's ancestors as portrayed in the acclaimed twelve hour mini-series Roots, was first told in his 1976 bestseller Roots: The Saga of an American Family. The docu-drama covers a period of history that begins in mid-1700s Gambia, West Africa and concludes during post-Civil War United States, over 100 years later. This 1977 miniseries eventually won 9 Emmy awards, a Golden Globe award, and a Peabody award, and still stands as the most watched miniseries in U.S. history.

Directed by Marvin J. Chomsky, John Erman - With LeVar Burton, Leslie Uggams, Louis Gossett Jr., Olivia Cole, Vic Morrow, Lynne Moody, ...

Terra Nostra(1999-2000)

Soap / Telenovela
3.3/5 (with 6 votes)

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.

Directed by Jayme Monjardim - With Ana Paula Arósio, Thiago Lacerda, Raul Cortez, Antônio Fagundes, Maria Fernanda Cândido

Roots(2016)

NR
| 1h 30min per episode | Drama, Action & Adventure
3.4/5 (with 78 votes)

An adaptation of Alex Haley's "Roots", chronicling the history of an African slave, Kunta Kinte sold to America and his descendants.

Directed by Bruce Beresford, Thomas Carter, Phillip Noyce, Mario Van Peebles - With Malachi Kirby, Forest Whitaker, Anna Paquin, Laurence Fishburne, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Emayatzy Corinealdi, ...

Gabriela(2012)

45min per episode | Comedy, Drama, Soap / Telenovela
4.2/5 (with 7 votes)

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.

With Juliana Paes

Alex Haley's Queen(1993)

1h per episode | Drama
3.6/5 (with 10 votes)

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.

Directed by John Erman - With Halle Berry

Underground(2016-2017)

TV-MA
| 42min per episode | Drama
3.4/5 (with 35 votes)

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.

With Aldis Hodge, Jurnee Smollett, Christopher Meloni

Kindred(2022)

TV-MA
| Drama
3.4/5 (with 14 votes)

A young aspiring writer discovers secrets about her family's past when she finds herself mysteriously being pulled back and forth in time to a 19th century plantation.

Directed by Janicza Bravo - With Micah Stock, Ryan Kwanten, Gayle Rankin

The Long Song(2018)

TV-14
| 1h per episode | Drama
3.3/5 (with 5 votes)

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.

With Tamara Lawrance

The Flame Trees of Thika(1981)

1h per episode | Drama
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

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.

Directed by Roy Ward Baker - With Hayley Mills