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Alex Haley's Queen / Videorecording

Material type: TextPublication details: s.p. : Warner Bros., c1992.Description: 2 videocassettes (283 min.) : color color; 4 3/4 inISBN:
  • 0790728893
  • 9780790728896
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • E185.97.H24
Summary: There are two sides to every story, the saying goes. For Alex Haley, one side was Roots, the towering chronicle tracing seven generations of his mother's family. The other side come to the screen in Alex Haley's Queen, the remarkable history of the paternal side of the author's family. David L. Wolper is executive producer of this acclaimed adaptation of the story Haley was working on when he died. Halle Berry plays Queen, daughter of a slave and a plantation owner. During the turbulent decades of the antebellum South, the Civil war, Reconstruction and beyond, she searches for a home in the two cultures of her heritage-and at times is shunned by both. Rejection and hate are no match for her unconquerable will, however. Ann-Margret, Danny Glover and Ossie Davis are also among the many stars of this poignany, uplifting final chapter of the Haley legacy
Item type: Audiovisual Item
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Released 1992.


There are two sides to every story, the saying goes. For Alex Haley, one side was Roots, the towering chronicle tracing seven generations of his mother's family. The other side come to the screen in Alex Haley's Queen, the remarkable history of the paternal side of the author's family. David L. Wolper is executive producer of this acclaimed adaptation of the story Haley was working on when he died. Halle Berry plays Queen, daughter of a slave and a plantation owner. During the turbulent decades of the antebellum South, the Civil war, Reconstruction and beyond, she searches for a home in the two cultures of her heritage-and at times is shunned by both. Rejection and hate are no match for her unconquerable will, however. Ann-Margret, Danny Glover and Ossie Davis are also among the many stars of this poignany, uplifting final chapter of the Haley legacy