Could there be a worthy follow-up to the most-watched miniseries ever? Alex Haley said no. But Haley began carrying around a tape recorder, dictating more of his family's tales as they came to his memory. Those remembrances filled a 1,000-page transcript: raw material for Roots: The Next Generations.

Winner of the Emmy for Best Limited Series, this is a landmark continuation of a landmark event - with 53 stars and 235 speaking parts. Even now, it has lost none of its dramatic and emotional power to make us confront history and examine ourselves. One man's family remains everyone's!