a film by Kunhardt McGee Productions, Inkwell Films, and THIRTEEN Productions, LLC, in association with Ark Media ; senior producer, Rachel Dretzin ; written by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. ; directors, Phil Bertelsen, Leslie Asaka Gladsjo, Sabin Streeter, Jamilla Wignot
produced by the National Geographic Society and WQED, Pittsburgh ; executive producers, Dennis B. Kane, Thomas Skinner ; produced and photographed by Stanley Breeden, Belinda Wright ; written by Stanley Breeden
a Mitchell Beazley Television, RM Arts/Channel Four co-production in association with the Nigerian Television Authority ; written and presented by Basil Davidson ; produced by John Percival ; directed by John Percival, Christopher Ralling, Andrew Harries, and Mick Csaky