Finding Your Roots

Finding Your Roots (2012)

★ 6.5 TV-PG 1h 0m Documentary

Noted Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr. has been helping people discover long-lost relatives hidden for generations within the branches of their family trees. Professor Gates utilizes a team of genealogists to reconstruct the paper trail left behind by our ancestors and the world’s leading geneticists to decode our DNA and help us travel thousands of years into the past to discover the origins of our earliest forebears.

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Episodes

Next episode: S13E1 · 2027-01-12

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  1. 1 1. Born To Sing2024-01-02Singers Ciara and Alanis Morissette examine their family histories.
  2. 2 2. Forever Young2024-01-09Actors Valerie Bertinelli and Brendan Fraser explore their family histories
  3. 3 3. Fathers and Sons2024-01-16Actors LeVar Burton and Wes Studi, two men who grew up without their fathers, explore their family histories.
  4. 4 4. Buried Secrets2024-01-23Singer Sammy Hagar and actor Ed O'Neill uncover their roots and discover deep family secrets.
  5. 5 5. Hold the Laughter2024-01-30Actor Bob Odenkirk and comic Iliza Shlesinger explore their family histories and learn about relatives who took great risks to overcome hardships.
  6. 6 6. Far and Away2024-02-06Henry Louis Gates, Jr. explores the extraordinarily diverse roots of journalist Sunny Hostin and actor Jesse Williams—telling long-lost stories of African and European ancestry tha
  7. 7 7. The Brick Wall Falls2024-02-13HenryLouis Gates, Jr. helps musician Dionne Warwick and actor Danielle Brooks break down barriers imposed by the slave system to learn the names of their ancestors who endured unim
  8. 8 8. Mean Streets2024-02-20Comic Tracy Morgan and actor Anthony Ramos, both native New Yorkers, map their family trees.
  9. 9 9. In the Blood2024-04-02Henry Louis Gates, Jr. explores the roots of actor Michael Douglas & writer-director Lena Dunham. Both are the children of famous artists, but their family trees contain a cast of
  10. 10 10. "Viewers Like You"2024-04-09Henry Louis Gates, Jr. solves mysteries for 3 everyday Americans chosen to be guests.

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Henry Louis Gates, Jr.Self - Host

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