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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Next episode: S13E1 · 2027-01-12

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  1. 1 1. Larger Than Life2025-01-07Research into the ancestry of singer Lea Salonga and actress Amanda Seyfried reveals relatives who survived heart-wrenching ordeals.
  2. 2 2. La Famiglia2025-01-14Exploring the Italian roots of television host Joy Behar and actor Michael Imperioli.
  3. 3 3. Stranger Than Fiction2025-01-21Traveling across China and the American South to reveal the ancestry of novelist Amy Tan and poet Rita Dove.
  4. 4 4. Dreamers One and All2025-01-28Exploring the ancestry of actress Sharon Stone and model Chrissy Teigen includes travelling across Europe and Thailand.
  5. 5 5. Family Recipes2025-02-04Exploring the ancestry of chefs José Andrés and Sean Sherman.
  6. 6 6. Latin Roots2025-02-11Tracing the family trees of musician Rubén Blades and journalist Natalie Morales.
  7. 7 7. The Ties That Bind2025-02-18Actors Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard learn about their family histories, which includes stories of soldiers, settlers and criminals.
  8. 8 8. The Butterfly Effect2025-02-25Actresses Debra Messing and Melanie Lynskey explore the stories of their ancestors whose bold decisions reshaped their families.
  9. 9 9. Moving on Up2025-04-01Henry Louis Gates, Jr. meets Sheryl Lee Ralph and Lonnie Bunch - two African Americans trace their ancestors, who overcame slavery and traveled from southern plantations to norther
  10. 10 10. Finding My Roots2025-04-08Family mysteries: actor Laurence Fishburne and scholar Henry Lewis Gates, Jr. peer into their mysterious family roots using DNA evidence to track down lost family members and their

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Henry Louis Gates, Jr.Self - Host

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