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Finding Your Roots

6.5 IMDb tt2326517 2012 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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Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Branford Marsalis and Harry Connick, Jr.

Branford Marsalis and Harry Connick, Jr. 1h 0m Their European immigrant ancestors blazed unconventional trails in America, from capturing British ships for the American Revolution to…

John Lewis and Cory Booker

John Lewis and Cory Booker 1h 0m In this episode, we feature two African American politicians from different generations and opposite backgrounds. John Lewis grew…

Barbara Walters and Geoffrey Canada

Barbara Walters and Geoffrey Canada 1h 0m What's in a name? Well, a lot, at least when it comes to piecing together your family history.…

Kyra Sedgwick and Kevin Bacon

Kyra Sedgwick and Kevin Bacon 1h 0m What do Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick have in common? They are both famous actors and both descend…

Rick Warren, Angela Buchdahl and Yasir Qadhi

Rick Warren, Angela Buchdahl and Yasir Qadhi 1h 0m Pastor Rick Warren, Rabbi Angela Buchdahl and Sheik Yasir Qadhi are of three different faiths, all with complex…

Robert Downey, Jr. and Maggie Gyllenhaal

Robert Downey, Jr. and Maggie Gyllenhaal 1h 0m Many American descend from a dense soups of European ethnicities; we could call them mutts, with ancestral roots…

Samuel L. Jackson, Condoleezza Rice and Ruth Simmons

Samuel L. Jackson, Condoleezza Rice and Ruth Simmons 1h 0m Samuel L. Jackson, Condoleezza Rice and Brown University President Ruth Simmons have each climbed to the pinnacle of…

Martha Stewart, Margaret Cho and Sanjay Gupta

Martha Stewart, Margaret Cho and Sanjay Gupta 1h 0m The three guests in this episode are all children of first- or second-generation immigrants and share the peculiar…

John Legend and Wanda Sykes

John Legend and Wanda Sykes 1h 0m Most African Americans struggle to trace their ancestors beyond Emancipation; slavery erased names and family ties with brutal…

Adrian Grenier, Michelle Rodriguez and Linda Chavez

Adrian Grenier, Michelle Rodriguez and Linda Chavez 1h 0m Michelle Rodriguez, Adrian Grenier and Linda Chavez all share Spanish colonial roots, yet each views their own identity…

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