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Finding Your Roots
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.
- Cast:
- Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
- Language:
- English
- Country:
- United States of America
- Network:
- PBS
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Seasons
Season 4
Episodes
E01
Episode 1
The Impression
2017-10-02 · 60mJoin Larry David and Bernie Sanders, who learn they have more in common than they thought.
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E02
Episode 2
Unfamiliar Kin
2017-10-10 · 60mGuests: Carly Simon, Christopher Walken, and more. In this episode, three guests each learn about a grandparent whose real identity and background had been a mystery to them. Along the way, two of them also discover that their close relatives were on the wrong side of history.
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E03
Episode 3
Puritans and Pioneers
2017-10-17 · 60mGuests: Ted Danson, Mary Steenburgen and William H. Macy. Three mainstays of modern-day Hollywood discover family legacies that predate the United States itself.
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E04
Episode 4
The Vanguard
2017-10-24 · 60mGuests: Ta-Nehisi Coates, Ava DuVernay and Janet Mock. Three guests who have helped to redefine Black America in the last decade find their identities challenged as they learn about their family origins.
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E05
Episode 5
Immigrant Nation
2017-10-31 · 60mGuests: Scarlett Johansson, Paul Rudd and John Turturro. In this episode, three guests explore the tremendous challenges faced by their immigrant forebears.
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E06
Episode 6
Black Like Me
2017-11-07 · 60mGuests: Bryant Gumbel, Tonya Lewis-Lee and Suzanne Malveaux. Three African-American guests delve deep into their family trees, discovering unexpected stories that challenge our assumptions about black history.
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E07
Episode 7
Children of the Revolution
2017-11-14 · 60mGuests: Lupita Nyong’o, Carmelo Anthony and Ana Navarro. Three guests explore how their family trees were shaped by political turmoil and violence, discovering sometimes unexpected ancestry along the way.
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E08
Episode 8
Relatives We Never Knew We Had
2017-11-21 · 60mGuests: Gaby Hoffmann and Téa Leoni. Two guests whose lives have been shaped by family mysteries are introduced to biological ancestors they never knew they had thanks to genetic detective work.
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E09
Episode 9
Southern Roots
2017-12-12 · 60mGuests: Questlove, Dr. Phil and Charlayne Hunter-Gault. Three guests of disparate backgrounds dig into their Southern roots, where slavery and its aftermath shaped families both black and white.
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E10
Episode 10
Funny Business
2017-12-19 · 60mGuests: Amy Schumer and more. Guests who have found fame mining their family stories for comedy learn about ancestors who overcame immense suffering.
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Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
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