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Finding Your Roots

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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.

Finding Your Roots (2012)

March. 24,2012

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Finding Your Roots

2012 / TV-PG

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Seasons & Episode

Seasons 10 : 2024

10 Episode

Episode 10 - "Viewers Like You"

April. 09,2024

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. solves mysteries for 3 everyday Americans chosen to be guests.

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Episode 9 - In the Blood

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Henry 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 fascinating characters whose lives were forgotten—until now.

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Episode 8 - Mean Streets

February. 20,2024

Comic Tracy Morgan and actor Anthony Ramos, both native New Yorkers, map their family trees.

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Episode 7 - The Brick Wall Falls

February. 13,2024

HenryLouis 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 unimaginable ordeals but emerged to forge families that thrived.

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Episode 6 - Far and Away

February. 06,2024

Henry 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 that compel his guests to rethink their own identities.

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Episode 5 - Hold the Laughter

January. 30,2024

Actor Bob Odenkirk and comic Iliza Shlesinger explore their family histories and learn about relatives who took great risks to overcome hardships.

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Episode 4 - Buried Secrets

January. 23,2024

Singer Sammy Hagar and actor Ed O'Neill uncover their roots and discover deep family secrets.

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