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Finding Your Roots (2012)

6.5 13 seasons 127 episodes Returning Series

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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Seasons & episodes

Grandparents and Other StrangersJan 8, 2019 · 1h 0m

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. helps actor Andy Samberg and author George R. R. Martin answer some family mysteries when DNA detective work uncover…

Mystery MenJan 15, 2019 · 1h 0m

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. helps actors Felicity Huffman and Michael K. Williams discover a wealth of hidden family history. Both grew up knowi…

Reporting on the ReportersJan 22, 2019 · 1h 0m

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. shows journalists Christiane Amanpour, Ann Curry and Lisa Ling that the stories within their own family trees are ev…

Dreaming of a New LandJan 29, 2019 · 1h 0m

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. explores with Marisa Tomei, Sheryl Sandberg and Kal Penn the tremendous challenges faced by their immigrant forebear…

Freedom TalesFeb 5, 2019 · 1h 0m

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. delves deep into the roots of two African-American guests, actor S. Epatha Merkerson and athlete and television pers…

Roots in PoliticsFeb 12, 2019 · 1h 0m

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. explores the diverse family histories of politicians Paul Ryan, Tulsi Gabbard and Marco Rubio. They each see a share…

No Laughing MatterFeb 19, 2019 · 1h 0m

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. shows comedians Seth Meyers, Tig Notaro and Sarah Silverman that their family trees are filled with people whose str…

Hard TimesFeb 26, 2019 · 1h 0m

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. explores the family stories of filmmaker Michael Moore and actors Laura Linney and Chloë Sevigny—three people whose…

The Eye of the BeholderApr 2, 2019 · 1h 0m

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. shares the family histories of director Alejandro G. Iñárritu, iconoclastic performance artist Marina Abramović and…

All in the FamilyApr 9, 2019 · 1h 0m

The family stories of actor Ty Burrell, and radio host Joe Madison. Also a look at how a summer camp for children is using genetic genealog…

Cast

Henry Louis Gates, Jr.Self - Host