Finding Your Roots(2012)
Documentary
First Air Date: 2012-03-24
Average Runtime: 1h 0m
Rating: 6.4
Votes: 19
Seasons: 12
Episodes: 126
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.
Keywords
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Seasons & Episodes
Season 1
Episodes: 10E01
Branford Marsalis and Harry Connick, Jr.
Air Date: 2012-03-24
Their European immigrant ancestors blazed unconventional trails in America, from capturing British ships for the Amer...
E02
John Lewis and Cory Booker
Air Date: 2012-03-24
In this episode, we feature two African American politicians from different generations and opposite backgrounds. Joh...
E03
Barbara Walters and Geoffrey Canada
Air Date: 2012-04-01
What's in a name? Well, a lot, at least when it comes to piecing together your family history. For former slaves, cho...
E04
Kyra Sedgwick and Kevin Bacon
Air Date: 2012-04-07
What do Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick have in common? They are both famous actors and both descend from prominent Ame...
E05
Rick Warren, Angela Buchdahl and Yasir Qadhi
Air Date: 2012-04-14
Pastor Rick Warren, Rabbi Angela Buchdahl and Sheik Yasir Qadhi are of three different faiths, all with complex famil...
E06
Robert Downey, Jr. and Maggie Gyllenhaal
Air Date: 2012-04-28
Many American descend from a dense soups of European ethnicities; we could call them mutts, with ancestral roots acro...
E07
Samuel L. Jackson, Condoleezza Rice and Ruth Simmons
Air Date: 2012-04-29
Samuel L. Jackson, Condoleezza Rice and Brown University President Ruth Simmons have each climbed to the pinnacle of ...
E08
Martha Stewart, Margaret Cho and Sanjay Gupta
Air Date: 2012-05-06
The three guests in this episode are all children of first- or second-generation immigrants and share the peculiar bu...
E09
John Legend and Wanda Sykes
Air Date: 2012-05-13
Most African Americans struggle to trace their ancestors beyond Emancipation; slavery erased names and family ties wi...
E10
Adrian Grenier, Michelle Rodriguez and Linda Chavez
Air Date: 2012-05-20
Michelle Rodriguez, Adrian Grenier and Linda Chavez all share Spanish colonial roots, yet each views their own identi...
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