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Finding Your Roots (2012)

Documentary 60m
65%
User
Score
8.7/10

Overview

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.

Top Billed Cast

Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Self - Host

CeCe Moore

CeCe Moore

Self - Genetic Genealogy Expert

Derek Jeter

Derek Jeter

Self

Anderson Cooper

Anderson Cooper

Self

Tom Colicchio

Tom Colicchio

Self

Angela Bassett

Angela Bassett

Self

Valerie Jarrett

Valerie Jarrett

Self

Alan Dershowitz

Alan Dershowitz

Self

Tony Kushner

Tony Kushner

Self

Sally Field

Sally Field

Self

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Media

FINDING YOUR ROOTS | Season 4 Official Teaser Trailer | PBS

FINDING YOUR ROOTS | Season 4 Official Teaser Trailer | PBS

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Seasons

Season 1

Season 1

2012 | 10 Episodes

Season 2

Season 2

2014 | 10 Episodes

Season 3

Season 3

2016 | 10 Episodes

Season 4

Season 4

2017 | 10 Episodes

Season 5

Season 5

2019 | 10 Episodes

Season 6

Season 6

2019 | 16 Episodes

Season 7

Season 7

2021 | 10 Episodes

Season 8

Season 8

2022 | 10 Episodes

Season 9

Season 9

2023 | 10 Episodes

Season 10

Season 10

2024 | 10 Episodes

Season 11

Season 11

2025 | 10 Episodes

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