Finding Your Roots 2012
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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S1·E1 Branford Marsalis and Harry Connick, Jr.Their European immigrant ancestors blazed unconventional trails in America, from capturing British ships for the American Revolution to crossing racial barriers in…
S1·E2 John Lewis and Cory BookerIn this episode, we feature two African American politicians from different generations and opposite backgrounds. John Lewis grew up in a sharecropping family in rural…
S1·E3 Barbara Walters and Geoffrey CanadaWhat's in a name? Well, a lot, at least when it comes to piecing together your family history. For former slaves, choosing a last name was one of their first acts of…
S1·E4 Kyra Sedgwick and Kevin BaconWhat do Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick have in common? They are both famous actors and both descend from prominent American families that have been in this country since…
S1·E5 Rick Warren, Angela Buchdahl and Yasir QadhiPastor Rick Warren, Rabbi Angela Buchdahl and Sheik Yasir Qadhi are of three different faiths, all with complex family histories that profoundly shaped their religious…
S1·E6 Robert Downey, Jr. and Maggie GyllenhaalMany American descend from a dense soups of European ethnicities; we could call them mutts, with ancestral roots across every country in Europe. Actors Robert Downey,…
S1·E7 Samuel L. Jackson, Condoleezza Rice and Ruth SimmonsSamuel L. Jackson, Condoleezza Rice and Brown University President Ruth Simmons have each climbed to the pinnacle of their profession, yet each started life as a second…
S1·E8 Martha Stewart, Margaret Cho and Sanjay GuptaThe three guests in this episode are all children of first- or second-generation immigrants and share the peculiar burdens of that heritage. In an episode that…
S1·E9 John Legend and Wanda SykesMost African Americans struggle to trace their ancestors beyond Emancipation; slavery erased names and family ties with brutal efficiency. But what about the descendants…
S1·E10 Adrian Grenier, Michelle Rodriguez and Linda ChavezMichelle Rodriguez, Adrian Grenier and Linda Chavez all share Spanish colonial roots, yet each views their own identity very differently. In this episode we ask what it…Cast
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Kehinde Wiley
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Joe Madison
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Kara Walker
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Geoffrey Canada
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Angela Warnick Buchdahl
Self
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Yasir Qadhi
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Rick Warren
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Ruth Simmons
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Margarett Cooper
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Linda Chavez
Self
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Rebecca Lobo
Self
Crew
- Executive Producers
- Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Peter W. Kunhardt, Dyllan McGee
Details
- First air date
- Mar 24, 2012
- Last air date
- Apr 14, 2026
- Seasons
- 13
- Episodes
- 127
- Episode runtime
- 60 min
- Network
- PBS
- Status
- Returning Series
- Studios
- Kunhardt McGee Productions, Ark Media, Inkwell Films
- Country
- United States of America
- Language
- English
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