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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Episode 1 - Larger Than Life
Release Date: 2025-01-07Research into the ancestry of singer Lea Salonga and actress Amanda Seyfried reveals relatives who survived heart-wrenching ordeals.
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Episode 2 - La Famiglia
Release Date: 2025-01-14Exploring the Italian roots of television host Joy Behar and actor Michael Imperioli.
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Episode 3 - Stranger Than Fiction
Release Date: 2025-01-21Traveling across China and the American South to reveal the ancestry of novelist Amy Tan and poet Rita Dove.
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Episode 4 - Dreamers One and All
Release Date: 2025-01-28Exploring the ancestry of actress Sharon Stone and model Chrissy Teigen includes travelling across Europe and Thailand.
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Episode 5 - Family Recipes
Release Date: 2025-02-04Exploring the ancestry of chefs José Andrés and Sean Sherman.
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Episode 6 - Latin Roots
Release Date: 2025-02-11Tracing the family trees of musician Rubén Blades and journalist Natalie Morales.
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Episode 7 - The Ties That Bind
Release Date: 2025-02-18Actors Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard learn about their family histories, which includes stories of soldiers, settlers and criminals.
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Episode 8 - The Butterfly Effect
Release Date: 2025-02-25Actresses Debra Messing and Melanie Lynskey explore the stories of their ancestors whose bold decisions reshaped their families.
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Episode 9 - Moving on Up
Release Date: 2025-04-01Laurence Fishburne and Sheryl Lee Ralph learn about their family histories.
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Episode 10 - Finding My Roots
Release Date: 2025-04-08A solution to a mystery that has haunted the Gates family for generations is revealed.