Finding Your Roots (2012)
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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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Henry Louis Gates, Jr.Self - Host
Donna BrazileSelfKara WalkerSelf
Bill MaherSelf
Bill O'ReillySelf
Dustin HoffmanSelf
Sterling K. BrownSelf
Sasheer ZamataSelf
Jon BatisteSelf
Harry Connick Jr.Self
Branford MarsalisSelf
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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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Finding Your Roots has a runtime of 60 minutes.
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