Finding Your Roots
Documentary
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.
Episodes
E1
60 min
Episode
1
EP1:
Branford Marsalis and Harry Connick, Jr.
Mar 24, 2012
E2
60 min
Episode
2
EP2:
John Lewis and Cory Booker
Mar 24, 2012
E3
60 min
Episode
3
EP3:
Barbara Walters and Geoffrey Canada
Apr 1, 2012
E4
60 min
Episode
4
EP4:
Kyra Sedgwick and Kevin Bacon
Apr 7, 2012
E5
60 min
Episode
5
EP5:
Rick Warren, Angela Buchdahl and Yasir Qadhi
Apr 14, 2012
E6
60 min
Episode
6
EP6:
Robert Downey, Jr. and Maggie Gyllenhaal
Apr 28, 2012
E7
60 min
Episode
7
EP7:
Samuel L. Jackson, Condoleezza Rice and Ruth Simmons
Apr 29, 2012
E8
60 min
Episode
8
EP8:
Martha Stewart, Margaret Cho and Sanjay Gupta
May 6, 2012
E9
60 min
Episode
9
EP9:
John Legend and Wanda Sykes
May 13, 2012
E10
60 min
Episode
10
EP10:
Adrian Grenier, Michelle Rodriguez and Linda Chavez
May 20, 2012
Cast
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Self - Host
CeCe Moore
Self - Genetic Genealogy Expert
Derek Jeter
Self
Anderson Cooper
Self
Tom Colicchio
Self
Angela Bassett
Self
Valerie Jarrett
Self
Alan Dershowitz
Self
Tony Kushner
Self
Sally Field
Self
Tina Fey
Self
Nas
Self
Aarón Sánchez
Self
Sting
Self
George Stephanopoulos
Self
Maya Rudolph
Self
Ty Burrell
Self
Mia Farrow
Self
Soledad O'Brien
Self
Jimmy Kimmel
Self
