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.
Cast: Henry Louis Gates
Secrets & Lies
Sigourney Weaver, Justina Machado and Amy Ryan explore their ancestry.
Beyond the Pale
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. explores the Jewish heritages of actor Jeff Goldblum, radio host Terry Gross, and comedian Marc Maron, uncovering previously unknown stories that show each shares much more with their ancestors than a religious tradition.
This Land Is My Land
The unexpected family trees of Queen Latifah and Jeffrey Wright challenge preconceptions about America's past.
Homecomings
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. helps actor Sterling K. Brown, comedian Sasheer Zamata and musician Jon Batiste discover the unexpected places their ancestors once called home, providing new insight into the people and places that made them who they are today.
Off the Farm
Melissa McCarthy and Eric Stonestreet, two comics who moved away from their homey family farms to pursue a career in fashion and clownship only to find unexpected success in Hollywood, learn what they have in common with their ancestors.
Hollywood Royalty
Three actresses who come from Hollywood royalty, Anjelica Huston, Mia Farrow (whose segment is taken from Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.: Maps of the Stars (2016)) and Isabella Rossellini, learn their family histories.