Finding Your Roots

Culture Series / 7 Seasons

For more than a decade, renowned Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr. has helped to expand America’s sense of itself, stimulating a national conversation about identity with humor, wisdom, and compassion. Professor Gates has explored the ancestry of dozens of influential people from diverse backgrounds, taking millions of viewers deep into the past to reveal the connections that bind us all.

52m 10s / TV-PG

Finding Your Roots Season 4 - Episode 9 Promo

30s / TV-PG

Questlove, Dr. Phil and Charlayne Hunter-Gault. Three guests of disparate backgrounds dig into their Southern roots, where slavery and its aftermath shaped families both black and white.

Finding Your Roots Season 4 - Episode 2 Promo

30s / TV-G

In this episode, three guests each learn about a grandparent whose real identity and background had been a mystery to them. Along the way, two of them also discover that their close relatives were on the wrong side of history.

Finding Your Roots: The Seedlings Trailer

30s / TV-G

“Finding Your Roots: The Seedlings” is a new web series that follows 13 young people at a new genetics and genealogy camp as they use science to answer the question “Who am I?” Inspired by the popular PBS series "Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr." and shot on the campus of Penn State University, campers explore their own family history and DNA ancestry with techniques never before use

Finding Your Roots Season 4 - Episode 1 Promo

30s / TV-G

Larry David and Bernie Sanders. Two guests linked by one hilarious impersonation trace their roots from 1940s Brooklyn back to Jewish communities in Europe. Premieres Tues., Oct. 3, 2017

Season 4 Official Trailer

3m 22s

Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. returns to PBS with a new season on October 3rd to explore the fascinating family trees of popular figures including Ana Navarro, Bernie Sanders, Garrison Keillor, Mary Steenburgen, Scarlett Johansson, Ted Danson, William H. Macy, and others!

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