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.

• Released: 2012-03-24
• Genres: Documentary
• Seasons: 13, 127 episodes
• Episode length: 1h 0m
• Network: PBS
• Status: Returning Series
• TMDB rating: 6.5/10 from 20 votes

Top cast

• Henry Louis Gates, Jr. as Self - Host

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Where to watch Finding Your Roots

• United States: stream on PBS, PBS Documentaries Amazon Channel, PBS Living Amazon Channel, Thirteen, WETA+; watch free on Hoopla, PBS, WETA+, The Roku Channel, Pluto TV, Plex, Plex Channel, Xumo Play, KQED; buy on Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home
• United Kingdom: stream on PBS America Amazon Channel; buy on Apple TV Store, Amazon Video
• Canada: stream on PBS Documentaries Amazon Channel; watch free on Hoopla; buy on Apple TV Store
• Australia: stream on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads; watch free on Hoopla; buy on Apple TV Store

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