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Finding Your Roots

2012 · TV-PG · 13 seasons · 127 episodes

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Synopsis

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.

About 127h to watch every episode. An estimate: 127 episodes at the typical episode runtime of 60 minutes.

TMDB lists the next episode for Jan 12, 2027.

Where to watch

Official options in the United States:

Subscription

  • PBS
  • PBS Documentaries Amazon Channel
  • PBS Living Amazon Channel
  • Thirteen
  • WETA+

Free

  • Hoopla
  • PBS
  • WETA+

Free with ads

  • Plex Channel
  • The Roku Channel
  • Pluto TV
  • Plex
  • KQED

Buy

  • Amazon Video
  • Apple TV Store
  • Google Play Movies
  • Fandango At Home

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Play trailer: FINDING YOUR ROOTS | Season 4 Official Teaser Trailer | PBS

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Main cast

  • Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
    Self - Host
    127 episodes

  • CeCe Moore
    Self - Genetic Genealogy Expert
    7 episodes

  • Derek Jeter
    Self
    2 episodes

  • Anderson Cooper
    Self
    2 episodes

  • Tom Colicchio
    Self
    2 episodes

  • Angela Bassett
    Self
    2 episodes

  • Valerie Jarrett
    Self
    2 episodes

  • Alan Dershowitz
    Self
    2 episodes

  • Tony Kushner
    Self
    2 episodes

  • Sally Field
    Self
    2 episodes

  • Tina Fey
    Self
    2 episodes

  • Nas
    Self
    2 episodes

  • Aarón Sánchez
    Self
    2 episodes

  • Sting
    Self
    2 episodes

  • George Stephanopoulos
    Self
    2 episodes

  • Maya Rudolph
    Self
    2 episodes

  • Ty Burrell
    Self
    2 episodes

  • Mia Farrow
    Self
    2 episodes

Seasons