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Running · 2012–

Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates Jr.

History

Since the premiere of his groundbreaking series African American Lives through the first season of Finding Your Roots , 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.

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S13 E01 · TBA · 2027-01-12

Seasons & episodes

Season 1 · 10 episodes
  1. S01 E01 · Harry Connick Jr. - Branford Marsalis
  2. S01 E02 · Cory Booker and John Lewis
  3. S01 E03 · Barbara Walters - Geoffrey Canada
  4. S01 E04 · Kevin Bacon - Kyra Sedgwick
  5. S01 E05 · Angela Buchdahl - Rick Warren - Yasir Qadhi
  6. S01 E06 · Robert Downey, Jr. and Maggie Gyllenhaal
  7. S01 E07 · Samuel L. Jackson - Condoleezza Rice - Ruth Simmons
  8. S01 E08 · Sanjay Gupta - Margaret Cho - Martha Stewart
  9. S01 E09 · John Legend - Wanda Sykes - Margarett Cooper
  10. S01 E10 · Michelle Rodriguez - Adrian Grenier - Linda Chavez
Season 2 · 10 episodes
  1. S02 E01 · In Search of Our Fathers
  2. S02 E02 · Born Champions
  3. S02 E03 · Our American Storytellers
  4. S02 E04 · Roots of Freedom
  5. S02 E05 · The Melting Pot
  6. S02 E06 · We Come From People
  7. S02 E07 · Our People, Our Traditions
  8. S02 E08 · The British Invasion
  9. S02 E09 · Ancient Roots
  10. S02 E10 · Decoding Our Past
Season 3 · 10 episodes
  1. S03 E01 · The Stories We Tell
  2. S03 E02 · The Irish Factor
  3. S03 E03 · In Search of Freedom
  4. S03 E04 · Tragedy + Time = Comedy
  5. S03 E05 · Visionaries
  6. S03 E06 · War Stories
  7. S03 E07 · Family Reunions
  8. S03 E08 · The Pioneers
  9. S03 E09 · The Long Way Home
  10. S03 E10 · Maps of Stars
Season 4 · 10 episodes
  1. S04 E01 · The Impression
  2. S04 E02 · Unfamiliar Kin
  3. S04 E03 · Puritans and Pioneers
  4. S04 E04 · The Vanguard
  5. S04 E05 · Immigrant Nation
  6. S04 E06 · Black Like Me
  7. S04 E07 · Children of the Revolution
  8. S04 E08 · Relatives We Never Knew We Had
  9. S04 E09 · Southern Roots
  10. S04 E10 · Funny Business
Season 5 · 10 episodes
  1. S05 E01 · Grandparents and Other Strangers
  2. S05 E02 · Mystery Men
  3. S05 E03 · Reporting on the Reporters
  4. S05 E04 · Dreaming of a New Land
  5. S05 E05 · Freedom Tales
  6. S05 E06 · Roots in Politics
  7. S05 E07 · No Laughing Matter
  8. S05 E08 · Hard Times
  9. S05 E09 · The Eye of the Beholder
  10. S05 E10 · All in the Family
Season 6 · 16 episodes
  1. S06 E01 · Hollywood Royalty
  2. S06 E02 · Off the Farm
  3. S06 E03 · Homecomings
  4. S06 E04 · This Land Is My Land
  5. S06 E05 · Beyond the Pale
  6. S06 E06 · Secrets and Lies
  7. S06 E07 · Science Pioneers
  8. S06 E08 · Slave Trade
  9. S06 E09 · Italian Roots
  10. S06 E10 · Criminal Kind
  11. S06 E11 · Fashion's Roots
  12. S06 E12 · DNA Mysteries
  13. S06 E13 · War Stories
  14. S06 E14 · Flight
  15. S06 E15 · Breaking Silences
  16. S06 E16 · Coming to America
Season 7 · 10 episodes
  1. S07 E01 · To the Manor Born
  2. S07 E02 · Against All Odds
  3. S07 E03 · No Irish Need Apply
  4. S07 E04 · The Shirts on Their Backs
  5. S07 E05 · Write My Name in the Book of Life
  6. S07 E06 · Country Roots
  7. S07 E07 · The New World
  8. S07 E08 · Anchored to the Past
  9. S07 E09 · On Broadway
  10. S07 E10 · Laughing on the Inside
Season 8 · 10 episodes
  1. S08 E01 · Hidden in the Genes
  2. S08 E02 · Children of Exile
  3. S08 E03 · Activist Roots
  4. S08 E04 · Things We Don't Discuss
  5. S08 E05 · Mexican Roots
  6. S08 E06 · Fighters
  7. S08 E07 · Forgotten Journeys
  8. S08 E08 · Songs of the Past
  9. S08 E09 · Watchmen
  10. S08 E10 · Where Did We Come From?
Season 9 · 10 episodes
  1. S09 E01 · Hidden Kin
  2. S09 E02 · Salem's Lot
  3. S09 E03 · Secret Lives
  4. S09 E04 · Far From Home
  5. S09 E05 · Rising From the Ashes
  6. S09 E06 · Family: Lost and Found
  7. S09 E07 · Chosen
  8. S09 E08 · And Still I Rise
  9. S09 E09 · Anchormen
  10. S09 E10 · Out of the Past
Season 10 · 10 episodes
  1. S10 E01 · Born To Sing
  2. S10 E02 · Forever Young
  3. S10 E03 · Fathers and Sons
  4. S10 E04 · Buried Secrets
  5. S10 E05 · Hold the Laughter
  6. S10 E06 · Far and Away
  7. S10 E07 · The Brick Wall Falls
  8. S10 E08 · Mean Streets
  9. S10 E09 · In the Blood
  10. S10 E10 · Viewers Like You
Season 11 · 10 episodes
  1. S11 E01 · Larger Than Life
  2. S11 E02 · La Famiglia
  3. S11 E03 · Stranger Than Fiction
  4. S11 E04 · Dreamers One and All
  5. S11 E05 · Family Recipes
  6. S11 E06 · Latin Roots
  7. S11 E07 · The Ties That Bind
  8. S11 E08 · The Butterfly Effect
  9. S11 E09 · Moving on Up
  10. S11 E10 · Finding My Roots
Season 12 · 10 episodes
  1. S12 E01 · American Dreams
  2. S12 E02 · Great Migrations
  3. S12 E03 · Caribbean Roots
  4. S12 E04 · The Road We Took
  5. S12 E05 · Love & Basketball
  6. S12 E06 · Westward Bound
  7. S12 E07 · Family Harmonies
  8. S12 E08 · Artistic Roots
  9. S12 E09 · Song of the South
  10. S12 E10 · Rags to Riches
Season 13 · 1 episodes
  1. S13 E01 · TBA

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