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Finding Your Roots

2012 · 13 seasons

A calm, scholarly host walks guests through their own history, and the quiet discoveries land with surprising emotional force.

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Documentary
Overview
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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Measured and needs your attention.
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Identity, family, memory, race
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No violence, gore, sexual content or swearing.
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    measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
    Attention
    engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
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    contemporary
    Audience
    adult
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    • Language none
    • Violence none
    • Sex none
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    Action0
    Horror0
    Humour2
    Realism10
    Romance1
    Tension2
    Darkness2
    Complexity4
    Emotional weight6

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    Details

    Genres
    documentary
    Created by
    Hazel Gurland-Pooler, Jesse Sweet, Josh Gleason, Phil Bertelsen
    Written by
    Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
    Starring
    Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Donna Brazile, Kara Walker, Bill Maher, Bill O'Reilly, Dustin Hoffman, Sterling K. Brown, Sasheer Zamata
    Length
    13 seasons, 127 episodes, 60 min each
    Network
    PBS
    Country
    United States of America
    Languages
    English

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