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Finding Your Roots (2012)

6.21h 0mDocumentary

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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A high-signal pick with 21 votes.

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Director: Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

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Henry Louis Gates, Jr. as Self - Host

Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

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