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Finding Your Roots

Nominación a los PRIMETIME EMMY®
The basic drive to discover who we are and where we come from is at the core of the new series Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Continuing on the quest begun in his previous projects, African American Lives, African American Lives 2, and Faces of America, Gates finds new ways to, as he says, "get into the DNA of American culture."
IMDb 8,7201210 episodiosX-Ray13+
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Episodios

  1. T1 E1 - Harry Connick, Jr. / Branford Marsalis

    24 de marzo de 2012
    53 min
    TV-PG
    Their European immigrant ancestors blazed unconventional trails in America, from capturing British ships for the American Revolution to crossing racial barriers in slave-era Louisiana.
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  2. T1 E2 - Cory Booker / John Lewis

    24 de marzo de 2012
    53 min
    13+
    This program features two African-American politicians from different generations and opposite backgrounds.
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  3. T1 E3 - Barbara Walkers / Geoffrey Canada

    31 de marzo de 2012
    53 min
    TV-PG
    What’s in a name? Well, a lot, at least when it comes to piecing together family history.
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  4. T1 E4 - Kevin Bacon / Kyra Sedgwick

    7 de abril de 2012
    53 min
    13+
    What do Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick have in common? They are both famous actors and both descend from prominent American families that have been in this country since its inception. But they share something else, too: Both had ancestors who were early opponents of slavery.
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  5. T1 E5 - Angela Buchdahl / Rick Warren / Yasir Qadhi

    14 de abril de 2012
    53 min
    16+
    Pastor Rick Warren, Rabbi Angela Buchdahl and Sheik Yasir Qadhi — clerics of three different faiths — all have complex family histories that profoundly shaped their religious beliefs.
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  6. T1 E6 - Maggie Gyllenhaal / Robert Downey, Jr.

    21 de abril de 2012
    53 min
    TODOS
    Many Americans descend from a variety of European ethnicities, with ancestral roots across every country in Europe.
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  7. T1 E7 - Samuel L. Jackson / Condoleezza Rice / Ruth Simmons

    28 de abril de 2012
    53 min
    16+
    Samuel L. Jackson, Condoleezza Rice and Brown University president, Ruth Simmons, have each climbed to the pinnacle of their profession, yet each started life as a second-class citizen in the Jim Crow south.
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  8. T1 E8 - Sanjay Gupta / Margaret Cho / Martha Stewart

    5 de mayo de 2012
    53 min
    TODOS
    The three guests in this episode are all children of first- or second-generation immigrants and share the peculiar burdens of that heritage.
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  9. T1 E9 - John Legend / Wanda Sykes / Margarett Cooper

    12 de mayo de 2012
    53 min
    13+
    Most African Americans struggle to trace their ancestors beyond Emancipation; slavery erased names and family ties with brutal efficiency. But what about the descendants of the handful of free black people who evaded bondage during that terrible time?
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  10. T1 E10 - Michelle Rodriguez / Adrian Grenier / Linda Chavez

    19 de mayo de 2012
    53 min
    13+
    Michelle Rodriguez, Adrian Grenier and Linda Chavez all share Spanish colonial roots, yet each views their own identity very differently.
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