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Finding Your Roots

Before the popularity of AncestryDNA, journalist and cultural critic Henry Louis Gates, Jr. divulges the family trees of various celebrities, many times with stunning revelations.

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Genre

documentary, biography, history

Production

Kunhardt McGee Productions,Ark Media,Inkwell Films

Awards

2 nominations

Homepage

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/finding-your-roots/

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Henry Louis Gates Jr.

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Sterling K. Brown

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Anderson Cooper

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George Stephanopoulos

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Aarón Sánchez

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Alan Dershowitz

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Valerie Jarrett

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Soledad O'Brien

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S. Epatha Merkerson

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Melissa Villaseñor

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Brittany Packnett Cunningham

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Robert Downey Jr.

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Harry Connick Jr.

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Melissa McCarthy

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Alejandro G. Iñárritu

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Maggie Gyllenhaal

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Branford Marsalis

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Eric Stonestreet

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Marina Abramovic

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Margarett Cooper

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Samuel L. Jackson

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Michelle Rodriguez

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Robert Downey Sr.

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Barbara Walters

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Condoleezza Rice

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Self - Kyra's Uncle

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Self - Expert on Slave Era Law, Albany Law School

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Geoffrey Canada

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Ronald Lamar Stephens

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Self - Historian, San Francisco State University

Eva Sheppard Wolf

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Self - Genealogist

Self - Head Researcher, Massachusetts Historical Society

Self - Researcher, New Orleans Public Library

Self - Civil War Historian, Mobile, Alabama

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Self - Kyra's Father

Henry Dwight Sedgwick

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Angela Warnick Buchdahl

Self - Historian, University of Memphis

Susan O'Donovan

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Delores Marsalis

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Courtney B. Vance

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Khandi Alexander

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Anna Deavere Smith

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Billie Jean King

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Patricia Arquette

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Julianna Margulies

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Neil Patrick Harris

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Sean 'Diddy' Combs

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Keenen Ivory Wayans

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Richard Branson

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Lidia Bastianich

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Sandra Cisneros

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Scarlett Johansson

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Christopher Walken

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William H. Macy

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Mary Steenburgen

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Carmelo Anthony

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Tonya Lewis Lee

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Charlayne Hunter-Gault

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Suzanne Malveaux

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Isabella Rossellini

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Sarah Silverman

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Anjelica Huston

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Felicity Huffman

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Michael Kenneth Williams

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George R.R. Martin

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Michael Strahan

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Christiane Amanpour

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Sheryl Sandberg

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Sigourney Weaver

Michael Scott

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Justina Machado

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Diane von Fürstenberg

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Narciso Rodríguez

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Francis Collins

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Shirley Ann Jackson

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Christopher Meloni

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Pharrell Williams

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Norah O'Donnell

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Gretchen Carlson

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Henry Louis Gates Sr.

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Leslie Odom Jr.

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André Leon Talley

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Joe Manganiello

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Tamera Mowry-Housley

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Michael Douglas

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Valerie Bertinelli

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Danielle Brooks

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Iliza Shlesinger

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Alanis Morissette

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Megan Robertson

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Before the popularity of AncestryDNA, journalist and cultural critic Henry Louis Gates, Jr. divulges the family trees of various celebrities, many times with stunning revelations.

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Director: N/A

Writer: N/A

Production: Kunhardt McGee Productions,Ark Media,Inkwell Films

Genre: documentary, biography, history

Year: 2012

MetaScore: N/A/100

ImdbRating: 8.7

BoxOffice:

Released: 25 Mar 2012

Awards: 2 nominations

Homepage: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/finding-your-roots/

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