Hazel Gurland-Pooler
Director
Finding Your Roots (2012)
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.
Genres: Biography, Documentary, History
Keywords: tmdb.dna, tmdb.celebrity, tmdb.ancestry, mdblist.has-trailer, tmdb.genealogy, imdb.world-history, imdb.genetic-testing + 35 more, imdb.dna, imdb.nature-versus-nurture, imdb.slavery, imdb.holocaust, imdb.family-history, imdb.american-history, imdb.genealogy, imdb.jewish-american, imdb.family-tree, imdb.antisemitism, imdb.world-war-two, imdb.pogrom, imdb.antebellum-south, imdb.slave, imdb.census, imdb.immigrant, imdb.african-american, imdb.asian-american, imdb.american-civil-war, imdb.latino-american, imdb.family-secret, imdb.american, imdb.19th-century, imdb.melting-pot, imdb.great-britain, imdb.family-mystery, imdb.american-revolutionary-war, imdb.american-revolution, imdb.soldier, imdb.slave-owner, imdb.18th-century, imdb.professor, imdb.social-documentary, awards.emmy-award-nominated, imdb.history-documentary
Watch Providers: Amazon Prime Video, PBS, Hoopla, Pluto TV, Plex + 7 more, Plex Channel, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, PBS Documentaries Amazon Channel, PBS Living Amazon Channel, KQED, Thirteen, WETA+
Production Companies: Kunhardt McGee Productions, Ark Media, Inkwell Films
Network: PBS
Country: United States
Production Country:
United States
Languages:
English
Season 1
10 episodes
6.0
Season 2
10 episodes
Season 3
10 episodes
Season 4
10 episodes
Season 5
10 episodes
Season 6
16 episodes
Season 7
10 episodes
Season 8
10 episodes
8.0
Season 9
10 episodes
Season 10
10 episodes
1.0
Season 11
10 episodes
Season 12
4 episodes
Watch Trailer
PBS
7080 min
59 min/ep
March 24, 2012
Jan. 13, 2026, midnight
Jan. 20, 2026, midnight
Returning Series
TV-PG
12+
