Hazel Gurland-Pooler
Director
Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (2012)
Season 11
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.
Released March 24, 2012
Episode 59 min
12+
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: The Roku Channel, PBS, Hoopla, Pluto TV, Plex + 6 more, Plex Channel, 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
Languages:
English
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S11E1 - Larger Than Life
Research into the ancestry of singer Lea Salonga and actress Amanda Seyfried reveals relatives who survived heart-wrenching ordeals.
Jan. 7, 2025, midnight
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S11E2 - La Famiglia
Exploring the Italian roots of television host Joy Behar and actor Michael Imperioli.
Jan. 14, 2025, midnight
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S11E3 - Stranger Than Fiction
Traveling across China and the American South to reveal the ancestry of novelist Amy Tan and poet Rita Dove.
Jan. 21, 2025, midnight
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S11E4 - Dreamers One and All
Exploring the ancestry of actress Sharon Stone and model Chrissy Teigen includes travelling across Europe and Thailand.
Jan. 28, 2025, midnight
S11E5 - Family Recipes
Exploring the ancestry of chefs José Andrés and Sean Sherman.
Feb. 4, 2025, midnight
S11E6 - Latin Roots
Tracing the family trees of musician Rubén Blades and journalist Natalie Morales.
Feb. 11, 2025, midnight
S11E7 - The Ties That Bind
Actors Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard learn about their family histories, which includes stories of soldiers, settlers and criminals.
Feb. 18, 2025, midnight
S11E8 - The Butterfly Effect
Actresses Debra Messing and Melanie Lynskey explore the stories of their ancestors whose bold decisions reshaped their families.
Feb. 25, 2025, midnight
S11E9 - Moving on Up
Laurence Fishburne and Sheryl Lee Ralph learn about their family histories.
April 1, 2025, midnight
S11E10 - Finding My Roots
A solution to a mystery that has haunted the Gates family for generations is revealed.
April 8, 2025, midnight
Network: PBS
Episode Runtime: 59 min.
Season Runtime: 7080 min.
Released: March 24, 2012
Last Air Date: April 8, 2025, midnight
Next Air Date: Jan. 6, 2026, midnight
Status: Returning Series
Certification: TV-PG
Common sense age: 12+
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