Hazel Gurland-Pooler
Director
Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (2012)
Season 4
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
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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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S4E6 - Black Like Me
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S4E7 - Children of the Revolution
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S4E9 - Southern Roots
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S4E10 - Funny Business
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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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