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Finding Your Roots

For more than a decade, renowned Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr. has helped to expand America’s sense of itself, stimulating a national conversation about identity with humor, wisdom, and compassion. Professor Gates has explored the ancestry of dozens of influential people from diverse backgrounds, taking millions of viewers deep into the past to reveal the connections that bind us all.
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Schedule

  • Finding Your Roots With Henry Louis Gates, Jr.: Out of the Past: TVSS: Iconic

    Finding Your Roots

    Out of the Past

    Friday
    Jul 17

    1 Hour

    Actors Billy Crudup and Tamera Mowry-Housley uncover their lost roots.
  • Finding Your Roots With Henry Louis Gates, Jr.: Out of the Past: TVSS: Iconic

    Finding Your Roots

    Out of the Past

    Sunday
    Jul 19

    1 Hour

    Actors Billy Crudup and Tamera Mowry-Housley uncover their lost roots.
  • Finding Your Roots With Henry Louis Gates, Jr.: Out of the Past: TVSS: Iconic

    Finding Your Roots

    Out of the Past

    Sunday
    Jul 19

    1 Hour

    Actors Billy Crudup and Tamera Mowry-Housley uncover their lost roots.
  • Finding Your Roots With Henry Louis Gates, Jr.: TVSS: Iconic

    Finding Your Roots

    Watchmen

    Sunday
    Jul 19

    1 Hour

    Regina King and Damon Lindelof discover their family trees.
  • Finding Your Roots With Henry Louis Gates, Jr.: Out of the Past: TVSS: Iconic

    Finding Your Roots

    Out of the Past

    Sunday
    Jul 19

    1 Hour

    Actors Billy Crudup and Tamera Mowry-Housley uncover their lost roots.
  • Finding Your Roots With Henry Louis Gates, Jr.: Out of the Past: TVSS: Iconic

    Finding Your Roots

    Out of the Past

    Monday
    Jul 20

    1 Hour

    Actors Billy Crudup and Tamera Mowry-Housley uncover their lost roots.
  • Finding Your Roots With Henry Louis Gates, Jr.: Out of the Past: TVSS: Iconic

    Finding Your Roots

    Out of the Past

    Monday
    Jul 20

    1 Hour

    Actors Billy Crudup and Tamera Mowry-Housley uncover their lost roots.
  • Finding Your Roots With Henry Louis Gates, Jr.: TVSS: Iconic

    Finding Your Roots

    Caribbean Roots

    Tuesday
    Jul 21

    1 Hour

    Exploring the Caribbean heritage of actors Liza Colón-Zayas and Delroy Lindo.
  • Finding Your Roots With Henry Louis Gates, Jr.: TVSS: Iconic

    Finding Your Roots

    Caribbean Roots

    Tuesday
    Jul 21

    1 Hour

    Exploring the Caribbean heritage of actors Liza Colón-Zayas and Delroy Lindo.
  • Finding Your Roots With Henry Louis Gates, Jr.: TVSS: Iconic

    Finding Your Roots

    Caribbean Roots

    Wednesday
    Jul 22

    1 Hour

    Exploring the Caribbean heritage of actors Liza Colón-Zayas and Delroy Lindo.
  • Finding Your Roots With Henry Louis Gates, Jr.: TVSS: Iconic

    Finding Your Roots

    Caribbean Roots

    Wednesday
    Jul 22

    1 Hour

    Exploring the Caribbean heritage of actors Liza Colón-Zayas and Delroy Lindo.
  • Finding Your Roots With Henry Louis Gates, Jr.: TVSS: Iconic

    Finding Your Roots

    Caribbean Roots

    Friday
    Jul 24

    1 Hour

    Exploring the Caribbean heritage of actors Liza Colón-Zayas and Delroy Lindo.
  • Finding Your Roots With Henry Louis Gates, Jr.: The Ties That Bind: TVSS: Iconic

    Finding Your Roots

    The Ties That Bind

    Saturday
    Jul 25

    1 Hour

    Actors Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard learn about their family histories, which includes stories of soldiers, settlers and criminals.
  • Finding Your Roots With Henry Louis Gates, Jr.: TVSS: Iconic

    Finding Your Roots

    Caribbean Roots

    Sunday
    Jul 26

    1 Hour

    Exploring the Caribbean heritage of actors Liza Colón-Zayas and Delroy Lindo.
  • Finding Your Roots With Henry Louis Gates, Jr.: TVSS: Iconic

    Finding Your Roots

    Caribbean Roots

    Sunday
    Jul 26

    1 Hour

    Exploring the Caribbean heritage of actors Liza Colón-Zayas and Delroy Lindo.
  • Finding Your Roots With Henry Louis Gates, Jr.: TVSS: Iconic

    Finding Your Roots

    Where Did We Come From?

    Sunday
    Jul 26

    1 Hour

    Three guests from diverse backgrounds -- Erin Burnett, Amy Carlson and André Leon Talley -- explore their ancestors.
  • Finding Your Roots With Henry Louis Gates, Jr.: TVSS: Iconic

    Finding Your Roots

    Caribbean Roots

    Sunday
    Jul 26

    1 Hour

    Exploring the Caribbean heritage of actors Liza Colón-Zayas and Delroy Lindo.
  • Finding Your Roots With Henry Louis Gates, Jr.: TVSS: Iconic

    Finding Your Roots

    Caribbean Roots

    Monday
    Jul 27

    1 Hour

    Exploring the Caribbean heritage of actors Liza Colón-Zayas and Delroy Lindo.
  • Finding Your Roots With Henry Louis Gates, Jr.: TVSS: Iconic

    Finding Your Roots

    Caribbean Roots

    Monday
    Jul 27

    1 Hour

    Exploring the Caribbean heritage of actors Liza Colón-Zayas and Delroy Lindo.
  • Finding Your Roots With Henry Louis Gates, Jr.: The Road We Took: TVSS: Iconic

    Finding Your Roots

    The Road We Took

    Tuesday
    Jul 28

    1 Hour

    Mapping the roots of actress Lizzy Caplan and comic Hasan Minhaj, moving from shtetls in Eastern Europe to farmlands in northern India.

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