Finding Your Roots
Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
2012, Series, 53 min, Biography, Documentary, History, English, United States, MoviePedia score 67
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.
Directed by Sabin Streeter, Krista Whetstone, Hazel Gurland, Jesse Sweet, Josh Gleason, Muriel Soenens, Jamila Wignot, Phil Bertelsen, Hannah Olson, Lindsey Megrue, Natalia Warchol
Cast
- Henry Louis Gates Jr. as Self
- CeCe Moore as Self - DNA
- Ava DuVernay as Self - Distant relative of America Ferrera
- Anita Hill as Self
- Ty Burrell as Self - Guest
- Kehinde Wiley as Self - Guest
- Cory Booker as Self
- Sally Field as Self
- Angela Bassett as Self
- Tina Fey as Self
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