Finding Your Roots

Season 6

Major corporate support for FINDING YOUR ROOTS WITH HENRY LOUIS GATES, JR., Season Six is provided by Ancestry, Johnson & Johnson and AT&T. Major support is also provided by the Ford Foundation, Candace King Weir, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and PBS.

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Finding Your Roots

Coming to America

S6 Ep16 | 52m 10s

Nancy Pelosi, Norah O’Donnell, and Zac Posen discover surprising roots.

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Coming to America

S6 Ep16 | 52m 10s

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Finding Your Roots

Breaking Silences

S6 Ep15 | 52m 10s

Gayle King, Jordan Peele, and Issa Rae discover surprising roots.

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Breaking Silences

S6 Ep15 | 52m 10s

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Flight

S6 Ep14 | 52m 40s

Scarlett Johansson, Lupita Nyong’o, and Lidia Bastianich discover surprising roots.

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Flight

S6 Ep14 | 52m 40s

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Finding Your Roots

War Stories

S6 Ep13 | 52m 40s

Julianne Moore, Bill Hader, and Kehinde Wiley discover surprising rates.

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War Stories

S6 Ep13 | 52m 40s

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Finding Your Roots

DNA Mysteries

S6 Ep12 | 52m 45s

Téa Leoni and Joe Madison discover surprising roots.

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DNA Mysteries

S6 Ep12 | 52m 45s

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Finding Your Roots

Fashion's Roots

S6 Ep11 | 52m 46s

Diane Von Furstenberg, Narciso Rodriguez, and RuPaul Charles discover surprising roots.

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Fashion's Roots

S6 Ep11 | 52m 46s

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Finding Your Roots

Criminal Kind

S6 Ep10 | 52m 16s

Laura Linney, Lisa Ling, and Soledad O’Brien discover surprising roots.

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Criminal Kind

S6 Ep10 | 52m 16s

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Finding Your Roots

Italian Roots

S6 Ep9 | 52m 41s

Jimmy Kimmel, Marisa Tomei, and John Turturro meet ancestors who made immense sacrifices.

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Italian Roots

S6 Ep9 | 52m 41s

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Slave Trade

S6 Ep8 | 52m 41s

Ava DuVernay, S. Epatha Merkerson, and Questlove discover unexpected family histories.

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Slave Trade

S6 Ep8 | 52m 41s

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Finding Your Roots

Science Pioneers

S6 Ep7 | 52m 41s

Francis Collins, Shirley Ann Jackson, and Harold E. Varmus learn their family histories.

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Science Pioneers

S6 Ep7 | 52m 41s

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Secrets & Lies

S6 Ep6 | 52m 11s

Sigourney Weaver, Justina Machado, and Amy Ryan unearth surprising family histories.

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Secrets & Lies

S6 Ep6 | 52m 11s

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Beyond the Pale

S6 Ep5 | 52m 41s

Jeff Goldblum, Terry Gross, and Marc Maron uncover unknown family histories.

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Beyond the Pale

S6 Ep5 | 52m 41s

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Finding Your Roots

This Land Is My Land

S6 Ep4 | 52m 41s

Queen Latifah and Jeffrey Wright discover unexpected family trees.

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This Land Is My Land

S6 Ep4 | 52m 41s

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Homecomings

S6 Ep3 | 52m 41s

Sterling K. Brown, Jon Batiste, and Shasheer Zamata learn their family histories.

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Homecomings

S6 Ep3 | 52m 41s

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Finding Your Roots

Off the Farm

S6 Ep2 | 52m 36s

Dr. Gates helps Melissa McCarthy and Eric Stonestreet answer family mysteries.

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Off the Farm

S6 Ep2 | 52m 36s

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Finding Your Roots

Hollywood Royalty

S6 Ep1 | 52m 41s

Anjelica Huston, Mia Farrow, and Isabella Rosselini learn their family histories.

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Hollywood Royalty

S6 Ep1 | 52m 41s

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