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Finding Your Roots
| Website: | http://www.pbs.org/wnet/finding-your-roots/ |
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| Next Airing: | Tue, May 13th, 2025 at 7:00 PM on KUED-HD |
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Join Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr. to uncover the surprising ancestral stories of 28 cultural trailblazers with fascinating histories. The series ends with an exploration of how science and history can inspire the next generation.
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Far from Home
Henry Louis Gates maps the family trees of pop icon Cyndi Lauper and actors Jamie Chung and Danny Trejo, exploring records in Italy, Korea, and Mexico to uncover ancestors whose stories were lost when their families immigrated to America.
Next Airing: Tue, May 13th, 2025 at 7:00 PM on KUED-HD Length: 00:56:46 Usage rights: 1/24/2023 to 1/23/2027 -
Larger Than Life
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. introduces actors Lea Salonga and Amanda Seyfried to ancestors who are every bit as dramatic as the characters they've played on stage and screen, telling stories of relatives who survived heart-wrenching ordeals.
Next Airing: Tue, May 20th, 2025 at 7:00 PM on KUED-HD Length: 00:56:14 Usage rights: 1/7/2025 to 1/6/2031 -
Stranger Than Fiction
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. explores the family trees of two award-winning writers: novelist Amy Tan and poet Rita Dove - traveling across China and the American South to uncover long lost stories of the ancestors who inspired their work.
Next Airing: Tue, May 27th, 2025 at 7:00 PM on KUED-HD Length: 01:00:00 Usage rights: 1/7/2025 to 1/6/2031 -
Songs of the Past
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. accompanies Broadway stars Leslie Odom, Jr. and Nathan Lane as they meet a cast of inspiring ancestors hidden in the branches of their family trees.
Next Airing: Tue, Jun 10th, 2025 at 7:00 PM on KUED-HD Length: 00:54:45 Usage rights: 2/22/2022 to 2/21/2026 -
Secret Lives
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. uses DNA to help comedians Carol Burnett and Niecy Nash solve deep family mysteries.
Next Airing: Tue, Jun 24th, 2025 at 7:00 PM on KUED-HD Length: 00:56:46 Usage rights: 1/17/2023 to 1/16/2027 -
Fathers and Sons
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. meets actors LeVar Burton and Wes Studi two men who grew up without their fathers. With few clues to guide him, Gates introduces them to ancestors they've never known revealing connections to key moments in history.
Next Airing: Tue, Jul 1st, 2025 at 7:00 PM on KUED-HD Length: 00:56:46 Usage rights: 1/16/2024 to 1/15/2028 -
Buried Secrets
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. helps singer Sammy Hagar and actor Ed O'Neill uncover their roots, revealing secrets their ancestors went to great lengths to conceal and celebrating the virtue of accepting one's relatives, whoever they may be.
Next Airing: Tue, Jul 8th, 2025 at 7:00 PM on KUED-HD Length: 00:56:46 Usage rights: 1/23/2024 to 1/22/2028 -
Hold The Laughter
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. uncovers the roots of comedians Bob Odenkirk and Iliza Shlesinger two very funny people whose family trees brim with dramatic stories, introducing them to relatives who took great risks to overcame enormous hardships.
Next Airing: Tue, Jul 15th, 2025 at 7:00 PM on KUED-HD Length: 00:56:46 Usage rights: 1/30/2024 to 1/29/2028 -
Far and Away
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. explores the roots of journalist Sunny Hostin and actor Jesse Williams -- introducing them to ancestors from very diverse places.
Next Airing: Tue, Jul 22nd, 2025 at 7:00 PM on KUED-HD Length: 00:56:46 Usage rights: 2/6/2024 to 2/5/2028 -
Mean Streets
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. maps the family trees of comedian Tracy Morgan and actor Anthony Ramos -- taking the two New York City natives far from their hometown.
Next Airing: Tue, Jul 29th, 2025 at 7:00 PM on KUED-HD Length: 00:56:46 Usage rights: 2/20/2024 to 2/19/2028 -
Anchormen
Henry Louis Gates introduces trail-blazing journalists Jim Acosta and Van Jones to the ancestors who blazed a trail for them, meeting runaway slaves and immigrant settlers who took enormous chances so that their descendants might thrive.
Length: 00:56:46 Usage rights: 3/28/2023 to 3/27/2027 -
Children of Exile
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. retraces the ancestral journeys of David Chang and Raul Esparza, whose families fled their homelands, leading them to find lost parts of themselves along the way.
Length: 00:54:45 Usage rights: 1/4/2022 to 1/3/2026 -
Chosen
Henry Louis Gates helps actors David Duchovny and Richard Kind trace their roots from Jewish communities in Eastern Europe to the United States-telling stories of triumph and tragedy that laid the groundwork for his guest's success.
Length: 00:56:46 Usage rights: 2/14/2023 to 2/13/2027 -
Finding My Roots
Cutting-edge DNA detective work solves longstanding family mysteries for actor Laurence Fishburne and scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr. - in a unique and emotional episode where Gates finds himself as a guest on his own show for the first time.
Length: 00:55:31 Usage rights: 1/7/2025 to 1/6/2031 -
Forever Young
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. meets Valerie Bertinelli and Brendan Fraser two actors who found fame when they were young and lived their lives in the limelight, cut off from their roots. Each discovers ancestors who paved the way for their success.
Length: 00:56:46 Usage rights: 1/9/2024 to 1/8/2028 -
Moving On Up
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. explores the long-lost roots of actor Sheryl Lee Ralph and historian Lonnie Bunch - two African Americans whose ancestors broke boundaries and forged families as they moved from slavery to freedom.
Length: 00:56:15 Usage rights: 1/7/2025 to 1/6/2031 -
Out of the Past
Henry Louis Gates uncovers the lost roots of actors Billy Crudup and Tamera Mowry-Housley, traveling back generations to recount significant events in history - from the American Revolution to the journey of the Mayflower - in a deeply personal way.
Length: 00:56:46 Usage rights: 4/4/2023 to 4/3/2027